Practical Poultry Breeder and Feeder, or How to Make Poultry Pay

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How to make Poultry Pay (W. Cook). - This is a useful handbook for persons with limited space who wish to keep a few profitable fowls, and have no practical experience to guide them either in selection or management. The old-fashioned notion that eggs must cost 6d. each to the person who only kept half-a-dozen fowls has long since been exploded, and the author of this handbook enforces the well-proved fact that no household is too small to be incapable of furnishing scraps and refuse upon which a few fowls can be mainly kept, thus converting worthless matter into profitable delicacies. Of the book, as a literary production, we would rather say nothing; but of its practical value we, as old poultry-farmers, can and do bear willing witness. - Bromley Telegraph.
Practical Poultry Breeder and Feeder; or How to make Poultry Pay (by William Cook). - The idea of likening poultry unto machines for converting waste and worthless matter into very good and profitable delicacies is a happy one, and the author explains it very thoroughly. With little labour and attention, fowls may be kept so as to yield a good return; but there are conditions which must be observed, and these are simply and plainly laid down by the author, who is the most careful instructor we have met with for a very long time. - Daily Chronicle, October 10, 1882.
Practical Poultry Breeder and Feeder; or, How to make Poultry Pay (by William Cook. London: Journal of Horticulture office, 121, Fleetstreet). - This book explains in very simple language all that one needs to know about fowls, and we are perfectly sure none who follow the plain instructions given will fail to keep poultry at a profit. The book has also a very complete index. - Glasgow News, November, 18, 1882.
Cook's Practical Poultry Breeder and Feeder Journal of Horticulture). - Mr. Cook says that poultry may be likened to machines for converting waste and worthless things into good and profitable delicacies. Much good poultry food is, no doubt, thrown into the hog-tub, or otherwise wasted. How to turn many things to account may be found in Mr. Cook's valuable manual, which is full of practical knowledge of all kinds of fowls and their management. Poultry breeding and keeping not only may be, but it is profitable when carried but on the system recommended by Mr. Cook. - Land and Water, November 4, 1882.

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