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INDEX. 



A77- 



Campines, 476. 



and Braekels, 47S. 



Description, 47.S. 



Exliibition, 4S0. 



History, 478. 



r\rating, 4S0. 



Origin, 478. 



Qualities, 479. 



Silver and Golden, 



Standard for, 4S0. 



Canada, Eggs from, 161. 

 Geese, 593. 



Poultry in, 170. 



Canned Eggs, 170. 

 Cantelo's Incubator, 68. 

 Capons, 124; the Operation, 125. 

 Capsule Regulator, Hearson's, 70. 



Defects of, j'^, 77. 



Carbo-hydrates in Food, 32. 



Carbon, Consumption and Excretion 



of, 31. 

 Carbonuier's Incubator, 68. 

 Carolina Ducks, 57S. 

 Carswell, J., on Scotch Greys, 490. 

 Catarrh, 604. 



Cats, Protection against, 95. 

 Cayenne Pepper in Colour Feeding, 206, 



207. 

 Cayuga Ducks, 564. 

 Chalazae, The, 57. 

 Chick, Development of the, 58. 

 Chicken Pox, 603. 



Pudding, 106. 



Chickens and Cramp, 97. 



and Diarrhoea, 96. 



and Insect Vermin, 96. 



Animal Food for, 94. 



Colour of Newly-hatched, 204. 



Coops for, 90. 



Drafting into Lots, 204. 



Dry Feeding ot, 104. 



Fattening of, 107. 



Feeding at Night, 94, 210. 



Feeding on a Board, 93. 



Flagging, 99. 



Food for, 89, 92. 



(ireen Food for, 92 



(jrit for, 93. 



Lean for Fattening, 



Marking, 202. 



Jlilk, 126. 



Roosting, 205. 



Shade for, 99. 



Times of Feeding, 92. 



AVater for, 95. 



Weaning from Hen, 98. 



Chicks Dead in Shell, 85. 



Hatching, Assisting, 66. 



Sale of Newly-hatched, i 



Chilian Pintail Ducks, 580. 

 ChiUing of Eggs when Sitting, 64. 

 Chinese Geese, 592. 



Chittagongs and Brahmas, 260, 262. 

 Chittiprats, 44;. 

 Cholera in Fowls, 603. 



ill Geese, 597. [69. 



Christy, Mr. T., and Hydro-Incubators, 

 " City Svstem," v. 

 Cleaning' Birds for Show, 21;. 

 Cleanliness in House and Run, 



• in Shed. 19. 



Climate and Size of Grass Run, 



and Time of Hatching, 44 



Clover as Food, 35, 38, 46. 

 Cochins. American, 252. 



93- 

 1:1, 137 



■-.6. 



52. 



Cochins, and the Poultry Fancy, 240. 



and Vulture Hocks, 243, 252. 



Black, 249. 



Buff, 243. 



Crosses of, 255. 



Cuckoo, 252. 



Mr. Sturgeon's Early, 241. 



Partridge, 246. 



■ Rearing, 254. 



Silky, 253. 



Standard for, 2;:;. 



White, 251. 



Cock, Dispensing with, 42, 60. 

 Cock-iighting, History of, 34S. 



in India, 337. 



Mains or Jlatches in, 351. 



Origin of, 347. 



Spurs for, 352. 



the Real Cruelty of, 353. 



Cockle-seed as Food, 48. 



Cocks, Duration of Influence, ig6. 



Feeding Brood, 44, 194. 



Sulky, 196. 



Cold or Catarrh, 604. 



Cold Storage and Eggs, 164, 169. 

 Coloration, Laws of Animal, 207. 

 Colour Feeding, 206 ; Experiments, 



207. 

 of Combs, 215. 



of Ear-lobes, 213. 



of Shanks, Keeping, 205. 



Combs, Care of, 200, 212. 



Colour of, 215, 218. 



Exaggerated, 175, 17S. 



Trimming of, 234. 



Competitions, Laying, 179. 

 Condiments for Poultry, 198. 

 Condition and Feeding, 44, 48. 

 Conditioning for Exhibition, 211. 

 Consmnption {see Tuberculosis). 

 Continental (Miscellaneous) Breeds, 476. 

 Cook, W., and Black Orpingtons, 293. 



and Buff Orpingtons, 295. 



Cook, W. H., on Orpingtons, 299. 

 Cooling Eggs in Incubators, 8;. 

 Cooping Hens with Chickens, 92. 

 Coops for Chickens, 90. 



Dry Floors for, 91. 



Copper Colouring Birds, 207. 

 Cornish, Mr. V., on Erahmas, 257, 



258. 

 Corridor Plan for Poultry Houses, 26. 

 Cossack (French) Fowls, 471. 

 Coucou de Malines, 48 1. 



Standard for, 482. 



Course of Breeding or Selection, 182, 



183, 1S4. 

 Courtes Pattes, 470. 

 Cracked Eggs, Hatching, 6^. 

 Cramming Fowls, Systems of, 1 14. 



by Machine, 116. 



Cramp in Chickens, 97. 



Creels, 429. 



Cresswell, O. E., on Exhibition Fowls, 



174. 



on Silver-grey Dorkings, 382. 



on White Dorkings, 385. 



Crested Ducks, 564. 



Crests of Houdans, 262, 464. 



of Polish, 454, 456. 



Preserving, 452. 



Trimming, 459. 



Crevecceurs, 465. 



Standard for, 473. 



Criticism, Press, 224 



Cronibleholme, Rev. J., on Buff-laced 

 Wyandottes, 321. 



• on Gold-laced Wyandottes, 320. 



• on Silver Wyandottes, 316. 



on Violette Wyandottes, 322. 



on White Wyandottes, 323. 



Crooked Toes, 200. 

 Crop-bound, Operation for, 604. 

 Crop, Soft or Swelled, 605. 



Cross, Breeding Back from a, 187. 

 Crossing a Cause of Reversion, 1S2, 1S4. 

 Crowding, Mortality from, 23, 153. 

 Crushing Breast-bone, 123. 

 Cuca Extract for Nervous Debility, 220. 

 Cuckoo or Barred Marking, 305. 

 Custard for Chickens, 89. 



Dandelions, Cultivation of, 93. 



Dari as Food, 35. 



Darwin, Charles, on Brahmas, 258. 



on Reversion, 182. 



Davies, Rev. A. C, on Langshans, 283. 

 Dead in Shell, Causes of Chicks, 58, 85. 

 Debility, 605. 



Delicacy, Two Kinds of, 15. 

 Denmark, Eggs from, 161, 169. 

 Despatch for Exhibition, 218, 219. 

 Diarrhoea and D5'sentery, 605. 



in Chickens, 96. 



Dietaries, Balancing, 36. 



Special, 38, 46. 



Digestibility of Food, 33. 

 Diphtheria in Fowls, 605. 

 Diseases of Poultry, 601. 



Dogs, Wiring them as Guards, 620. 

 Dominance, 12 

 Dominiques, American, 304. ■ 

 Donald, J., and Indian Runner Ducks, 



562. 

 Dorkings, 375. 



Bumble-foot in, 387. 



Combs in, 3S7. 



Cuckoo, 38;. 



Dark, 376. ' 



Fancy and Utility in, 175. 



Origin of, 375. 



Qualities of, 386. 



Red, 381. 



Silver-grey, 382. 



Standard for, 390. 



Vermin in, 381. 



White, 384. 



Double Mating, 179. 



Causes of, 187. 



Double-yolked Eggs, 56. 

 Douglas, John, on Dorkings, 376. 



on Game Fowls, 361. 



Drafting-out Chickens, 98. 



Drakes, Change of Plumage in, 557. 



Drentishe Fowl, 483 



Drinking, Excessive, 5 i . 

 Dropping-board System, 19 

 Droppings, Removing, 52. 

 Dropsy in Fowls, 6116. 

 Dry-feeding of Chicks, 104. 

 Drj'ing Fowls after Washing, 216. 

 Du Mans Fowls, 470. 

 Du Mantes Fowls, 471. 

 Dubbing Game, 372. 

 Duck P^ggs, Hatching, 86. 

 Duck-farming in America, 572. 



in England, 567. 



Ducks, 557. 



Aylesburv, :; ^9. 



Bills of", 560. 



