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TABIxK AKD MARKKT 



VERSUS 



FAKCY FOWIxS. 



WITH AN EXPOSITION OF THE 



FALLACIES OF POULTRY FARMING. 



By W. B. TEGETMEIER, F.Z S., 



Author of *^ Profitable PovUl'y ;" '* The Poultry Book;" ^^ Poultry" in the ^^ Eneydopoedia Britanniha; 

 " The Modern Breeds of Poultry," in '* The Ibis," 1890 ; " Farm Poultry," in the Journals of Royal 

 Agricultural Society, 1890, tite Bath and West of England Society, and the Yorkshire 

 Agricultural Society. Editor of the Poultry Department of the *^ Field;" Davis 

 Lecturer to the Zoological Society; Lecturer to the Agricultural Institute, 

 South Kensington Museum; one of the Judges at the Royal Agricul- 

 tural, Bath and West of England, the Birmingham, Crystal 

 Palace, Dairy Shoiv, and other Exhibitions. 



London : HOEACB COX, Windscr House, Bream's Buildings, E.G. 



NOTICES OF THE FIRST EDITION. 



Daily Telegraph, Feb. 4, 1892. 

 So many people are a lured by works which promise them a handsome competence 

 if they will only take to providing table fowls and eggs near some large centre of 

 population that Mr. Tegetmeier is doing a public service in calling attention to the 

 usually delusive nature of all such assurances. ... It evidently behoves the 

 authorities of poultry shows to reconsider their ways, and the would-be poultry 

 farmer must take warning and see that that way ruination lies. It is of no use to try 

 to compete with the foreigner without a preliminary understanding of how it is that 

 the foreigner can rear pouliry for next to nothing. ' 



Morning Post, Feb. 24. 



A remarkably practical and sensible book. The author, who has had a long and 

 varied experience, ridicules the idea of endeavouring to breed fowls for useful and 

 economic purposes on the principles adopted by the fancier and exhibitor. He 

 explains what kind of poultry will be found the most profitable, and how they should 

 be reared and managed. The chapter on the " Fallacies sf Poultry Farming " is a 

 most valuable one. 



Daily Graphic, Feb. 19. 



Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier is possibly better entitled than anyone else to a hearing on 

 the subject of poultry, and a little book with which he has just come before the world 

 is from every point of view most valuable. His aim in the work before us is to 

 increase the quantity of marketable poultry and the quantity of eggs produced in 



