Excerpt from A Manual on Poultry One of the secrets of the success of French agriculture is the attention bestowed upon the small industries of the farm, and one of the principal obstacles to successful agriculture in the Southern States is the neglect of these industries. The dairy, garden, poultry yard, apiary, and fish ponds, should, not only contribute largely to the food supply of the family but should, by the sale of surplus products, materially supplement the princi pal sources of income of the farm. The hope that the information conveyed in this little work may induce the bestowal of more and better attention upon the important industry of which it treats, and thus increase the health, pleasure, profit and comfort of the families of Georgia, induces its publication. 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.