Practical Poultry Breeder and Feeder Or How to Make Poultry Pay (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Practical Poultry Breeder and Feeder: Or How to Make Poultry Pay The first paper which was published for the guidance of the infinitesimal percentage of the population who took even a slight interest in fowls appeared twenty-four years ago, and it was in'that paper that the first newspaper work of the late William Cook - who wrote the leading articles for it for a period of thirteen years - was published. Seeing the need after three years, on account of the great awakening of land owners to the possibilities of poultry-keeping for farmers and cottagers as an industry and for themselves as an interesting hobby, The Poultry Journal was published, and in the twenty-one years during which it has made its monthly appearance, many thousands have succumbed to the poultry mania and become enthusiastic readers of the advice there circulated, and it has been admitted by all that the res'ults obtained have been largely composed of pleasure and profit. That the number of poultry-keepers is increasing rapidly we have daily proof, and when we see the various articles dealing with the subject of fowl-keeping in social and art journals, in addition to those papers the object of whose proprietors is to reach the agricultural community, we realise the im portance of the interests now allied to the domestic fowl. This industry, which is manifestly important gives pleasur able occupation to those in all walks of life, and we are thankful that our publications have stood the test of the progress of time; and, in spite of the appearance of many similar works, the demand for them has proceeded apace, so that the necessity for this new edition has arisen long before we anticipated its publication. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.