Excerpt from The Poultry Book: A Treatise on Breeding and General Management of Domestic Fowls, With Numerous Original Descriptions, and Portraits From Life

Tms work owes its origin to the request or advice of some of the most distinguished Poultry Breeders and Fanciers in this country. Among these may be mentioned, John Giles, Esq., of Providence, for many years a judge of the American Institute, and widely known as an importer and breeder of Fowls, James Pedder, Esq. Editor of the Boston Cultivator, distinguished in Europe and America as authority in all matters of Rural Econ omy, Wm. Buckminster, Esq., and Wm. J. Buckminster, Esq., editors of the Massachusetts Ploughman names of celebrity in the same department, and Edward P. Roberts, Esq., the popa lar editor of the American Farmer, of Baltimore.

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