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prowess. The essential features of this so-called 

 Corning system are embraced in the present volume. 

 The system, as has been said, has proved highly 

 satisfactory with a large number of poultrymen, and 

 while the figure of nearly $6.50 annual earnings for 

 a hen may seem exceedingly high to poultry 

 raisers, especially in the Western states, yet where 

 a poultry 3^ard is so favorably situated with respect 

 to market as that of the Coming's, and where the 

 eggs produced by hens specially selected, accord- 

 ing to the Gowell method are managed in a rational 

 way and the eggs sold at an annual average of 

 nearly 50 cents a dozen, it may be readily seen that 

 money returns would probably be exceedingly high. 

 This is the very point that the present volume seeks 

 to emphasize ; namely, that good breeding, good 

 management and business marketing will enable 

 the poultry raiser to make far more money out of 

 his poultry than by keeping scrub hens in a hap- 

 hazard way and marketing in slipshod manner. 



Another very widely advertised system has been 

 prominently before the poultry world for the last 

 few years. Its object is to raise a far larger num- 

 ber of fowls on a given space than has been possible 

 by any other system. The plan is to keep the 

 chicks in confinement and force their precocious 

 development, especially for the meat market. The 

 system does not seem more humane than the prac- 

 tice of feeding geese to produce pate dc foie gras. 

 Doubtless many people have succeeded with this 

 system, and the present writer does not desire to 

 sit in judgment upon them. He believes that it is 

 everyone's privilege to appeal to his own conscience 

 as to what is right and wrong, humane or the 

 reverse. 



