Index 



341 



Sorting eggs, 299. 



Sour milk for little chickens, 210. 



Spanish as farm fowls, 35; description 



of, 34. 

 Squabs, rearing of, 279 ; size of, 280 ; 



varieties of pigeons for, 280. 

 Stampeding, dangers of, 250. 

 Statistics, unreliable, 2. 

 Stock, pure bred, 150. 

 Sulfur, 174. 



Sultans, description of, 79. 

 Sunshine important, 85. 

 Superior products create new demands, 



10. 



Symptoms of cholera, 320; of roup, 31G. 

 Syngamus trachealis, 313. 



Thorough drainage necessary, 83. 



Time to caponize, 230; to sell broilers, 

 233. 



Toulouse geese, 252. 



Treatmentforcholera, 321. 



Treatment for frozen parts, 324; roup, 

 317; scaly legs, 323. 



Troughs, feeding, 179; for little chick- 

 ens, 215. 



Tuberculosis in brooder chicks, 221. 



Turkeys, 261; Black, 269; Bronze, 267; 

 Buff, 269; care of young, 272; food 

 for young, 271; Narragansett, 268; 

 nests for, 271; number of in the 

 United States, 2; selecting for breed- 

 ing, 269; slate, 269; varieties of, 267; 

 White Holland, 268; wild, 261. 



Useful fowls, 155. 



Useful qualities of Barred Plymouth 

 Rocks, 59; Dorkings, 68; general-pur- 

 pose fowls, 55; Indian games, 72; 

 Javas, 66; Rhode Island Reds, 72. 



Utility as a basis of classification, 12. 



Value of eggs produced on farms in the 

 United States, 3; poultry in the United 

 States, 2. 



Variation, causes of, 142; law of, 141. 



Varieties of Bantams, 81; Brahmas, 

 45; Hamburgs, 36; Javas, 66; Leg- 

 horns, 26; plums recommended, 129; 

 Polish, 76; turkeys, 267; wild turkeys, 

 2C6; Wyandottes, 65; products, 9. 



Vegetable and animal nitrogen com- 

 pared, 169. 



Ventilation, 109. 



Ventilators, construction of, 110. 



Vermin, danger from, 89. 



Vigor and egg production, 136. 



Vigorous fowls, most profitable, 175. 



Walls, concrete, 97; side, material for, 

 92; side, wooden, 98. 



Water basins, 121. 



Water-glass, 305. 



Water troughs for ducks, 249. 



Weight of wild turkeys, 263. 



Wheat as a poultry food, 164. 



White and brown Leghorns compared, 

 28; white fowls preferred, 63; Holland 

 turkeys, 268; Plymouth Rocks, 61. 



Wild turkeys, 261; crosses of, 263; varie- 

 ties of, 266; weight of, 263. 



Window shutters, 108. 



Windows, 106; radiate heat, 107; situa- 

 tion of, 107. 



Winter layers, 22. 



Wooden floors, 105; construction of, 96. 



Wyandottes, description of, 64; varie- 

 ties of, 65. 



Yards and parks, 124; forms of, 127; 



location of, 86; situation of, 127; size 



of, 126. 



Yolk, color of, affected by food, 163. 

 Young ducks, grain food for, 250. 



