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INDEX 



Incubation, eggs under one hen, 318 



hatching time, 345 



historical development, 326 



natural, 312 



re.cord, 458 



temperature, 338 

 regulation, 333 



testing, 344 



time required for, 321 



turning, 339 

 Incubator, best place for, 335 



care of, 335 



cellar for, 329 

 plans, 328 



development of, 327 



filling egg chamber, 335 



house, capacity of, 330 

 interior arrangement, 330 

 location, 331 

 plans of, 328 

 requirements of, 327 

 ventilation, 329 



lamp, 335 



moisture for, 341 



record, 456 



selection of, 333 



ventilation of, 340 

 Incubators, mammoth, 332 



types of, 331 

 Infertile eggs, advantages of, 307, 437 

 Infertility, causes of, 289 

 Inheritance as affecting breeding, 226 



definition, 226 



genotype conception of, 234 



of disease, 227 



of fecundity, 233 



statistical conception of, 233 

 Instruction, collegiate, 2 



by correspondence, 3 



demand for, 1 



diversity of, 1 



elementary, 1 



need for, 1 



secondary, 2 



types of, 2 

 Internal parasites, 510 

 Intestinal worms, 511 

 Intestines, location and functions, 297 

 Inventory making, 458 



form for, 517-521 



record, 455 

 Investment in buildings, 60 



in equipment, 60 



poultry keeping as an, 24 

 Ireland, poultry farming in, 36 

 Italy, poultry farming in, 38 



Journals, list of, 555 

 Judges, selection of, 485 

 Judging, 486 



by comparison, 487 



by scoring, 488 



fowls, for egg production, 534 



methods of, 487 



objects of, 486 



principles of, 487 

 Jungle fowl, description of, 63 



K 



Kaffir corn, 192 

 Key-word in system, 62 

 Killing, chapter on, 403-421 

 knife for, 412 

 methods of, 409 

 preparation for, 409 



Labor, amount of, 60 

 economy of, 52 

 records, 461 

 Labor income, definition, 520 



factors affecting, 525 

 Labor-saving devices, 60 

 Laboratory practice, methods of, 1 



need of, 4 

 Lady Cornell, performance of, 259 

 Land contour, 46 



form of capital 59 

 ownership vs. rental, 59 

 required, 28 

 shape of, 50 

 size or area, 50 

 Langshan, origin, 72 

 Law of atavism, 240 

 of correlation, 241 

 of inheritance, 229 

 of variation, 235 

 Lawn clippings, 198 

 Laws of breeding, 229 

 Lay bones, 294 



Laying houses, capacity of, 108 

 doors, 119 



features of design, 105 

 floors. 117 

 foundations, 116 

 framing, 118 

 height of, 112 

 materials for, 111 

 moisture in, 107 

 multiple-unit, 128 



