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Index 



Grain foods, buckwheat, 178; corn, 175; 



linseed meal, 178; oats, 178; wheat, 



177. 

 Grain rations for laying hens, 193; 



summer, 193; winter, 193. 

 Green foods, necessity of, 178; beets, 



180; cabbage, 181; clover, 179; rape, 



181. 



Grit, necessary, 184. 

 Ground food, 189. 

 Guinea fowls, 294; esteemed for food, 



295; great rovers, 296; number of 



females to one male, 296. 



Hamburgs, 37; characteristics of, 38; 

 unprofitable table fowls, 39; varie- 

 ties of, 38. ? 



Handling eggs through the creamery, 

 322. 



Hawks, dangers from, 353. 



Health of fowls, 89. 



Heredity, 152. . 



History of Leghorns, 25; of Minorcas, 

 33; Andalusians, 33. 



Hollow-side walls, 107. 



Home-made brooders, 221. 



Homers, 301. 



Houdans, description of, 76. 



Houses, construction of, 96; size of, 100; 

 movable, 142. 



Houses for geese, 278. 



Houses for pigeons, 300. 



How to feed, 187; little chickens, 225. 



Importance of exercise, 172. 



Importance of the poultry industry, 1. 



Improper brooder conditions, 237. 



Improvement of common fowls, 165. 



Improvement of Leghorns, 26. 



Improvement through variation, 155; 

 through in-and-in-breeding, 158. 



In-and-in-breeding, 157. 



Incubating eggs, temperature of, 206. 



Incubator buildings, 210, 211, 214. 



Incubator rooms, 211. 



Incubators, 203; care of, 212; opera- 

 tion of, 213. 



Inexperience, cause of failures, 5. 

 Influence of food on color of yolk, 176. 

 Investments yield quick returns, 8. 

 Irish shipping case, 323. 



Javas, 72. 



Killing fowls for market, 305. 

 Kinds of litter, 194. 



Lamp brooders, objections to, 223. 

 Land, amount required, 7. 

 Langshans, characteristics of, 53. 

 Large combs and wattles sensitive to 



cold, 23. 

 Late-maturing qualities of meat breeds, 



46. 



Law of heredity, 152. 

 Law of variation, 154. 

 Laying qualities of Brahmas, 50. 

 Laying qualities of .geese, 278. 

 Leghorns, history of, 2.5; improvement 



of, 26; hardy, 28; light eaters, 28; 



produce white eggs, 30; size of, 27; 



varieties of, 28. 

 Lice, 330; description of, 331; manner of 



propagating, 331; remedies for, 332. 

 Lime, necessary, 185. 

 Lime water as an egg preservative, 



329. 



Lime water, how made, 329. 

 Linseed meal, for molting hens, 178. 

 Litter, 194. 



Live poultry, how shipped, 317. 

 Locating a poultry-farm, 88. 

 Location of windows, 115. 



Machine, forming, 314. 



Maels and egg production, 151. 



Manner of beginning, 6, 



Market price of squabs, 300. 



Marketing poultry products, 302. 



Marking packages, 311. 



Material for nests, 130. 



Maturing qualities of general purpose 



breeds, 60. 

 Meat breeds described, 15. 



