Excerpt from The Poultry-Keeper's Manual: Containing Descriptions of All Kinds of Domestic Poultry, With Instructions for Their Management, and Their Treatment When Diseased But few introductory words are needed. Numerous inquiries for an easily consulted work on Poultry, having coloured portraits of the varieties, showed that such a publication was needed. This, combined with the abundance of communications in our possession from most of the best authorities on Poultry-keeping, induced us to prepare the present volume. Its contents, therefore, commend it to all who require such a book for reference. The Editors had no other labour than that of selection and arrangement. 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.