CONTENTS. 

 CHAPTER XVI. 



SWINE HOUSING AND FATTENING. 



Hog-houses and Pens. Plans of Hog-houses. Portable Pig-pens. Swill-bar- 

 rels and Troughs. Shall we cook Food for Hogs? Green Food for Hogs. Winter 

 care of Hogs. Fattening. How much Pork from a Bushel of Corn. The Hog as 

 a Manure-maker, Pages 966-991 



CHAPTER XVII. 



The Spanish Breed, or Merino. Mutton. On the Atlantic Slope. The Sub- 

 montane District. The Prairie Section. The Far West. Australia. South Amer- 

 ica. Mexico. The Cots wold Sheep. The Leicester. South-Down. In-and-in 

 Breeding. Lambs. Time for. Feeding. Tagging. Lambing. Lambs with the 

 Flock. Winter care of Lambs. Fattening. Wool. Housing Sheep. Washing. 

 Shearing. Wool-press. Time for Shearing. Drafting and Marking. Ticks. Mag- 

 gots. Water for Sheep. Salt. The Fly. Paper Skin. Scald-foot, or Fouls. 

 Scab. Sheep Barns. Plan of Sheep-houses and Yards. Mangers. Sheep-hook, or 

 Shepherd's Crook. Sheep as Scavengers of Foul Lands. Dogs, 992-1039 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



Is Poultry-keeping Profitable ? Poultry on the Farm. Poultry -keeping for 

 Women. Poultry-keeping for Boys and Girls. Number of Fowls that may be 

 kept profitably. Capital required. Location. Poultry-houses. Plans and Descrip- 

 tions. Inside Fixtures. Yards and Fences. Best Breeds for Special Purposes. 

 Hamburgs, Leghorns, Houdans, Black Spanish, Polish, Bramahs, Cochins, Ply- 

 mouth Rocks, Dominiques, Wyandottes, Dorkings. Improve the common Fowl. 

 Choice of a Cock. Eggs. Market Poultry. Management of Laying Hens. Food 

 and Drink. Best Market in Prices for Eggs. Shipping Eggs. Preserving Eggs. 

 Spring Chickens. Eggs for Hatching. Nests and Sitting Hens. Egg Testers. Ar- 

 tificial Incubation. Care of Young Chicks. How to raise Incubator Chicks. 

 Coops and Runs for Young Chicks. Feeding Pens. When, where, and how to 

 market Spring Chickens. Fall and Winter Chickens. Capons. Turkeys : Bronze 

 Turkeys. White Holland. Setting the Eggs. Feeding the Young Turkeys. 

 Taking care of the Brood. Fattening Turkeys. Ducks: Pekins, Rouens, and 

 Aylesburys. Cayugas. Muscovies. Treatment of Ducks. Food. Picking. 

 Geese : Toulouse, Embden, China. Time of Laying. Hatching. Feeding and 

 Fattening. Preparing Poultry for Market. Laws of New York and New England. 

 Shipping Poultry and Wild Fowls. Packing, 1040-1118 



CHAPTER XIX. 



POULTRY : DISEASES AND THEIR REMEDIES. 



Causes. Prevention. The Douglass Mixture. Care. Lice. Lice on Chicks. 

 Chicken Cholera. Roup. Gapes. Chills. Cramps. Scaly Legs. Leg Weak- 

 ness. Rheumatism. Canker. Bumble-foot. Diarrhoea. Frost-bites. Crop- 

 bound. Egg-bound. Eggs broken in Oviduct. Apoplexy. Soft-shelled Eggs. 

 Egg-eating. Feather-eating. Moulting. Obscure Diseases of Chicks, . . 1119-1132 



