^ INDEX. 479 



REARING OF FOWLS The greatest gainers, the dealers P. 61 



Amount of Eggs in the United States 61 



How amateurs of Fowls should begin to keep them 61 



Proper kind of house 61 



Proper kind of nests 63 



How the Fowl-house should be kept 64 



How to treat a Hen when she wants to sit 66 



Period of Incubation 67 



What to be done at the end of incubation 69 



What to be done when the Chicks are hatched out 72 



Chicks may be reared without a mother 74 



Dutch mode of fattening Fowls 75 



Various modes of cooking Poultry 77 



How to procure the greatest number of Eggs 79 



Jalap as a medicine for Fowls Dose of Relation of salt to 81 



Importance of lime for 82' 



How Fowl-houses should be situated 83 



How to obtain male or female Chicks 83 



SHAKEBAG FOWL History of 272 



Supposed to be now extinct 273 



SHANGHAE FOWL 132 



Mr. E. R. Cope's opinion of 133 



Rev. Mr. Bumstead's Shanghaes 134 



Their laying qualities 135 



The Red Shanghae 136 



Dr. Eben Wight's White Shanghaes Descriptions of 139 



Habits and dispositions of. 140 



Thriftiness in this climate 141 



SWAN, BLACK Its habits Where originally found 382 



How to distinguish the sex of 384 



How to pinion the 385 



Way to feed the 386 



Period of incubation - 392 



The way to fatten Weight of. 394 



Mode of cooking < 395 



SWAN, MUTE 379 



Habits of. 385 



The Hooper, the Polish, and Berwick 382 



TAME DUCK Mr. Taggart's opinion of the common Duck 456 



Number of Eggs laid in a season 456 



