INDEX 



Alfalfa, for poultry 25 



for tilt boxes 234 



Alley, sunken 75 



Alternate system 212 



Bearings, rounded 192 



Bell call, the 165 



Bin, for dry earth 33 



for earth 141 



Bowel disease, cause of 236 



test for 241 



Breeders, houses for 51 



overfat 120 



Broiler business in New 



Jersey 256 

 Broilers, profits in 256 

 Brooder, covers for 318 

 house, details of 213 

 Brooders, indoor and out- 

 door 316 

 lining for 318 

 mammoth 322 

 methods of heating 316 

 old style 312 

 personal supervision 310 

 regulator 306 

 requisites of 304 

 side heat 314 

 ten to manage 231 

 top and bottom heat 314 

 twenty to manage 232 

 uncovered 319 

 ventilating the 317 

 Brooding, theories on 269 

 Buildings, protected, sum- 

 mer 50 

 special 139 

 Business poultry keeping 5 

 Car for transportation 76 

 Cellar for incubators 83 

 Chaff for tilt boxes 234 

 Chickens, by colony plan 19 

 on a small scale 229 

 coops for 97 

 Chicks, at hatching time 279 

 cause of dead 305 

 early food for 132 

 critical time for 132 



Chicks Continued 



care of 124 



and care of hens 24:; 



calling the 163 



feeding young 100 



feeding young 123 



feeding apparatus for 323 



foes of 134 



grains for ;>L'4 



healthy L':r> 



litter for 323 



mortality of brooder 257 



number in flock 324 



shelter for 136 



strong, to get 130 



temperature for young 317 



trained to exercise 184 



waterlogged 289 



weaning 100 



Clockwork for tilt boxes 199 



Close breeding, place of 119 



Cold storage 14 



Combs, cutting 106 



large, drawbacks of 106 



Cook house 139 



Cooling not necessary 283 



Coops, for chickens 97 



moving the 99 



small, for chickens 98 



A-shaped 135 



temporary 213 



Colony plan 17 



Corn, value of 116 



Cover for feed shelf 203 



Covers for brooders 318 



Crops for colony plan 



Cyphers, on incubators 274 



on moisture 293 



Cylinders, duck, filling 189 



feed 155 



for brooder house 220 



homemade 193 



operation of 156, 183 



spool 179 



Disease, treatment of 144 



Drag, homemade 20 



Dressing fowls, place for 141 



