INTRODUCTION. 



Are you a utilitarian? Eejoice in such an 

 increase of the people's food. 



Are you a philanthropist? Be grateful that 

 yours has been the privilege to afford a possible 

 pleasure to the poor man, to whom so many are 

 impossible. Such we often find fond of poultry 

 — no mean judges of it, and frequently success- 

 ful in exhibition. A poor man's pleasure in 

 victory is at least as great as that of his richer 

 brother. Let him, then, have the field whereon 

 to fight for it. Encourage village poultry 

 shows, not- only by your patronage, but also 

 by your presence. A taste for such may save 

 many from dissipation, and much evil ; no man 

 can win poultry honours and haunt the tap- 

 room too. 



Por myself, I can truly say that, during the 

 time I have reared poultry, I have ever found 

 the pursuit to be " a labour of love," and (like 

 virtue) "its own reward." I feel that, though 



