PREFACE 
This little book has been written for the. 
encouragement, as well as the warning of 
those persons, who starting in a small way, 
desire to make a living from chickens. I 
have ‘“‘no axe to grind’: no blooded stock or 
hatching eggs for sale, nor day-old chicks to 
dispose of. My business is the production 
and marketing of table eggs and poultry. 
Consequently I have no reason either to ex- 
‘aggerate the pleasant features or to withhold 
any unpleasant truths. The contents of this 
book are plain, unvarnished facts as I have 
met them. They are given for what they 
are worth to those desirous of building up a 
little plant of 1,000 or so hens. 
H. W. BROWN, 
Mountain View Poultry Farm. 
Saugerties, N. Y. 
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