This little book is intended to heIp farmers and villagers conduct the poultry business with pleasure and profit. Its teachings are not drawn from the authors consciousnss exclusively, but from practical experience, study and observation. I have been successful in the business myself, not as a fancier, but as a farmer, a fact which I do not attribute to my own ability entirely, but partly to the help derived from the stimulating and restraining influence of my good wife Harriet, and to Martha, the industrious and vigilant spouse of our faithful Tim. A good deal of what I know and have written has really been derived from a diligent perusal of the Farm Journal, and I confess to havng borrowed considerably from its pages both in text and illastration. Credit must therefore be given in a comprehensive way to the Poultry Editor of that publication, whose discerning mind and great experience with poultry have received the widest recognition by all interested in the poultry industry. I...