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PKEFACE. 
bees or of poultry, will find in this work hints and instruction 
of the most valuable kind, and which, if properly observed, 
will save to him in a single year many times the cost of this 
volume, in the economy of feeding, and in the increased value 
to him of the products of the animals kept. 
It is intended to be a hand-book, in which can at any time 
be found the practical directions of men of the largest expe- 
rience and of the closest observation in its several departments. 
Such a work it is believed cannot fail of being equally accept- 
able and useful to a large class of readers in every section of 
the country. 
