INDEX 



533 



Preservation, of fence posts, 161 



of fences, 167 



of houses, 122 

 Price of products, 426 

 Prices, regulation of, 430 

 Principles of breeding, 225 



of judging, 487 

 Prizes, profit from, 473 

 Problems of the breeder, 223 

 Producer to consumer, 425 

 Production, amount of, 33 



as affected by male, 307 



cost of, 33 



feeding for, 175 



noted centres of, 10 

 Productiveness, effect on vigor, 255 

 Products as influenced by foods fed, 178 



easy to market, 29 



exhibition of, 486 



variety of, 29 

 Profits, average yearly, 34 



determined by, 32, 267 



effects of rats and mice upon, 110 



from advertising, 475 



from prizes, 473 



from sale of birds. 475 



how to increase, 35 



per cent on investment, 34 

 Protection from cold, 110 

 Protein, composition of, 170 



cost of a pound, 211 



defined, 170 



for chicks, 360 



functions of, 172 



importance of, 172 

 Protoplasm defined, 295 

 Proventriculus, 297 

 Publications, development of, 20 

 Pullets as breeders, 256, 284 



early producing, 253 

 "Pure bred" defined, 96 

 Pure-bred birds, cost of, 98 

 demand for, 99 

 efficiency of, 99 

 selling value, 99, 252 

 Pure breeds, advantages of, 96 

 value for meat, 259 



Q 



Qualifications necessary for poultryman, 57 

 Quality of products, 426 

 Quarters, roosting, 145 



R 



Range, 369 



Rape, composition of, 200 

 value, 201 



Rations, compounding, 207 



defined, 207 



for chicks, 361 



for growing stock, 375 



mixing, 207 



outlined, 215 



storing, 211 



summer changes in, 275 

 Rats, protection against, 110 

 Recessive, meaning in Mendel's law, 231 

 Reciprocal crosses, 250 

 Records, 453 



breeding, 454 



brooding, 460, 461 



egg, 278 



feeding, 459 



hatching, 320 



importance of, 453 



incubator, 345, 456 



inventory, 455 



labor, 461 



methods of keeping, 462 



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, selling to, 423 

 Returns, 424 



rapidity of, 30 

 Rhode Island Reds, 93 



origin of, 71 

 Rice, value, 192 



Right-angle triangle, use of, 125 

 Roads, 52 

 Roaster, breeds for, 388 



defined, 386 



dressing, 418 



farming, South Shore, 18 

 Roasters, chapter on, 376-402 



distribution of, 385 



features>f, 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 



