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INDEX 



Principles, efficiency, apply first, 413. 

 Privilege, of water, for ducklings, 310. 

 Prize, competition, held by Rose Comb 



Brown Leghorns, 29. 

 Prizes, competitive, won by White 



Leghorns, 30. 

 Production, winter, average, 223. 



egg, relation to food and weight, 398. 



group, rules for, 265. 

 Products, marketing, 357. 

 Profit : . 



and consumption, 292. 



clear, $4.17 per layer, 227. 

 Profits, best come whence? 227. 

 Progress, in breeding, 206. 

 Protein : 



comparative, in green and dry feeds, 

 94. 



costly, 82. 



values, 90. 



Public, preying upon, 367. 

 Pullet : 



a good, 177. 



maturing, period of, 18. 

 Pullets : 



age of laying maturity, 180. 



early-laying, 179. 



Quail : 



as poultry, 344. 



at Storrs Experiment Station, 346. 



breeding in confinement, 346, 348. 



brooding artificially, 348. 



European, establishing here, 349. 



importations of, 347. 



scarcity, causes for, 346. 



vanishing, 346. 



young, feed for, 348. 

 Quality, high average, 208. 



R 



Rat: 



carries bubonic plague, 138. 

 chief sources of feed, 140. 

 deal with, on suspicion, 139. 

 fears change and upset, 139. 

 grave necessity for extermination of, 



139- 

 man's duel with, 136. 



Rate, death, chick, 240. 

 Ration, the proper, 76. 

 Rat-proofing buildings, 139. 

 Rats: 



harbors for, 157. 



may insure loss, 142. 

 Records : 



egg, 30. 



of outgoes only, unfair, 208. 

 Regulators : 



average, good, 61. 



defective, 407. 



Remedies, household, for poultry, 124. 

 Removal, early, from machine, 65. 

 Re-setting hens, 46. 

 Rest: 



alighting, 169. 



for sitters, 171. 



Returns, best average, in New Eng- 

 land, 128. 



Risks and the Beginner, 267. 

 Roofing, patent, liked, 159. 

 Room, chicks dying to make, 71. 

 "Rots," for table delicacies, 247. 

 Roughage, 87. 



Ruggedness, best surety against dis- 

 ease, ii. 



Rule, universal, for detail work, 218. 

 Runners, Indian, cheaply raised, 223. 



laying record of, 397. 



Sacs, air, reach all parts of body, 118. 

 Schools, correspondence, 267. 

 Scraps, table, value of, 77, 78. 

 Seclusion, 39. 



Seepage, from barnyard, poisonous, 121. 

 Selection : 



by appearance, 206. 



rigid, for success, 210. 

 Shade, dense, fatal, 49. 

 Shape, the determiner of breed, 20. 

 Shell : 



egg, texture variations, 250. 

 Shells, egg, poor, mean loss, 249. 

 Shelter : 



cheap 'A,' 161. 



for chicks, 69. 



necessary, n. 



