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five hundred copies of the " New Ensland Poultry- 

 BrjIEDER," illustrated with twenty -five correct engrav- 

 ings of iny choice, magnificent, superb, unapproachable, 

 pure-bred fowls. 



This book had an extraordinary sale, — far beyOnd my 

 own calculations, certainly. I got it out for the purpose 

 of "doing justice" to my own stock, and calculated that 

 it would prove a good advertising medium for me, — which it 

 did, by the way. But the demand for the " New England 

 Poultry-Breeder " was immense. And thirteen different 

 editions (varying from three thousand five hundred to one 

 thousand copies each) were issued within as many weeks, 

 and were sold, every copy of them. This is the true his- 

 tory of the " New England Poultry-Breeder." 



By and by Dr. Bennett's book appeared. The market 

 was now glutted with this kind of thing, and this work, 

 though a good one, generally, dragged on the hands of its 

 originators. I doubt if a thousand copies of this book 

 ever found their way into the market, the author being too 

 deeply engrossed with his then thriving trade, to trouble 

 himself about urging the sale of his book, or of thinking 

 about the interests of his pubhshers. 



