INDEX 



African geese, 273. 



Air-space necessary, 102. 



Amount of land necessary, 7. 



Amount of salt necessary, 186. 



Andalusians, 35. 



Animal and vegetable food for young 



chickens, 228. 

 Animal and vegetable food for young 



ducks, 267. 

 Animal meal, 183. 

 Arrangement of houses, 88. 

 Arrangement of nests, 127. 

 Artificial incubation, 204. 

 Ash, deficient in food for chicks, 229. 

 Asiatics, 46. 



Automatic drinking-fountains, 131. 

 Aylesbury ducks, 260. 



Bacillary white diarrhea of young 

 chicks, 345; prevention of, 347; 

 source of infection, 346. 



Bantams, 86. 



Barred Plymouth Rocks, description 

 of, 63; origin of, 63. 



Beets as food, 180; manner of feeding, 

 180. 



Best products most remunerative, 12; 

 sell quickest, 12. 



Bone cutters, 183. 



Bones as food, 182. 



Bones, fresh cut, 182. 



Bourbon turkeys, 289. 



Bowel disorders of little chicks, 236. 



Brahmas, characteristics of, 48; laying 

 qualities of, 50; origin of, 47; varie- 

 ties of, 47. 



Breeding, 152. 



Breed pure-bred stock, 163. 



Breeds of ducks, 259. 



Breeds of geese, 270. 



Breeds suitable for broiler rearing, 254. 



Breeds suited to produce capons, 245. 



Breed useful fowls, 168. 



Broiler rearing, 253. 



Broilers, description of, 251; food for, 

 254; size of, 252. 



Brooders, 215; classes of, 215; home- 

 made, 221 ; requisites of, 217. 



Brown. Leghorns, 30. 



Buckwheat as a food, 178. 



Buff Cochins, 52. 



Buff Leghorns, 29. 



Buff Orpingtons, 72. 



Buff Plymouth Rocks, 66. 



Buildings, foundation of, 102; roofs for, 

 109; side walls of, 105; size of, 100. 



Bumble foot, 349; treatment for, 349. 



Business of rearing fowls, 1; suited to 

 many persons, 9. 



Cabbage and rape, 181. 



Canned meat foods, 183. 



Capital required, 3. 



Capon and broiler rearing, 241. 



Caponizing, instruments for, 243; oper- 

 ation of, 249; results of, 242; when to 

 operate, 248. 



Care of incubators, 212. 



Care of little chickens, 224, 231. 



Care of pigeons, 299. 



Characteristics of Bantams, 86; Brah- 

 mas, 48; Cochins, 52; Cornish Games, 

 77; Dominiques, 73; Dorkings, 75; 

 Faverolles, 54; Frizzles, 85; Houdans, 

 76; Javas, 72; Langshans, 53; Orping- 

 tons, 70; Plymouth Rocks, 63; 



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