National Agricultural Library

How to Feed Fowls

A Treatise on the Proper Foods for Poultry, From the Shell to Maturity, For Laying or Breeding Stock, and for Exhibition or Market Purposes. The Kind, Quality, and Amount Fully Described

To know what to feed, and how, and what quantity, is very important to every one who keeps livestock of any kind, especially poultry. A wrong practice in this respect may not only prevent profit, but result in down-right loss. Realizing the importance of the subject, and the convenience of a hand-book containing all the results of experiment, and all the recorded facts, we have gathered the material in this form, and now present to the fancier, farmer, and market poulterer, the results of our labor, believing that we have "left no stone unturned," and that nothing remains for another man to say about poultry feeding.

There may be new experiments, or new articles of food ; but it has been our endeavor to make a book, exhaustive of the subject, a book that would satisfy the reader and fill the demand of the times, so that all known facts in regard to feeding might be grasped quickly, by any one, even the person just commencing to breed poultry.

The rapidity with which our books on specialties have sold, has encouraged us to make further effort. Whether we feed lambs or chickens, or write books to satisfy an imperative demand, let us do with our might what our hands find to do.