xvi ILLUSTRATIONS 



136. An Excellent Source of Fresh Clean Water 247 



137. A Young Man Feeding His Cockerels Their Grain Ration . . 249 



138. A Full Egg Pail is the Object in Feeding for Egg Production 251 



139. The Story of Belle of Jersey. (A) Belle of Jersey as a Year- 



ling. (B) The Feed She Consumed the First Year. (C) 



The Eggs She Laid the First Year 253 



140. A Son of Belle of Jersey 254 



141. A Small Brook Supplies Fresh Drinking Water 255 



142. Sprouted Oats Make One of the Best Kinds of Green Feed . . 256 



143. A Small Dry Mash Hopper for Out of Doors 256 



144. Feeding the Morning Ration to His Buff Orpingtons 259 



145. Feeding the Night Ration to His Barred Plymouth Rocks . . . 260 



146. Two Pairs of Broilers 264 



147. A Flock of Roasting Chickens Ready for Market 264 



148. Broilers Being Finished on a Commercial Scale 267 



149. Cockerels Being Fattened in a Homemade Crate 268 



150. Table Eggs of Good Quality Packed in Cartons 273 



151. White Leghorn Broilers Plucked and Ready for Shipment. . 275 



152. Six Small Roasters Weighing Four Pounds Each 277 



153. A Plymouth Rock Cockerel and Capon . 278 



154. An Ideal Bird To Be Used for Breeding 280 



155. Poultry Manure a Valuable By-product 281 



156. Undesirable Types of Eggs for Market 284 



157. A Crate Used in the Shipping of Live Poultry to Market 285 



158. A Crate Used to Ship Exhibition or Breeding Birds 285 



159. Beheading a Chicken 287 



160. Sticking and Dry Picking a Bird. (A) The Bird Suspended 



by the Feet. (B) The Operator Severing the Artery in the 

 Mouth. (C) Plucking the Feathers Quickly but Carefully. 

 (D) The Bird Picked and Ready for Chilling 288 



161. The Plucked Carcass Being Chilled in Cold Water 290 



162. Hatching Eggs Packed for Shipment by Parcels Post 291 



163. A Neat Trade Mark for a Young Poultryman 292 



164. Delivering His Eggs and Poultry to a Retail Trade 295 



165. Standard, Thirty-dozen Egg Case 297 



166. A Special Shipping Case for the Retail Trade 299 



167. Removing the Droppings from His House 303 



168. (A) Barrels Used for the Storing of Manure. (B) A Specially 



Constructed House for the Keeping of Poultry Manure. . 304 



169. Carrying Fresh, Clean Litter to the Poultry House 305 



170. Spraying the Interior of the House 305 



171. An Isolation Coop or Fresh Air Hospital 309 



172. Sketch Showing the Effect of Freezing the Comb 314 



173. The Round Worm of Poultry 317 



174. An Enlarged Body Louse 319 



175. An Enlarged Red Mite 319 



176. Map of the United States Showing Distribution of Poultry. . 325 



177. The Women Often Care for the Farm Flocks 326 



178. A Typical Danish Poultry House and Flock 328 



179. The Location of Poultry Associations in New Jersey 330 



180. An Egg Record Form for Six Months 333 



181. A Small, Neat Sign for Advertising Purposes 337 



Sketch Showing Parts of a Bird 353 



