, CONTEXTS. XI 



PAQB 



the l)«st" — Chester Whites — Berkshires — Suffolks — Other Breeds — Crosses — Poiuts — The 

 Sow — Farrowiui; — Care of Piirs — Feediug — Cooking Food — Western methods of Feeding 

 " Ke<?p them Growiug" — The Piggery — I'lau of a Piggery — Diseases of Swiue, with 

 Symptoms aud Remedies — Castrating — Spaying — Abortion. Goats. Cashmere — An- 

 gora — Wool — .Milk — Goats o*. Sheep — Feeding — Diseases. Doos. Curs — Expense — Dam- 

 age done to Shi-ep — Worthlessuess — Nine oat of every Ten should be killed — Good Dogs 

 •—Watch Dogs — Shepherd's Dog — More good pogs wanted — Diseases 406-468 



CHAPTER XII. 



POULTRY AND BEES. 



PoLi.TRV. Hens — Profits of Keeping — Advantages — "The little Pile of Manure"' — Hens vs. Hoga 

 — Eggs — Poultry on a large scale — The Metropolitan Farm — Four Thousand Fowls — Poul- 

 try raised Cheaper than Beef — How — Good Breeds — Shelter — How to build a Poultry 

 Bouse — Feeding and Water in Winter — Setting — Raising Chicks — Breeds — Hamburgs — 

 Game — Cochins — Brahroas — Polands — Leghorns — The Hen Fever — Don't get it — Buy 

 Mcderately — Changing Cocks Yearly — It Pays — Estimates of a Poultry Keeper — Turkeys 

 — How to keep them at home to Lay — Care of young Turkeys — How to Fatten — Bronze 

 Turkeys — Fowls in Horse Stables, etc. — Ducks — Water — Eggs by tlie Ponud — Breeds — 

 Rouen — Aylesbury — Geese — Setting — Bremen or Embeden. Bees, thkfr Habits a.vd ' 

 Management. Great Interest as a Study — Profit the Object in this Book — The Queen — 

 Drones — Workers — Pollen — Propolis — Wax — Combs — Brood Comb — Cells — Queen Cells — 

 Worker's Ceils — Droue Cells — Ilouey — Honey Plants — Enough on every Farm — Hives — 

 The Old Scyle — The Langstroth Hive — .Movable Corabs the Great Secret of Success in Bee 

 Culture — Hooey Board — Other advantages of the Langstroth Hive — Spring Manage- 

 ment — March — Opening Hives — Cleaning — Water — Feeding Rye Flour for Brood — Inter- 

 esting Experiments of Mr. Langstroth — Position of Hive.s — April Management — Feediug 

 Destitute Stocks — May — Hives for Swarms — Rearing Queens for Artificial Swarming — 

 Summer Management— June— Natural Swarms — ludications of a First Swarm — Swarm- 

 ing Boards — Hiving — Handling Bees — Sweetened Water — Bee Hat — After Swarms — Indi- 

 cations — Management — Returning to the Old Stock — Prevention of Swarming — Artificial 

 Swarming — Its Advantages — Preparation of Hives — Dividing the Bees — Changing Loca- 

 tion — Second Method of Artificial Swarming — July Management — Shade and Yeutilatioa 

 —Removing Drone Brood and Destroying Drones — August — Second Honey Harvest — 

 Failure of Supplies — Robbing — Loss of Queen — Fall Management — September — Surplus 

 Honey — October — Feeding — Uniting Weak Stocks — November — Successful Bee Feeding — 

 Mrs. Tupper's Method of uniting Weak Colonies. Wi.vter Management. December — 

 Wintering Bees in a Bee House — A Cellar the Best — Burying Bees— Wintering In the 

 open air — Upward Ventilatiun — January — Cleauing the Hives and supplying Watei — 

 February — Feeding Destitute Stocks — Box Hives — Directions for making and using them 

 — Itallaa Bees 471-^19 



