IV 
PREFACE. 
profitable Poultry keeping. The most approved modes of fattening as followed in 
England, are given in the chapter on Dorkings; and the methods that are adopted 
in France to produce the splendid fat capons and poulardes of the Paris fat 
poultry Shows, are described at length in the chapter on French Fowls. 
The illustrations, which are -from the pencil of Mr. Harrison Weir, speak for 
themselves. No work so fully and profusely illustrated has previously been 
published on the subject. 
The Publisher and Editor have to acknowledge their obligations to the 
Proprietors of the Illustrdtecl London News and the Field for the permission 
kindly accorded them to reproduce many of the woodcuts which are dispersed 
throughout the volume. 
