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INDEX 



Rations, mixing, 207 

 outlined, 215 

 storing, 211 



summer changes in, 275 

 Vineland contest, 569 

 war-time, 368 

 Rats, protection against, 110 

 Receipts, as influenced by war, 531 

 Recessive, meaning in Mendel's law, 231 

 Reciprocal crosses, 250 

 Records, 453 



breeding, 45t 

 brooding, 460, 461 

 egg, 278 

 feeding, 459 

 hatching, 320 

 importance of, 453 

 incubator, 345, 456 

 inventory, 455 

 labor, 461 



methods of keeping, 162 

 of sitting hens, 320 

 pen, 455 

 planning of, 453 

 sitting, 458 

 young stock, 461 

 Red mites, 508 

 Reference reading, 5 

 Regularity in feeding, 212 

 Retailer, seUing to, 423 

 Returns, 424 



rapidity of, 30 

 Revenue, sources and amount of, 519-623 

 Rhode Island Reds, 93 



origin of, 71 

 Rice, value, 192 



Right-angle triangle, use of, 125 

 Roads, 52 



Roaster, breeds of, 388 

 defined, 386 

 dressing, 418 

 farming, South Shore, 18 

 Roasters, chapter on, 376-402 

 distribution of, 385 

 features of, 388 

 management, 389 

 prices, 387 

 types, 387 

 Roofing materials, 122 

 Roofs, types, 114 

 Roosting quarters, 145 

 Root crops, 200 

 Roundworms, 511 

 Running water, advantages of, 49 

 Russia, poultry farming in, 39 

 Rye, value and usage, 191 



Salesman, 422 



responsibility of, 427 

 Salt, 184, 212 

 Sanitation, 110, 497 

 Sarcoptes mutans, 508 

 Scalding, 414 

 Scaly legs, 509 

 Score card, decimal, 490 



dressed poultry, 492 

 market poultry, 492 

 official, 489 

 types of, 488 

 Scoring, 488 



dressed poultry, 491 

 eggs, 492 



poultry plant, 493 

 Scratch feeding grains, 214 

 Scratching ration, Cornell, 219 



New Jersey, 217 

 Segmentation defined, 307 

 Selection defined, 251 



for egg production, 254 

 hatching eggs, 287 

 importance of, 281 

 judges, 385 

 layers, 275 

 live birds, 101 

 pullets at maturity, 270 

 show birds, 479 

 Selling value pure-bred birds, 99 

 Semi-community system, 51 

 Senses, development of, 298 

 Setting coops, cleanliness, 320 



materials for, 316 

 Setting the hen, 318 

 Sex adaptation, 30 

 control, 250 

 limitation, 243 

 Sexes, separation, 324 

 Sexual dimorphism, 261 

 Shade, 371 



Shanks, changes due to laying, 538 

 Shape, a breed characteristic, 68 

 of laj-ing house, 112 

 selection for, 102 

 Shaping, 417 

 Shed roof, 115 

 Shell for chicks, 359 

 membranes, 304 

 structure and composition, 302 

 usage, 212 

 Shipping dressed poultry, 744 

 ice in, 447 

 methods of, 428 



