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Index 



Quality of flesh of meat breeds, 41. 



Quality of food, 172. 



Quick returns from money invested, 8. 



Raising poultry as a business, 1. 



Rape as food. 181. 



Rations for little chicks, 226; animal 



food, 228; hard-boiled eggs, 229; skim 



milk for, 228. 



Rats, 352; extermination of, 352. 

 Rearing capons, 240. 

 Rearing squabs, 300. 

 Red Caps, 40; characteristics of, 40. 

 Remedies for diarrhea, 347. 

 Remedies for gapes, 336. 

 Remedies for lice, 332; for mites, 334. 

 Rhode Island Reds, 79. 

 Roofing materials, 113. 

 Roofs for poultry-houses, construction 



of, 110; essentials of, 113; form of, 



109; materials for, 113. 

 Rooms for incubators, 211. 

 Root cutters, 180. 

 Rouen ducks, 261. 

 Roup, 338; general discussion of, 338; 



symptoms of, 338 ; treatment for, 339. 

 Rules for selecting eggs, 328. 

 Rules for selecting turkeys for breeding, 



290. 



Runs, suitable for geese, 270. 

 Runts, 301. 



Salt, beneficial, 186; poisonous in large 

 quantities, 351. 



Salt, necessary, 186; amount required, 

 186. 



Scalding, 307; precautions of, 309. 



Scaly legs, 347; treatment for, 348. 



Selecting eggs, 328. 



Selecting eggs for hatching, 145. 



Selection for vigor, 147; for egg produc- 

 tion, 148; for utility, 170. 



Selection of a breed, 143. 



Selection of an incubator, 207. 



Selection of breeding stock, turkeys, 

 290. 



Shed-roof, 111. 



Shipping-cases for eggs, 322. 



Shipping-crates, 317. 



Shipping live poultry, 317. 



Shrunken eggs, 321. 



Shutters for windows, 115. 



Side walls, construction of, 105. 



Silkies, description of, 84. 



Size of egg breeds, 14 ; fancy breeds, 59 ; 



general purpose, 59; meat breeds, 41. 

 Size of fowls to caponize, 246. 

 Skim milk, 183; for little chicks, 228. 

 Slate turkeys, 288. 

 Slight elevation preferred, 90. 

 Soft foods most profitable, 189. 

 Solid colors preferred, 33. 

 Solid side walls, construction of, 105. 

 South side of house desirable for yards, 



92. 



Spanish fowls, 36. 

 Species of native turkeys, 285. 

 Spraying for lice, 333. 

 Spoiled eggs, 321. 

 Squabs, 300; market prices of, 300; 



varieties of, 301. 

 Squabs, food for, 301. 

 Statistics, unreliable, 2. 

 Straw as litter, 194; buckwheat hulls, 

 . 194. 

 Sulphur, 187. 



Sultans, description of, 85. 

 Sunshine desirable, 90. 

 Superior products create new demands, 



12. 

 Symptoms of cholera, 342; of roup, 



338. 

 Syngamus trachealis, 335. 



Temperature of incubating eggs, 206. 



Theory of incubation, 205. 



Time of feeding, 190. 



Time of year to begin, 6. 



Time to caponize, 246, 248; to seU 



broilers, 252. 

 Toulouse geese, 271. 

 Transmission of characters, 153. 

 Treatment for bumble foot, 349'. 

 Treatment for cholera, 343. 



