INTRODUCTORY 



Just a few words here, in the way of introduction, 

 to those who have never heard of me or of my new 

 methods. I was born a poultryman, as my father be- 

 fore me bred fancy stock all his life. So, from a small 

 boy, I gathered the eggs, took charge of the poultry, 

 exhibited at the county shows and had birds of my 

 own when a small boy. I have bred fancy stock all 

 my life and tried the Winter Broiler business with 

 fatal results, as hundreds of others have done. I have 

 gathered up and buried and burnt enough chicks in my 

 lifetime to make me a millionaire, and hundreds of 

 others have done the same. 



This led me to experimenting and also studying 

 nature to see if there was not a way in which they 

 could be raised on a large scale without any loss. The 

 result is, at last, I have solved the problei^ and I have 

 put off printing this book until March, 1906, to know 

 I was positively right before going ahead. I now 

 have 1,000 chicks in the same brooder house where 

 last year fully 60 per cent of all chicks died. Result, 

 not losing over 3 per cent of chicks put out, and a 

 healthier, rugged lot of chicks I defy anyone to show, 

 and 80 per cent of their feed is processed oats at a cost 

 of not over ten cents a bushel. 



Follow my methods laid down in this book and 

 success is certain. Read every line carefully. You 

 cannot go wrong, and a fortune awaits the first in the 

 field. 



Very truly yours, 



EDGAR BRIGGS, 



Publisher. 



