The Poultry Keeper's Companion (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Poultry Keeper's CompanionIf we were to look back on the past fifteen years and take a passing glance at the phases through which poultry-farming has passed during that period, we should find that the vicissitudes of its progress have been punctuated more by disaster than success. It is scarcely necessary to disinter the sad memory of lost capital and - in some cases - wrecked lives, so as to impress upon the beginner to-day the useful, if severe, lessons of the past. It will be enough for our purpose here to know that the old "poultry-farming, " which sent people crazy and led them like a "Will-o'-the-wisp" to certain doom, has had its day.Poultry-Farming As A Sole Pursuit.- The system, or rather the belief, that money could be made by keeping poultry on a large scale, on land hired expressly for that purpose, has been found utterly false, and volumes might be filled with the details of how people have lost their all in rash enterprises of this kind. But not one single instance of a poultry farm of a purely utility kind having succeeded for more than two or three years at the most can be recalled.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.