Excerpt from How to Make Poultry Pay: A Practical ManualThe poultry rearing industry ought to be one of the most profitable. Branches of agriculture in the British Isles, but, owing. Chiefly to the lack of definite and accurate information on the subject, poultry rearing does not pay.In order to ascertain whether poultry farming could or could not be made to pay, I devoted several months in 1902 to a close practical examination of the methods in vogue in most of the South of England counties.After a thoroughly practical investigation I came to the conclusion that poultry farming could not be -made to pay if conducted by the methods taught by the Agricultural Colleges and Experimental Farms.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.