PREFACE. 
Tus short treatise on one of the most utilitarian breeds is written 
with the hope that it may be found useful not only to fanciers, but 
also to those breeders and rearers of poultry for commercial purposes, 
and that by producing a finer quality of table poultry, a share at 
least of the ever-increasing sum handed over each year to foreign 
countries for poultry and game, amounting last year to £500,000, 
may be retained in this country, fully believing that the great problem 
how to secure this is not by having large poultry farms, but by the 
many small holders each keeping afew, adopting thereby the French 
system, 
I tender my sincere thanks to Mr. Ludlow for his admirable plate 
of Indian Game, and also to those other gentlemen, whose names are 
inserted, for their valuable information. 
GHO, T. WHITPIOED. 
Colebridge, Gloucester. 
March, 1892. 
