PREFACE 



TO THE ENGLISH EDITION 



IN writing this essay on poultry breeding, I have 

 endeavored to avoid all technical expressions and the 

 usual verbiage to swell a book. Neither have I touched 

 upon topics which have no immediate concern with the 

 subject matter, but I have confined myself exclusively 

 to giving publicity to such facts as I have proved by 

 actual experience; and I firmly believe that this treatise 

 on poultry breeding, in a purely commercial point of 

 view, is the only one ever published, in this or any 

 other country, from which the public can learn how to 

 enter upon a highly profitable and pleasing undertaking, 

 and this without having to pay the usual heavy penal- 

 ties of experimenting. I must, however, caution the 

 reader not to be startled by the novel plan of hatching, 

 rearing, and fattening poultry which I advocate, and 

 of which they cannot find corroboration in any other 

 book ; and I advise them, before criticising the prin- 

 ciples herein put forth, to well weigh all that is stated, 

 when I doubt not that every one will admit that the 

 principles are logical and based upon sound sanitary 



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