INDEX 



African geese, 255. 



Air space necessary, 95. 



Alien blood, introduction of, 23. 



Amount of land required, 6. 



Andalusians. as farm fowls, 34; descrip- 

 tion of, 34. 



Animal and vegetable nitrogen com- 

 pared, 169. 



Animal and vegetable food for chickens, 

 212. 



Animal and vegetable food for young 

 clucks, 248. 



Animal meal, 169; how fed, 179. 



Arrangement of houses, 87. 



Artificial incubation, 189. 



Asiatics, 44. 



Automatic drinking fountains, 218. 



Aylesbury ducks, 242. 



Bantams, description of. 81; varieties 

 of, 81. 



Barred Plymouth Rocks, 59 ; laying 

 qualities of, 60; useful qualities of, 59. 



Beets, 166. 



Best products most remunerative, 10. 



Black Cayuga ducks, 244. 



Black turkeys, 269. 



Boiled eggs for little chickens, 213. 



Brahmas, 45; description of, 46; varie- 

 ties of, 45. 



Breed useful fowls, 155. 



Breeding and improvement, 131. 



Breeds classified as to utility, 12 ; egg, 

 13 ; fancy, 14, 74 ; for broilers, 235 ; 

 for capons, 227 ; formed by crossing, 

 149 ; general purpose, 14 ; meat, 14, 

 39; of geese, 252. 



Broiler, description of, 232; rearers as 

 specialists, 232; rearing and egg pro- 

 duction, 236. 



Broilers, food for, 235; profits from 

 rearing, 234; size of, 233; skill re- 

 quired in producing, 232; time to sell, 

 233. 



Bronze turkeys, 267. 



Brooder chicks, attack by diarrhoea, 

 221 ; diseased livers in, 221. 



Brooder houses, 199. 



Brooders, 198; care of, 218; essentials 

 of, 201 ; home-made, 205 : kinds of, 

 198; must be dry, 204; outdoor, 202. 



Brown and White Leghorns compared, 

 28. 



Buckwheat, 164. 



Buildings, location of, 82. 



Buff Cochins, 50. 



Buff Plymouth Rocks, 61. 



Buff turkeys, 269. 



Buildings, size of, 94. 



Bumble foot, causes of, 324. 



Business of rearing fowls, 1. 



Cabbage, 167. 



Call ducks, 245. 



Canned meat foods, 170. 



Capital required, 3. 



Capon-rearing, 222; profits of, 223. 



Caponizing, good light necessary, 229; 

 instruments for, 225; operation 'of, 

 226; preparing fowls for, 228, 231; size 

 of fowls for, 228; time for, 230; use of 

 reflectors in, 230. 



Capons, breeds for, 227; description of, 

 224; preparing for market, 231. 



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