INDEX. 



025 



Laying, Average, Increase of, 175. 



Competitions, 1 79. 



Development of, 53, 180. 



Hens, Diet tor, 38. 



Purposes, Blue Hens for, 504 



Lean Cliickens for Fattening, Cost of. 

 Leg Feather, Care of, 209. [i37- 



Weakness, 613. 



Leghorns, 411. 

 American, 420. 



Black, 419. 



Brown, 414. 



Buff, 4 1 8. 



Changes in, 411. 



Cuckoo, 420. 



Dubbing, 413. 



Duckwing, 417. 



Mottled, 420. 



Pile, 416. 



Qualities of, 411. 



Standard for, 421. 



White, 412. 



Lice in Poultry-, 53, 96, 618. 

 Lime for Fowls, 50. 

 I^incolnshire Buffs, 295. 

 Line Breeding, 181, 185. 

 Linseed for Increasing Gloss, 215. 

 Little, Robert, on Aidalusians, 407. 

 Liver Disease, 614, 617. 

 Lobes, Attention to, 2:3. 



Macliines for Cramming Fowls, 115. 

 Madras Blue Game 343. [129. 



Mains or Matches in Co:k-fighting, 351 

 Maize as Food, 35, 36, 37, 39. 

 JIalays, 331. 



Breeding, 334. 



Early History of, 3^2. 



Pheasant, 339. 



Standard fc r, ,344. 



Male, Influence of, 193. 



Duration of, 196. 



JIallard or Wild Duck, 557. 

 Malt Culms or Malt Dust, 34. 

 Management of Shows, 221. 

 Mandarin Ducks, 57S. 

 Manure, Poultry, 52. 



• and Tomatoes, 130, 146. 



— Value of, 129, 146. 



Market, Making a, 152. 

 Marketing Eggs as New Laid, 150. 



Table Fowls, 123. 



Markets, Opening up New, 140. 

 Marking Chickens, 202. 

 Marx, J. P. W., on FaveroUes, 467. 

 Mash, Morning or Evening, 45. 



or Soft Food, Advantage of, 44. 



Various Kinds of, 45. 



Mating Breeding Stock, 192, 196. 



Double, 179: Evils of, 18S. 



Matings, Experimental, 196. 

 Matthew, Samuel, on Black-breasted 

 Ked Game, 364. 



on Rearing Game, 371. 



Meal Food or Mash, 44, 45. 

 Jleals per Day, 48. 



Meat Feeding and Combs, 1 99 [200. 



and Excessive Plumage, 



Mediterranean Race of Fowls, 393. 

 Meech, Mr. Randolph, and " City " 



System, v. 

 on Semi-Intensive System, 



XX. 



Jlendelism and its Application to 

 Poultry Breechng, 5. 

 79— N.E. 



Mice, 619. 



Middlings or Sharps, 35. 



Milk Cliickens, 126. 



for Chickens, 92. 



for Fattening Fowls, 118, 133. 



Miller, Scott, on Crested Ducks, 564. 

 Mill-stones for Grinding Oats, 132. 

 Minasi's Incubator, 68. 

 Minorcas, 399. 



Breeding, 401. 



Crosses of, 405. 



Ear-lobe in, 403. 



Exhibiting, 402. 



History of, 400. 



Langshan Cross in, 403. 



Qualities of, 405. 



Rosecomb, 405. 



Standard for, 406. 



White, 406. 



Mites, Red, 96, 619. 



and Chickens, 96. 



Mixing Soft Food or Mash, 47. 

 Moisture, Hatching without, 83. 



in Incubators, 83. 



Mooneys, 429, 432, 433, 435, 436, 437 

 Mortality from Crowding, 23, 153. 

 Moss, Mr. H. E., on Hatching Ducks, 

 Moult, 51 ; Feeding in, 52. [86. 



and Colour Feeding, 208. 



and Vermin, 218. 



Jloulting Exhibition Stock, 217. 



of Earlv PuUets, 43. 



of the "Shanks, 21S. 



Mullens, H. P., on the Croad Lang- 

 shan, 291. 

 Murrell, R. W., and Duck-fanning, 572. 

 iluscovy Ducks, 567. 



Naked Necks, 503. 

 Nankin Bantams, 528. 

 National Poultry Interests, 161. 



Organisation Society, 163. 



Nature, on Following, 44. 

 Nests, 20, 60. 



for Egg-heating Hens, 61. 



for Sitting Hens, 63 



Recording or Trap. 1S8. 



Neve's Cramming Machine, 1 ib. 

 New-laid Eggs, 138. 



Fraud in, 163. 



Market for, 162. 



Newly-hatched Cliickens, Saie ot, 156. 

 Night, Feeding Chickens at, 94, 19S, 



210. 

 Nitrogen, Consumption and Excretion 



of, 31- 

 Notice of Sales and Awards, 222. 

 Number in one Breeding Pen, 193. 



of Fowls per Acre, 145, 153. 



Nursing Birds for a Given Date, 211, 



217. 

 Nutritive Ratio of Food, 32, 34. 



Oatmeal as Food, 35.. 

 Oats as Food, 35. 



Grinding in Sussex, 132. 



Ground, 117 



Occupation for Fowls, 50. 

 Old English Game, 347. 



Bantams, 51O. 



Colours of, 357. 



Henny, 357. 



Judging, 358. 



Points of, 356. 



Qualities of, 355. 



Old English Game, Revival of, 355. 



Standard for, 359. 



Fowls, Cooking, 107. 



Open Judging, 222. 

 Open-air Houses, 18. 

 Orloff Fowls, 484. 

 Orpington Ducks, 565. 

 Orpiugtons, 293. 



Black, 293. 



Blue, 302. 



Buff, 295. 



Cuckoo, 301. 



Jubilee, 300. 



Spangled, 301. 



Standard for, 302. 



White, 298. 



Ostrich Eggs, Hatching, 88. 

 Ovary of a Hen, 55. 

 Over-showing, Effects of, 219. 

 Oviduct, The, 55. 

 Ovum, Formation of the, 55. 

 Owl-bearded Fowl, 483. 



Packing Eggs for Sitting, 62. 



Sussex Poultry, 123. 



Paralysis, 614. 



Parentage, Influence of Former, 197. 

 Parrish's Chemical Food, 19.S. 

 Partington, J., on Black Orpingtons, 



294 

 Pavlott Fowls, 484. [417- 



Payne. G., and Duckvvin.'; T.e-horns, 



and Pile Leghorns, 416. 



Pea Fowl, 553. 



■ Varieties of, 554. 



Peas as Food, 34. 



Pedigree Breeding, 181, 1S5. 



Pekin Bantams, 522. 



Ducks, 561. 



Ducks and Duck Farming, 573. 



Penman's Incubator, 68. 

 Penning at Shows, 221. 

 Pens for Training, 214. 

 Perches for Fowls, 19. 

 Peritonitis, 414. 

 Petits Poussins, 106, 126. 

 Pheasant Fowls, 429, 432, 436. 



Malays, 339. 



Pliilo, Mr., and Intensive System, w 

 Phcenix Fowls, 495. 

 Phosphates in Feeding Chicks, 198. 

 Pickles, H., on Breeding Hamburghs, 



430- 

 Piercy, F. O., on Langshans 28;. 

 Pintail Ducks, 580. 

 Pip in Fowls, 615. 

 Plaisted, C, on Brahmas, 260. 

 Plans for Poultry Yards, 26-30. 

 Plucking Birds for Exhibition, 233. 



Table Poultry, 120. 



Plumage, Care of the, 205, 217. 



Dyeing of, 234. 



Hastening, v/hen Backward, 212. 



Plymouth Rocks, 304. 



American, 308. 



Black, 312. 



Black Blood in, 305. 



Buff, 312. 



Characteristics of, 305. 



Mating of, 306, 309. 



Origin of, 304. 



Pea-combed, 312. 



Qualities of, 306. 



Standard for, 314. 



White, 312. 



