National Agricultural Library

How to Make Poultry Keeping Pay

Many times every year those who have done business with me from year to year have asked why I did not write a book telling how to make poultry as profitable as possible. I have always felt that I should wait to do this until I had learned more of the secrets of success with poultry, but I find that if I were to wait until I knew everything that might be learned I would never get a book on the subject written.

After giving the matter considerable thought I concluded that I might be able to write a little book telling how to make money out of poultry and how to avoid the mistakes which wreck the hopes of the beginner so often.

With this in view I present in this little volume in its most condensed form what I have learned the many years that I have been breeding high-class poultry. Some of the methods which I give are my own and have never before been published; other methods are those which I did not originate but which I have used with benefit.

The object in writing this book has been to set down in the plainest and most easily understood language every essential fact which might help the beginner to get the greatest possible profits from his poultry.

I believe I may say truly that with this book as a guide any one interested in poultry will be able to conduct the poultry business with success.

I have not attempted to do fine writing but to write so plainly that any one who can read can understand and I offer this book in the hope that it may help the beginner over hard places and the expert poultryman in some of the difficulties he meets with.

I have been a poultry breeder since my boyhood and this book contains the things I have learned by actual, practical experience in the poultry yard.