PREFACE. 



By Me. Charles Edwabd Beooke, 



Past-Master of the Worship fid PouUers' Company of London. 



As a Past-Master of the Poulters' Company of 

 London, I very willingly accepted the proffered 

 opportunity of glancing through the following pages, 

 while they were still in manuscript form, and it 

 appears to me, albeit a work necessarily dealing with 

 theory as much as with experience, to be an exceed- 

 ingly useful and suggestive treatise on the pre- 

 eminently practical question of fattening table poultry 

 for the market. 



I am now asked to give my own views, and with 

 that request I readily comply, in the hope that these 

 remarks may be accepted as a friendly send-off to a 

 book which 1 regard as a welcome addition to our 

 literature on this subject. The author, divesting him- 

 self as far as may be of mere theory, has diligently, 

 and in a thorough-going spirit, set himself the task of 

 solving many difficult problems which have often 

 puzzled the less initiated. He has very properly 



