INDEX. 



1239 



Poultry: Chickens 



Care of young chicks 1086 



How to raise Incubator chicks. 1088 



Coops and runs for chicks 1090 



Plans for same 1091 



Feeding-pens 1092 



Marketing spring chickens 1093 



Fall and winter chickens 1094 



Capons 1094 



Poultry : Ducks 



Water-fowls : water 1 103 



Leading varieties 1 1 04 



Pekins 1104 



Rouens 1105 



Aylesburys 1 105 



Black Cayugas 1105 



Muscovies 1106 



The management of Ducks 1108 



Picking for feathers 1109 



Poultry: Geese 1110 



Varieties 1111 



Toulouse 1111 



Embden 1111 



China 1112 



Time of laying 1112 



Goslings 1113 



Fattening for market 1113 



Picking Geese (see for Ducks). 1114 

 Poultry : Turkeys 



Best breeds 1096 



Bronze turkeys 1096 



White Holland 1098 



Feeding, nesting, setting 1099 



Young turkeys cared for 1101 



Fattening turkeys 1 1 03 



Poultry, Preparing for market...H14 



New York law 1114 



Killing fowls 1115 



Picking 1115 



Packing 1116 



Shipping 1117 



Wild Game-birds 1117 



New England rules for poultry. 11 18 



Poultry: Their Diseases, and 



Remedies therefor 1119 



Prevention of disease 1119 



"Douglass Mixture" for fowls..! 121 



Care 1121 



Lice, to get rid of. 1121 



Lice on chicks 1122 



Chicken cholera 1123 



Roup 1125 



Gapes .' 1127 



Chills. 1128 



Cramps 1129 



Scaly legs 1129 



Leg weakness 1 1 29 



Rheumatism 1129 



Canker 1129 



Bumble-foot 1130 



Diarrhoea 1130 



Frost-bites 1130 



Crop-bound 1130 



Egg-bound 1131 



Egg broken in oviduct 1131 



Apoplexy 1131 



Soft-shelled eggs 1131 



Egg-eating 1132 



Feather-eating 1132 



Moulting 1132 



Obscure diseases of chicks 1132 



Potatoes 226 



Preparing the soil 227 



Planting 228 



Cutting the tubers for seed 229 



Time for planting 232 



Covering with straw 232 



Varieties 233 



Cultivation 233 



Colorado Beetle 234 



Harvesting, storing, and mar- 

 keting 234 



Implements for digging 235 



Bin for storing 236 



Pitting 236 



Potato screen... . 413 



