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Index 



Plum trees for the poultry yard, 128. 



Plums, varieties of, 129. 



Poisoning from salt, 327. 



Poisoning rats, 328. 



Polish, description of, 75 ; fowls not 

 hardy, 76; varieties of, 76. 



Portable houses, 130. 



Poultry business suited to either sex, 8; 

 cases. for shipping, 289; diseases and 

 enemies of, 308; frozen, 291; in apple 

 orchards, 129; packing in ice for ship- 

 ment, 290; raising as a business, 1; 

 shipping alive, 297; statistics unre- 

 liable, 2; time to ship, 292; value of, 2. 



Preparation of fowls for caponiziug, 

 228. 



Preparing capons for market, 231 ; 

 fowls for market, 282. 



Preserving eggs, 302. 



Production of pate de foi gras, 258. 



Products easy to market, 10; variety 

 of, 9. 



Profit in feeding, 175. 



Profits from rearing broilers, 234; from 

 rearing pigeons, 278; capon rearing, 

 223. 



Protected water basins, 121. 



Pure air necessary, 195. 



Pure-bred stock, advantages due to, 

 150; compared to common stock, 151. 



Quality of food, 160. 



Quick returns from money invested, 7. 



Raised elevation preferred, 84. 



Raising poultry as a business, 1. 



Rape as a green food, 168; preparation 



of, 168. 



Rats, poisoning, 328. 

 Rearing capons, 222; squabs, 279. 

 Red Caps, description of, 38. 

 Remedies for diarrhoea, 326; for gapes, 



314; for lice, 310; for mites, 313. 

 Requisites for success, 4; of a good 



nest, 115. 

 Rhode Island Reds, 72, 



/Roof, gable, 103; impervious to wind, 



105; shed, 104; form of, 103. 

 Rooms for incubators, 194. 

 Root-cutters, 167. 

 Rouen ducks, 243. 

 j Roup, causes of, 316; symptoms of, 316; 



treatment for, 317. 

 Rumpless fowls, described, 80. 

 Runs, suitable for geese, 251. 



Salt, beneficial, 172 ; poisoning, 327; 

 poisonous, 173. 



Scalding fowls, 287. 



Scaly legs, cause of, 323; treatment for, 

 323. 



Selecting eggs, 133; turkeys for breed- 

 ing, 269. 



Selection and improvement, 157. 



Selection of an incubator, 191; of fowls, 

 131. 



Separate the sexes in fattening pens, 

 183. 



Shallow pans as drinking fountains, 



121. 

 | Shed roof, 104. 



Shipping eases for eggs, 301 ; dressed 

 fowls, 289; live poultry, 297. 



Shutters, window, 108. 



Side walls, material for, 92; solid, 99; 

 wooden, 98. 



Silkies, description of, 79. 



Site, should be raised, 84. 



Situation of perches, 112; of windows, 

 107; of yards, 127. 



Size of fowls and egg production, 135; 

 of broilers, 233 ; of building, 94 ; of 

 egg breeds, 15; of flocks, 5; of fowls 

 for caponizing, 228 ; of general -pur- 

 pose fowls, 56 ; of Leghorns, 25 ; of 

 meat breeds, 39 ; of squabs, 280 ; of 

 yards, 126. 



Skim milk, 170. 



Slate turkeys, 269. 



Soft -foods, 176; most profitable, 176. 



Solid side walls, 99 ; construction of, 

 100. 



