The object of this little work is purely practical; its aim is to
place in the hands of persons who may not have had much experience,
a book which should contain all that is most essential to be known
respecting the housing, feeding, breeding, and treatment of fowls;
and to this has been added such information as the experience of
the author has enabled him to give respecting the most profitable
varieties viewed as agricultural stock.
_August, 1853._