CONTENTS. xv 



CHAPTEE XXXIV. 

 Parasites of Swine. 



Kidney-worms Hog-lice Mange, or Scab Measles in Pork Trichinosis 



The Strongylus The Ascaris Symptoms of Worms. .... 970 



CIIAPTEK XXXV. 

 Breeds and Breeding. 



Houdans Crevecceurs Cochins Plymouth Rocks Polish Fowls Brahmas 

 Silkies Frizzled Fowls Rumpless Bantams East India Fowls Aseels 

 Sebright and Pekin Bantams Sebastopol Geese Nile Geese Black-beaked 

 Turkey Ducks. . . . 983 



CHAPTER XXXYI. 

 Food 9 Feeding, and Marketing. 



Proper Food for Fowls Fattening for Market Killing Preserving and Pack- 

 ing Eggs Proper Kinds of Food . 999 



CHAPTER XXXVII. 

 Poultry Architecture. 



General Directions Portable Poultry Houses Shelters "Warm Mother "- 



'Cold Mother" Coops Improved Poultry Homes. . . . 1003 



CHAPTER XXXVIII. 

 Eggs and Incubation. 



Generation of the Egg Physiology of Incubation Natural Incubation Con- 

 venient Hens' Nests Egg-protector Fertility and Egg-testers. . 1008 



CHAPTER XXXIX. 

 Artificial Incubation. 



Artificial Incubators in Ancient Times Progress in Invention of Incubating Ma- 

 chines The Graves Incubator Halsted's Automatic Incubator The Boyle 

 Incubator Tomlinson's Automatic Incubator Thermostatic Incubator 

 Hearson's Regulator. . . . . ..... 1012 



CHAPTER XL. 

 Diseases of Poultry. 



Apoplexy Bronchitis Bumble-foot Catarrh Cholera Consumption- 1 

 Cramps Crop-bound Debility Diarrhea Diphtheria Egg-bound 

 Feather-eating - Frost-bite Gapes Vertigo Swelled Legs Indigestion 

 Leg-weakness Lice Liver Disease Pip Roup White-comb Worms in 

 Ducks Caponizing Fowls. . . 1020 



IDOOr- 

 CHAPTER XLI. 

 Races of Dogs. 



The Dog's Close Relation to Man His Intelligence His Origin Kinship of the 

 Wolf, Hyena, Jackal, and Fox to the Dog The Newfoundland Dog 



