Excerpt from Poultry: Their Varieties, Classification, Exhibiting, Treatment, Breeding, Rearing, Housing, Diseases, and General Management It must not be thought that I am disposed to regard the work of fanciers as being entirely hurtful to the economic qualities of our various races of domestic poultry; on the contrary, I am firmly convinced that with a few exceptions this work has been most beneficial. New breeds have been introduced, the world has been scoured for fresh varieties, and many of the breeds which thirty years ago were simply local, and whose characteristics were not very well defined, have been improved, and types embodying the qualities have been fixed. But for the efforts of fanciers our races of domestic poultry would be comparatively few, and many varieties which are now amongst our most valuable fowls would be unknown, or if known would be unattractive. Attractiveness is a great factor in all such considerations. 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.
