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INDEX. 



Pneumouia, O15. 



Points, Fowls necessarily Judged by, 

 172. 



of a Fowl, 23S. 



Produced by Selection, 181. 



Polisli Fowls, 451. 



and French Breeds, 461, 472. 



Chamois or Buft-laced, 456. 



Introduction of Muffs in, 451. 



Minor Varieties of, 459. 



Skull of, 451. 



Spangled, 453. 



Standards for, 459. 



White-crested Black, 453. 



Pollard as Food, 35. 

 Portable Houses, 20. 

 Poit-moHcm Examinations, 602. 

 Potatoes as Food, 35, 37. 

 Poulets de Grains, 127. 

 Poultry Club, Origin of the, 232 



Rules against Fraua, 232. 



Manure, AppUcation of, 146. 



. Quantity of, 146. 



Value of, 129, 146. 



Poultry-farming, 145. 



Colony System, 159. 



Difiiculties of, 152. 



Essentials of Success in, 149.. 



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Failures in, 151. 



iu England, 154. 



in Sussex, 1 50. 



Real Difficulty of, 145. 



Poultry-farms, Colony, 153. 



Large, 154. 



Preserving Eggs, 60. 



Press, The, and Exhibition, 224. 



Pressing Trough for Table Poultry, 



122, 134. 

 Prices of Fatted Fowls, no, 136. 



of Foreign Eggs, 161, 162. 



of New-laid Eggs, 162. 



of Table Poultry in France, 1 10, 



13S. 

 Privileges at Shows, Unfair, 221. 

 Prize Poultry, Breeding and Rearing, 



190. 

 . Profits from Breeding, 159, 



190. 

 Procter, G. H., on Buff Cochins, 244. 

 Profit and Loss iu Fattening, 136. 



on Poultry, 54. 



Protectors for Eggs, 65. 

 Proteids in Food, 32. 

 Protests at Exhibitions, 222, 233. 

 Proud, P., on Bantams, 507. 

 Ptarmigans, 495. 

 Puddings, Chicken, 106. 

 Purchased Stock, Exhibiting, 192. 

 Purchasing Eggs, 191 

 ■ Prize Stock, 192. 



Quantity of Food, 41, 44. 

 (juassia in AVater, 51. 



Rake for Removing Droppings, 52. 

 Ranges of Poultry Houses, 25. 

 Rankin, Jas., and Duck Farming, 573, 



575- 

 Ratio, Nutritive, of Food, 32, 34. 

 Rats and Mice, 619. 

 Reaumur's Experiments in Incubators, 



68. 

 Recording Nest Boxes, 188. 

 Records of Breeding, 201. 



Redcaps, 439. 



Standard for, 450. 



Red Hackles and Green Gloss, 251. 



Mite, The, 96, 619. 



Relation, Importance of Some, 192. 



Renwick's Incubator, 69. 



Reporting Shows, 223, 225. 



Resting Eggs for .Sitting, 62. 



Return from Exhibition, 219. 



Reversion, Effects of, 1S4. 



Rheumatism, 611;. 



Rhode Island, Reds, 4SS ; Wliites, 506. 



Rice as Food, 35. 



Rice, Frank E., on Yokohamas, 496. 



Richardson, W., on Black Orpingtons, 



on Buff Orpingtons, 296. [294. 



on White Orpingtons, 29S. 



Rivalry, Evils of Unbridled, 226. 

 Roberts, William, and Breeding Ham- 

 burghs, 430. 



Rocks, Plymouth, 304. 



Roofs of Houses, 1 7. 



Roosting or Perching Chickens, 205. 



Rouen Ducks, 560. 



Roup, Catarrhal, 616 



Rouse, Miss E., on White Cochins, 251. 



Rumpless Fowls, 503. 



Runs, Management of, 153. 



Small, 22. 



Russia, Eggs from, 161 ; Poultry, 164. 



Frozen fowls from, 169. 



Poultry in, i63. 



Russian Fowls, 484. 



Geese, 594, 597. 



Rye as Food, 35. 



Safety Nests, 61. 



Sales, Notice of, from Shows, 222. 



Salts in the Food, 31, 32, 40. 



Scalding Table Poultry, 121. 



Scales of Points, Theory of, 227. 



Scaly Leg, 616. 



Schools and Cockrfighting, 347. 



Schroder's Incubator, 68. 



Schwartz, V , on Irish Egg Trade, 165 



Score-card Judging in America, 229. 



Scotch Dumpies, 4S9. 



Grey Bantams, 527. 



Greys, 490. 



Standard for, 504. 



Scratching Sheds of America, 28. 

 Seasons, Eft"ect on Confonnatiou, 195. 

 Sebright Bantams, 520. 



Cochins or Wyandottes, 315. 



Segregation, 9. 



Selection for Exhibition, 214. 



in Breeding, 182. 



Selling Prize Poultry, Difficulty of, 190. 

 Semi-Intensive Houses, xv. 

 ^ex, Control of, 195. 



Distinguisliing, 203. 



Sexes, Separating, 194, 203. 

 Shade for Chickens, 99. 



Value of, for Plumage, 205. 



Shank Feathering, Care of, 209. 

 Shanks, Colour of the, 205. 



Dyed for Exhibition, 235. 



Moulting of the, 218. 



Shaping Table Poultry, 122, 134. 

 Sharpe, S. C, on the Sussex Fowl, 3S9 

 Sharps as Food, ■>,<,. 

 Shed, Diet of Fowls Confined to a, 48. 



or Covered Run, 21, 25. 



Sheds for Cramming Fowls, 133. 

 Shelf in Poultry Houses, 19. 



Shell of the Egg, 56. 

 Shells for Egg-eating Hens, 61. 

 Sherwoods, 504. 

 Shieldrakes, 5 So. 

 Shinowaratoa Fowls, 496. 

 Show JIanagenent, 221. 

 SiciUan Buttercup. 506a. 

 Sickles, Inserting False, 236. 

 Silkies, 491. 



Oualities of, 493. 



Standard for, 505. 



Simpson, H. and A. P., on Pile Leg 



horns, 416. 

 Singeing Table Poultry, 121. 

 Sitting, Choice of Eggs for, 61. 



Hens, 62. 



Breaking off, 63. 



Heat of, 63. 



Nests for, 63. 



Vermin on, 62. 



Size, Feeding Chickens for, 94. 



Skin E)isenses, 6 16. 



Slipped Wings, 209. 



Small Runs, Care of, 22. 



Small Space, Poultry-keeping iu, 42. 



Smyth, M. F., on Dark Dorkiugs, 377, 



Soft Food for Mash, 44. 



.Solomon, King, and Pea Fowl, 553. 



Sour Milk in Fattening, 133. 



Southern, R., on Partridge Cochins, 

 247. 



Space, Smallest, for Fowls, 21. 



Spangles of Hamburghs, 431, 434. 



Spanish, 393. 



Breeding, 395. 



Bristol, Breeders of, 394. 



Characteristics of, 394. 



Exhibitiijg, 395. 



Faces of, 395, 396, 397. 



OuaUties of, 398. 



Standard for, 398. 



Trimming of Faces, 396. 



White, 397. 



Spots in Eggs, 607. 



" Sports," 14. 



Spurs for Cock-fighting, 352. 



Standard, Judging by, 228. 



Need of Utility Points in, 17S. 



LTse of, iu Judging, 231. 



Value as a, 230. 



Standards, First American, 227. 



First Poultry Club, 228. 



The " Book of Poultry," 227. 



The First, 226. 



The Present Poultry Club, 228. 



Sterile Eggs Keeping Better, 60. 



Sterility, Causes of, 195. 



Stimulants, LTse and Abuse of, 199. 



Stock for a Poultry Farm, 152, 155. 



Weeding out the, 203. 



Stones for Grinding Oats in Sussex, 1 32. 



Storing Eggs, 60. 



Strain, What it really is, 182. 



Strains, Distinct, from one Stock, 1 87. 



Stubbing Table Poultry, 121. 



Stud-book, Importance of a, 201. 



Study of Points and Type, 190. 



Sugar in Fattening Fowls, 133. 



Sulphur in the Food, 31. 



.Sultans, 494. 



Standard for, 506. 



Sumatra Game Fowls, 501. 



Standard for, 502. 



Summer Shows, Chickens for, 211. 



Winners, Drawbacks of, 192. 



