Excerpt from Don't Kill the Laying Hen: A Book Describing and Explaining the Potter System of Selecting Laying and Non-Laying Hens, Also Recording and Illustrating His Investigations and Discoveries Concerning the Diseases of the Egg-Producing Organs My first booklet, entitled Don't Kill the Laying Hen, was made short and concise, so it might be easily understood. Many important points were intentionally omitted pending further investigations, as I did not want to advance any theories until I had carefully tried them out myself. After two years of almost constant observation of my own flock, and after collecting the specimens which are shown herein, I feel sure that poultry keepers will not only gain some new points from this book, but will also see reasons for many actions in their hens which they have noticed, and hence will be ready to accept what I have to offer. I do not pretend to give in this book a complete treatise on the care of fowls; but simply aim to give an account of my discoveries in regard to egg formation and development. There is yet much to learn about the hen, and I hope that every purchaser of this book will join me in studying how to eliminate the non-laying hen, which will most certainly increase our poultry profits. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
