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Ducks continued . 



Whistling 242 



Egg testing 47 



Crate 90 



Ladle 89 



Eggs, "caudling" 48 



For market 86 



In Great Britain and in the 



UnitedStates 91 



Liming 86-89 



Packing in barrels 87 



Packing for winter 89 



To secure in winter 115 



Vat for pickling 90 



Fattening ration 11 



Feather-bone 84 



Feathers, save the 84 



Feeding-pen for chicks 59 



Feed-trough, cleanly 41 



Fowls, egg-bound 186 



Egg-eating 184 



Feather-eating 185 



Green food for 105 



Losing feathers 186 



Management and feed 10 



Selecting and selling 115 



White-skinned preferred in 



Philadelphia, etc .... 8 



Yellow-skinned preferred in 



New England 8 



Game fowls at fairs 144 



Green food 105 



Geese, Embden 215 



Plucking 216 



Sebastopol 242 



Toulouse origin 215 



Varieties of 212 



Goose-raising ... 210 



Incubation, artificial 65 



Incubation, natural 46 



Incubators, directions for run- 

 ning 72 



Hot water 68 



How to make 69 



Sawdust packing 71 



Self-regulators 68 



Success and Failure with 66 



Thermometer for 74 



Indian-meal dough 11 



Japanese Bantams 238 



Large birds, how to raise 119 



Lice on hens 189 



Prevention of 117 



Louse-eggs on feathers 189 



Males, importance of pure 122 



Marketing poultry 80 



Market Law, New York 82 



Nest box, locked 39 



Secure 50 



With roller in front ... 40 



Nest boxes 33-35 



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Nest boxes continued. 



Sliding, through partition 34 



Pinned together 36 



Nest of woven wire 38 



In a barrel 37 



Nests for egg-eating hens 37 



Tidy 40 



New York dressed-poultry law. . 82 



Pasturing Fowls 118 



Parasites 189 



Pea-fowl 235 



Trained to stay at home 237 



Perches, handy 31 



Poultry conveniences 31 



Dressing and stuffing 81 



Dressing New England 



method 83 



Ornamental 235 



Special food crops 109 



Raising 7 



When to market 80 



Poultry houses 13 



Building materials for 25 



C. H. Colburn's 21 



Half under ground 25 



Portable 27 



Very cheap 13 



Very complete 21 



Warm 14 



Poultry-keeping as a business. . . 98 



Money made by 99 



Poultry-management, hints. ... 101 



Poultryman's crook 117 



Poultry -yard, common-sense in. 101 



Eation for fattening 11 



Ration, salt in 104 



Roosts, low 32 



Salt in the ration 104 



Samuels on market breeds 8 



Shipping crates, folding 43 



Sitting-box, secure 50 



Sitting hens, care of 49 



Stimulants, use of 106 



Stone for a poultry-house 33 



Theory and practice 247 



Turkey nests 203 



Raising 193 



Roosts 195 



Turkeys, bronze 194 



Early broods 204 



Fattening 196 



Feeding the chicks 206 



Hints about 203 



Loss of w eight in dressing 208 



Setting the hens 205 



Wild, habits of 198 



Water-fountain, pneumatic 41 



Water-fountain for winter 42 



Water- fowls, ornamental 241 



Wintering fowls in cold latitudes 113 

 Women as poultry-raisers 251 



