IV PREFACE 



the preacher style and says that his hearers should 

 or must do thus and so. The fact that what he 

 writes about has been or is being done is evidence 

 that cannot be set aside. For this reason the author 

 has endeavored to present his subject from the 

 results standpoint. With the conviction, therefore, 

 that application of the principles herein laid down 

 will make farm poultry production far more profit- 

 able than it at presen.t is, the author commends 

 these pages to the thinking farmers, farmers' wives 

 and farmers' children. 



M. G. KAINS. 

 New York, October i, 1910. 



