PREFACE 
AY along the shores of poultrydom 
are strewn the wrecks of poultrymen 
who have gone into the business without 
proper knowledge of it or adequate expe- 
rience to justify them in expecting suc- 
cess. 
Every year finds a new army of 
recruits going, headlong, into the busi- 
ness, without knowledge or experience, 
with the expectation of making a fortune, 
a competency, or at least an easy living, 
all, or nearly all, to be wrecked along 
those inhospitable shores. 
Why so many people think they can 
succeed in the poultry business, without 
experience or knowledge of it, is a mys- 
tery. The same people would not think 
of entering any other business without 
first gaining a thorough knowledge of it, 
and as thorough a knowledge is as neces- 
sary in the poultry business as in any 
other business you can enter. 
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