Excerpt from The Poultry Book: A Treatise on Breeding and General Management of Domestic Fowls, With Numerous Original Descriptions, and Portraits From LifeIt is hoped that, prepared with such advantages, this book will serve to diffuse, more widely, reliable intelligence in respect to the very important subject of which it treats, and will prove a welcome acquisition to the libraries of practical men. It is not pretended that it is free from defects but its imperfections, such as they are, must be attributed to other causes than negligence, or the absence of an honest design to furnish a manual of pres ent. Interest and permanent utility.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.