PREFACE 



NO doubt the experts whose eyes chance to 

 fall on this book will say that it is ele- 

 mentary. It is, and purposely so. It is 

 designed first and last for the amateur who has no 

 time or inclination to read technical and semi-tech- 

 nical books on poultry keeping. It aims to tell the 

 man with a few hens what to do and how to do it. 

 There are certain statements with which some poul- 

 try keepers will disagree. We may look for the 

 millennium when the men who keep hens come to 

 be of one mind as to the management of them. 

 However, no pet theory has been put forward or 

 new system advocated. What has been written is 

 based largely on personal experience and what has 

 been learned in visits to many poultry plants, large 

 and small, in different parts of the country. It is 

 sent out with the hope that some amateurs may find 

 in it a suggestion or two which will help them to 

 get more eggs with less expense and have more fun 

 doing it. 



