Excerpt from Practical Poultry Breeder and Feeder, or How to Make Poultry Pay In sending forth previous editions I have thanked all those who had not only read the book, but who had brought into practical use the many hints it contained, and who also had not been slow to confess honestly that the birds who for so long had been maligned and deemed unprofitable servants to mankind, were not so much to blame as those who by wrong treatment, carelessness, and indifference to the welfare of their birds, of course, rendered their lives miserable, and the good results that should have been gained as impossible of achievement as anything this course of conduct produces in things men have to do with. 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.