Excerpt from A Treatise on the History and Management of Ornamental and Domestic Poultry But a student is. Sometimes the best teacher of any branch Of knowledge, as far as he has himself advanced in it, because he has a fresh recollection of the ques tions which gave him the most trouble to solve; and therefore notes were made, mentally, and on paper, from time to time. It was afterwards encouragingly sug gested that the publication Of them might be ventured upon, as being possibly acceptable to people requiring such information. They were offered to the editor of the Gardener's Chronicle, readily accepted, favourably re ceived by the readers of that valuable paper - a class of persons whose good opinion I must think it an honour to have obtained - and the reader now holds in his hands the entire results of my present experience in that de partment of Natural History, in addition to what has been already published in the Agricultural Gazette. It is hoped that the need of some attempt of the kind, from some quarter, will conciliate a lenient criticism of the many errors and deficiencies with which the author may doubtless be chargeable, whatever pains he may have taken to guard against them. 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.