TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Common Sense Poultry Houses 9 



What Variety to Choose 18 



Eggs for Breeding 27 



Eggs for Market 30 



The Feeding Problem 34 



Sample Rations 35 



Feeding Beans 39 



Sprouting Oats 44 



Breeding-in-Line 45 



Fertile Eggs 53 



Testing Eggs for Incubation 56 



Natural Incubation 59 



Artificial Incubation 64 



Care of Brooder Chicks 69 



Fireless Brooder 73 



White Diarrhoea in Brooder Chicks 74 



Vigor 77 



One-Day-Old-Chick Trade 79 



Broiler Ranches 80 



Summer Work 81 



Trap Nest 85 



Grit and Gizzard 89 



Pests of a Poultry Yard 92 



Diseases of Poultry (Roup) 95 



Town Lot Fowls 98 



Moulting Season 101 



Value of Economy -. 105 



Preserving Eggs 109 



Capons 112 



Turkeys and How to Raise Them 116 



Ducks and their Varieties 124 



Something about Geese 131 



Basley Formulas 134 



Questions and Answers 135 



Cause and Cure of Sickness 137 



Lice, Mites, Ticks and Worms 159 



Feeding in General 165 



Egg Question 1 73 



Hatching with Incubator and Hen 176 



Yard Room 183 



Mating and Breeding 184 



Miscellaneous Questions 185 ' 



Turkey Questions 190 



About Ducks and Geese.. 195 



