THE TRUTH ABOUT POULTRY. 
A FRIENDLY TALK THAT MAY SERVE AS 
AN INTRODUCTION. 
] AM not a novice in the poultry business. As an 
apprentice I have served long and faithfully, 
but Iam an apprentice, a iearner, still, and expect 
to be one as long as I live. My interest in poultry 
is about as oldasmy memory. I was not yet in my 
teens when I made my first practical experiment in 
chicken raising, by inducing a pair of fancy pigeons 
to adopt an ordinary hen’s egg for hatching in place 
of their own two little eggs. Well do I remember 
the pleasurable excitement that thrilled 
Pret Al and throbbed all through my whole 
being when I found the little chick try- 
ing to get out of the shell, and how I had to run to 
tell my mother, all aglow with pride and joy. Then 
how I watched, fed and petted the little motherless 
thing for a few days, until an unlucky accident 
