INTKODUOTION" 



Commercial Egg Farming is essentially a 

 a story of first-hand experience and success. 

 It is not dogmatic and is notably free from 

 hobbies. It simply recounts facts as they 

 have occurred. There may be other ways 

 that will succeed but these ways did succeed. 

 And they have succeeded for several people. 



The principles set forth in this little 

 volume are as true in America as in England. 

 Its wide circulation cannot but react to the 

 advantage of the poultry industry as a whole, 

 though it should be kept constantly in mind 

 that the distances are greater in America 

 than in England, and that being near a good 

 market is a point of first importance. 



In preparing this edition for American 

 readers I have done little beyond expressing 

 costs in terms of American instead of Eng- 

 lish money. The story remains substantially 

 as Mr. Hanson wrote it. 



William A. Lippincott. 



Kansas State Agricultural College, 

 Nov. 1, 1917. 



