INTRODUCTORY 
HE object of this volume is to furnish 
reliable and practical information on the 
profitable care and management of poul- 
try. I have endeavored to take the reader, presum- 
ably a beginner, into the field of practical poultry 
work, telling him what to do, and how and when 
to do it. 
I have catered especially to those who desire to 
keep only a small flock of fowls for pleasure or 
profit, but most of the matter contained herein will 
also apply to poultry keeping on a more extensive 
scale. 
’ In order to make this treatise as brief and yet as 
comprehensive as possible, everything of a theoreti- 
cal or imaginative nature has been omitted, as well 
as all unnecessary things. I have made use of only 
valuable and practical facts, which are the result 
of my personal experience in the handling of fowls 
on both a large and a small scale. This is, essen- 
tially, a business book for busy people. 
R. B. SANDO. 
PotspaM, OHIo, 1908. 
