8 BIGGI<3 FOUI/i'RY BOOK. 



have received the voidest recognition by all interested 

 iri tne pou ID y industry. I could do nothing better 

 than to draw largely upon him, augmenting his prac- 

 tical information with trimmings from my own obser- 

 vation and experience, and with suggestions from the 

 women folks and from Tim. 



Great pains have been taken with the illustrations, 

 and those having charge of this feature of the book 

 deserve much praise for the skill, taste and originality 

 displayed. They certainly have done well. The beau- 

 tiful and life-like pictures set off the book in fine 

 style and raise it far above the level of the common- 

 place. 



The paintings for the colored prints were made 

 from life from birds in the yards of breeders or on 

 exhibition at the poultry shows, by L,ouis P. Graham, 

 an artist possessing a high order of talent in depicting 

 fowls of all breeds in their correct forms and colors. 

 They are as true to nature and the ideal bird as it is 

 possible to make them. 



A pound of eggs or a pound of poultry can be 

 raised as cheaply as a pound of beef or mutton. 

 Poultry sells at home for nearly twice the price per 

 pound you get for beef and mutton on the hoof. 

 Eggs sell for more than twice the price per pound on 

 the farm that the city butcher gets for the dressed 

 carcasses of the animals he sells. 



, I have not written this book for the poultry 

 fancier, although that valued person will find many 

 points of interest in it, but for the practical farm or 

 village man or woman who raises poultry and eggs for 

 market, whose flock is one of the many sources by 



