National Agricultural Library

Essentials of Successful Poultry Keeping

American Publishing Company. Chicago, IL

Everybody who has followed the development of the poultry interests in this country during the past few years knows that we have made wonderful progress in our knowledge and methods of caring for these profit producing animals.

This work has been taken up and carried on by both state and private parties and the results of these researches have given us a great mass of reading matter which is difficult for the beginner to analize and understand; because the same results have been arrived at in so many different ways.

With a hope of classifying these various conclusions and pointing out the fallacy or showing how impractical some of these theories really are under our present average condition, I have undertaken to produce this book.

I do not assume infallability in this subject but having followed poultry keeping from my childhood and having made some success in breeding and exhibiting various varieties of bantams — the most artificial and difficult of all the kinds of fowls to rear — and having been compelled to read and study many authors and confer with many practical men in order to make any progress in this art, I assume this task with confidence.