INDEX 



535 



Success and failure, causes of, 9G 



best way to achieve, 7, 5G, Cl 

 Succulence for chicks, 361 



need of, 210 

 Sultans, appearance, 77 

 Sunflower seeds, 192 

 Sunlight, 106 

 Supply, 427 



vs. demand, 32 

 Surgery, 504 

 Swiss chard, 201 

 Symptoms of disease, 500 

 System, best for beginner, 60 



denned, 295 



the key to success, 62 

 Systems of feeding, best, 215 

 classified, 212 



of poultry farming classified, 59 



Tapeworm, 512 

 Tar, use as a paint, 123 

 Taste, sense of, 299 

 Telephone, need of, 54 

 Temperature for brooding, 257 



for holding hatching eggs, 288 



for incubation, 33 



fowl's body, 169 



of houses, 109 

 Testicles, location, 298 

 Testing eggs, 320, 343 

 Thermostat, use of, 333 

 Tile, use under foundation, 126 

 Time to start, 61 

 Tissue defined, 295 



kinds of, 295 

 Toe punching, 454 



manner of, 322 

 Training for exhibition, 477 

 Transit, use of, 124 

 Transportation, facilities for, 21 



need of, 54 



Trap-nesting to improve egg production, 278 

 Trap nests, 148 



design, 149 

 usage, 149 



Trench for foundation, 125 

 Troughs for feeding, 152 

 Turning eggs in incubation, 339 

 Two-thirds span house, specifications, 135 

 Type defined, 71 



for egg production, 257 



of incubators, 331 

 of laying houses, 110 



U 

 Under color, importance of, 263 



Uniformity of eggs, 97 



of flocks, 98 

 Unit of protein, cost of, 211 



standard multiple-unit house, 113 

 United States census table, 8 

 Utility classification, 66, 78 



exhibitions, 475 



fancy combined with, 23 



quality, score card for, 490 



score card, use of, 491 



types compared, 88 



Value, basis of, 224 

 Variation, causes of, 239 



functional, 238 



laws of, 235 



meristic, 238 



morphological, 236 



principles of, 235 



substantive, 237 



types of, 236 

 Varieties, number of, 66 

 Variety defined, 70 



necessity in feeding, 180 

 Vegetable cutter, 206 

 Vegetables, composition of, 198, 200 

 Ventilation, automatic, 108 



in incubator cellar, 329, 340 



in poultry house, 108 

 Vigor, cause of lack of, 255 



constitutional, 254 



importance of, 254 



selection for, 102 



Vineland District, New Jersey, 15 

 Vital question, profitable production, 35 

 Vitality, signs of high, 256 



of low, 256 



Vitelline membrane, 301 

 Vitellus defined, 301 



W 



Walls, materials for, 118 



Washing birds, 479 



Waste products, 31 



Water, elevating for storage, 49 



for chicks, 359 



importance of fresh, 49 



in eggs, 184 



in fowl's body, 170 



necessity of, 173, 180 



sources of, 49, 184 



uses of, 173 



Water-glass, use of, 441 

 Weaning chicks, 324, 368 



