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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 fan- 

 cier, 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 man}- sources by 

 which the income of the farm or village acre is in- 

 creased with but a trifling money outlay, and with but 

 little extra care and work. As in every other branch 

 of farm production, however, poultry always responds 

 quickly to any extra effort and thought put into it, and 

 there are hundreds of farms to-day where the poultry 

 yard yields more read}^ cash than any other department. 



This book is small in measure ; I could have 

 doubled the size easily, but it would have been thinner 

 and not any better, at least so it seems to me, and 

 Harriet agrees. Should this be your verdict, gentle 

 reader, I shall be content. 



Jacob Bigglk. 



F,lmwood, 1895. 



