26 JULY 1884, Page 25

Profitable Poultry Keeping. By Stephen Beale. (Routledge and Sons.)—" Poultry

will only pay," says Mr. Beale, repeating the words of the Secretary to the Royal Agricultural Society, "as an accessory to something else." So dealt with, it May be made profitable. But this can only be done by care and diligence. The ordinary servant's idea is to order in so much corn from the corn- chandler. Poultry-keeping on this principle is anything but lucrative. But let some one, whose interest it is to make the thing answer, busy himself or herself with an economical feeding of the birds, giving them what would else be wasted, then—experto crede- a profit may be secured. Mr. Beale's book should be very useful to such an experimenter. He could not in fact get a better help.