CONTENTS. 



CHAP. PAGE 



I. OSTEICH FAEMINa, ITS OeIGIN A>T) PeOSPECTS . • 1 



II. The Osteich ...... 6 



III. South Afeica ix a FAEins-G Light . . 16 



rV. The Capital Eequieed ..... 24 



V. Fencing ....... 29 



VI. The Peofits of Osteich Faejung ... 45 



VII. BlEDS ON THE TTaLVES . . . . .49 



VIII. Faeming Paetneeships ..... 54 



IX. Teavelling "wtth Bieds . . . . .58 



X. Stocking a Faem ..... 62 



XI. Managing a Flock of Plucking Bieds . . .67 



XII. Taking the Feathees ..... 74 



XIII. Peepaeing the Feathees foe INIaeket . . .80 



XIV. The English Feathee Maeket . . . 87 

 XV. Selecting ant) IManaging the Beeeding Bieds . 94 



XVI. The Egg ....... 101 



XVII. Natural Hatching . . . . . .106 



XVIII. Aetificial Hatching . . . . . Ill 



XIX. Reaeing the Chicks . . . . .123 



XX. Diseases ....... 135 



XXI. Tape-t70em:s . . . . . . .145 



XXII. Steongylus Douglassii . . . . .155 



XXIII. Caponising . . . . . . .164 



