INDEX 



447 



Nests : 



should be comfortable and inviting, 6. 



under droppings platform, 153. 



upright series of, 168. 

 Netting : 



galvanizing processes, 308. 



must be stretched firmly, 166. 



wire, advantages of, 309, 311. 

 Non-sitters, 38. 

 Normal, what is? 115. 

 Normality the true basis of expecta- 

 tion, 116. 



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Oats: 



burying for green feed, 97. 



"Processed," 237. 



sprouted, and success, 240. 

 Observation leads to interest, 4. 

 Onions : 



cheap green feed, 100. 



may taint eggs, 100. 

 Orchards, for poultry, 278. 

 Orders, important supplies, should be 



early, 406. 

 Organs : 



egg, result of stimulation upon, 362. 



internal, crowded, 362. 

 Orpingtons : 



Black, in Missouri, 302. 



in 1095, 24. 



in 1911, 24. 



rise of, 23. 

 Ostriches : 



as economic birds, 354. 



produce of, 354. 

 Outgo, months of, 16. 



Package, poultry, Cornell, 388. 

 Packages : 



marking, 388. 



standard, 389. 

 Paint, lice: 



applying to roosts, 128. 



home-made, 128. 

 Palatability, 78. 

 Panels : 



netting, 166. 



wire, handy, 166, 167. 



Partridges, English, prices of, 346. 

 Pears, sugar content of, 94. 

 People, the, pay, 430. 

 Perfection, a dream," 190. 

 Periodicals, poultry, many, 283. 

 Pestilence through lack of knowledge 



of one fact, 113. 

 Pheasants, introducing, 350, 351. 

 Picking, dry, 386. 

 Pigweed, 101. 

 Pinfeathers, black, 25. 

 Plague : s 



cost thousands of dollars, 140. 



of mice, in Nevada, 144. 

 Plagues, of mice, long known, 143. 

 Plucking injures laying and fertility, 



396. 

 Plumping, 384. 

 Points : 



good and bad, 12. 



vital, in choosing breed, 30. 

 Poisons : 



for rodents, most approved, 142. 



rat, bacterial forms of, 140. 

 Potashes to help fruit trees, 102. 

 Potatoes, chopped, good feed, 95. 

 Poultry : 



commercial, 24. 



cooling for shipment, 384. 



does it pay? 211, 213. 



house, cloth front, desirable, 109. 



houses, warming artificially, 109. 



icing, 384. 



not paying, why ? 204. 



packing, 384. 



per cent on farms, 227. 



scalding, 386. 



state aid for, 281. 



with fruit, 22, 277. 

 Poultryman, city, lacks much common 



knowledge, 119. 

 Poults, turkey, weak, 336. 

 Premise, a wrong, 79. 

 Prevention: 



agencies for, 106. 



means "good luck," 136. 



the great reliance, 128. 

 Price, more, small quantities, 125. 

 Price current, 383. , 

 Prices, geese and eggs, 329. 



