Poultry-Keeping on Money-Making Lines. By W. Powell-Owen. (Newnes. 2s. 6d.
net.)—The assistant-editor of Poultry has written a timely book that ought to encourage the farmer, small-holder, or " back- yarder " to keep poultry for producing eggs or table-birds ; and though this is only one of many handbooks on the subject, it has the advantage of being up to date on such matters as intensive culture. If we grudge the attention paid to the "fancy," we must admit that poultry shows, like racing, have some real value in improving breeds, and that Mr. Powell-Owen evidently curbs his enthusiasm for tho show tent in order to put his knowledge at the service of the " utility " fowl-owner. There is useful instruction on the egg, from the days when the hen that lays it was herself inside an egg ; on breeding, hatching, rearing, doctoring, housing, and eventually trussing. Geese and turkeys have no more than a page or two to themselves. But the one matter that seems to be inadequately explained is the preservation of eggs : reference t ) "rant u egg-preservatives on the market" is hardly definite enough to be of great help to the would-be hoarder.
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