Excerpt from Practical Poultry Culture: A Concise and Practical Treatise on the Management of Poultry for ProfitThis little book is intended for those who are about to embark on the troubled seas of poultry raising, or those who wish to gain new ideas on the subject. It is just a plain, practical poultry book, giving the natural and artificial methods of raising, together with some, I trust, helpful hints all along the road.I have tried to give, in concise form, what knowledge I have gained from observation and personal work during the past fourteen years. I am indebted to the poultry press for many ideas which I have tested and found reliable.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.