INDEX 



363 



Instruction, systematic, 2 

 Intensive brooding, 135 

 Internal parasites, 317 

 Investment, in the United States, 

 324 



Killing poultry, 286 



Langshan, 64 

 Laying, dry mash, 257 

 Leghorns, 51 

 Lice, 318 



ridding of, 119 

 Linseed meal, 226 

 Litter, 195 



care of, 303 



Live poultry for market, 285 

 Liver diseases, 312 

 Location of houses, the problem, 

 151 



ideal, for poultry houses, 155 

 Long breeding house, 205 

 Lumber terms defined, 179 



Malay fowl, 35 



Management of young stock, 148 



Mangel beets, 237 



Manure, as a salable product, 281 



Market conditions, improvement 



of, 297 



egg, score card, 352 

 eggs, quality, 283 

 poultry, kinds of, 275 



shipping, 286 

 Marketing poultry, principles of, 



291 

 Markets, 151 



kinds of, 294 

 Materials for houses, 200 

 Mating defined, 84 

 Matings, importance of, 88 

 Maturity, of egg breeds, 50 



of general purpose breeds, 69 

 of meat breeds, 59 

 Meat breeds, 41, 58 



broodiness of, 61 

 definition of, 58 

 disposition of, 59 

 feed for, 61 

 hardiness of, 61 

 maturity, 59 

 production from, 61 



Meat breeds, size of, 58 

 varieties of, 62 



feeds, 224 



production, breeding for, 90 

 centers of, 327 



products, composition, 225 



scrap, 225 



shape, 60 



Mill-products, composition, 226 

 Minks, 321 

 Minorca, 53 



Miscellaneous breeds, definition,77 

 Mites, 319 



Money transactions, 335 

 Mother hen, uses of, 112 

 Moulting, 17 

 Mouth, 219 

 Multiple unit house, 202 



Nest for sitters, 113 

 Nests, 173, 191 



homemade, for birds, 29 



making, 114 



Night rations for layers, 259 

 Nuthatch, 28 

 Nutrients, definition, 218 

 Nutrition, definition, 218 



organs of, 221 



Oats, 228, 236 

 Organization, 331 

 in teaching, 8 

 Oriole's nest, 25 

 Orpington, 74 

 Ovary, 97 

 Oviduct, 98 

 Oyster shell, 231 



Parasites, 317 



Partnership in poultry keeping, 



294 



Pedigree, 91 

 Pelicans, brown, 21 

 Pen fattening, 266 

 Perches, 173, 189 

 Picking, methods of, 287 

 Pigeons, 22 



Plates, erection of, 183 

 Pleasure from poultry, 79 

 Plymouth Rocks, 72 

 Polish, 77 

 Portability of fixtures, 188 



