INDEX 



313 



Dragoon pigeon, 251 ; illustrated, 241 

 Drawing poultry, 289 

 Dressed poultry, 283 ; illustrated, 285 

 Dressed squabs, illustrated, 267 

 Driving turkeys to market, illustrated, 



199, 280, 281 

 Droppings board, 75 

 Duck farms, illustrated, 146, 14?* 149, 



T 5 



Dumb ducks, 127 

 Dust bath for fowls, 76 

 Dutch artists, paintings of poultry by, 



48 



Dutch races of fowls, 47 

 Dwarf fowls, 64 



Eared Pheasants, 216 



Earth, relation of age of, to evolution, 

 26 



East India Duck, 133 



Egg, description of, 16 



Eggs, uses of, 4 ; number of, set under 

 hen, 95; boiled for chicks, 98; quality 

 of ducks' and hens', compared, 124 



Egypt, fowls in ancient, 36 ; goose sa- 

 cred in ancient, 166; pigeons in, 244; 

 artificial incubation in, 305 



Egyptian Goose, 165 



Egyptian hieroglyphics, duck in, 127 ; 

 goose in, 157 



Embryo, growth of, 16, 21 



Emden Goose, 158; illustrated, 158 



England, colony poultry houses in, 

 107 



English Pheasant, 215 



English races of fowls, 46 



Evolution, theory of, 25 



Exhibition Game Bantams, 70; illus- 

 trated, 37 



Exhibitions of poultry, illustrated, 

 292, 297 



Face of fowl, appearance of, 8 

 Fancier, philosophy of the, 302 

 Fanciers, influence of, on develop- 

 ment of types, 37 



Fancy poultry plant, illustrated, 121 

 Fantail Pigeon, 249, 296; illustrated, 



298 



Farm stock of poultry, illustrated, 84 

 Fattening chickens in crates, illus- 

 trated, 279 

 Feather beds, 31 



Feathers, uses of, 4, 31 ; structure of, 

 8 ; resistance of, to water, 1 5 



Feeding young ducks on duck farm, 



illustrated, 153 

 Fence for ducks, 139; for turkeys, 



192, 197 



Feral race, distinguished from wild, 35 

 Fertile egg, appearance of, when 



tested, 96 

 Feudal system, regulation under, of 



use of birds in hunting, 5 

 Flatheaded Canary, illustrated, 271 

 Flaxseed for canaries, 272 

 Flies, ducks catching, 144 

 Flight of birds, 2 

 Floors in poultry houses, 73 

 Fly for pigeons, 257 

 Flying machine, bird a model for, 2 

 Food, of birds, 15 ; of fowls, 78 

 Foot feathering, 37 ; consideration of, 



in judging, 295 

 Fowl, use of term, 2 

 Fowls and pheasants in same yard, 



illustrated, 220 

 French races of fowls, 48 

 Frillback Pigeons, illustrated, 252 

 Frizzled fowls, 65 



Callus Bankiva, 35 ; cock, illustrated. 



42 

 Game, resemblance of Brown Pit to 



wild progenitor, 27 

 Game Bantam, 37 



Gander, 160; righting, in Russia, 162 

 Garden, keeping chickens in, 83 ; 



keeping ducks in, 145 

 Germ of egg, 16 

 German artists, paintings of poultry 



by old, 48 



German races of fowls, 47 

 Germany, goose growing in, 167 

 Gizzard, function of, 16; peculiarity 



of, in ostrich, 232 

 Gobbler, use of term, 180 

 Golden Pheasant, 215 

 Goldfinch, American, erroneously 



called a canary, 270 

 Goose-fattening farm, illustrated, 175 

 Goslings, growth of, illustrated, 172; 



grazing, illustrated, 174 

 Gough, John B., a noted poultry fan- 

 cier, 53 



Grade, defined, 29 

 Grass, in poultry yards, 72 ; growing 



goslings on, 172 

 Grasshoppers, turkeys as destroyers 



of, 194 



