INTRODUCTION 



|HIS BOOK will help the experts. It is also intended 

 for those who are about to go into the Poultry busi- 

 ness as a business on a large or small scale, and for 

 hatching and raising 1 by incubators and brooders for market 

 purposes. 



All Poultry breeders have followed a few experts on 

 Poultry and 999 out of every 1,000 failed who followed those 

 so-called experts. Why? Because they really did not know 

 how to instruct the breeders. They themselves could not 

 prevent diseases, could not hatch or raise enough to make it 

 pay. Not one of the experts, professors, doctors or writers 

 of Poultry, etc. , made it a special study for fifteen years. 



I honestly believe that all experts tried their best, and 

 did not intend to mislead anyone who went into the busi- 

 ness. Not one in fifty who have written books on Poultry 

 and who have written articles in Poultry papers were prac- 

 tical and experienced on a large scale. They have tried it 

 in a small way in their back yards, raising fifty to 100 chicks 

 very year, and what they did raise, I dare say were not free 

 from disease, nor did they raise half what they hatched. 



There are really only about fifty large breeders who 

 raise 5,000 Ducks and Poultry every year. These make it 

 pay by hard work and at a great expense. If the whole 

 truth were known not half of these fifty can raise over half 

 what they hatch. This is a great loss to breeders and this 

 is the cause of so many failures. 



I have bred the so-called Standard Pure Blooded Poul- 

 try for many years, and side by side raised common Poultry 

 hatched and raised by hens and also by incubators and 

 brooders. I found that the common every day stock are 

 more hardy, stand more exposure than the fine bred stock. 



But, the pure standard fowls can be made just as hardy 

 as any fowls on earth if you only know how, and not one in 

 10,000 knows how. 



