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FIEST LENSON8 IN POULTRY KEEPING. 



INDEX. 



Advertising, 161. 



Age lor weaniiig chicks, 53. 



Age ol breeding stock, 22. 



Albuminous food elements, 113. 



Alfalfa, 8, 12 37. 



American Dominiques, 26. 



American types, 25. 



Animal food, 95. 



Animal organism, needs of, 113. 



Appetite, 16. 



Asiatic types, 25. 



Barred varieties, mating, 31. 



Beak, shape of, 28. 



Beards, 28. 



Black varieties, mating, 29. 



Bone, how much to feed, 16. 



Box coops, advantages of, 44. 



Boxes, feed, 123. 



Boxes for grit, shell, etc., 128. 



Brahma type, 25. 



Bran, 8. 



Breeding stock, selection of, 1-9. 



Breed shape, 20, 24. 



Broken feathers, removing, 143. 



Brooder houses, 109. 



Brood, number in, 47. 



Brown Leghorns, mating, 34. 



Buff varieties, mating, 30. 



Building materials, 64. 



Cabbage, 8, 137. 



Cake, baked for chicks, 50. 



Carbonaceous food elements, 113. 



Cat proof coops, 45. 



Change, effects ol, 95. 



Charcoal, 8. 



Chicks, feeding, 48. 



Chicks helping out of shell, 42. 



Chicks, how many in brood, 47. 



Chicks, how often to feed, 51. 



Chicks, late hatched, 58. 



Chicks, marking, 46. 



Chicks, rearing with hens, 43. 



Chicks, separating, 57. 



Chicks, taking from nest, 46. 



Chicks, teaching to roost, 54. 



Chicks, water for, 52. 



Chicks, weaning, 53. 



Chicks, yard room for, 55. 



Chilled eggs, 41. 



Chloro-naptholeum for mites, 136. 



Cleaning dressed poultry, 160. 



Cleanliness with sitting hens, 40. 



Clipped wings in exhibition fowls, 142. 



Closed houses, 61. 



Clover, 8, 12. 137. 



Cochin type, 25. 



Cold houses, 76. 



Color of plumage, 27. 



Comb, kinds of, 28. 



Comb, lopped, 142. 



Compensation matings, 21. 



Condiments, 8. 



Condition and feeding, 16. 



Confining hens to nests, 40. 



Connecting pen houses, 60. 



Constitutional vigor, 20. 



Continuous house plans, 102. 



Continuous vs. separate houses, 99 



Cooling dressed poultry, 160. 



Coops, 43. 



Coops, for weaned cbicks, 53. 



Coops, placing, 47. 



Coops, why use, 45. 



Corn, as food, 114. 



Corn, feeding whole, 7. 



Correspondence, answering, 162. 



Crests, 28. 



Cubic space for fowl, 63. 



Culling chicks, 47. 



Culling young stock, 135. 



Damaged foods, feeding, 119. 



Dark nests, 125. 



Davis' poultry house plan, 78. 



Disqualifications, 141. 



Dominique, American, 26. 



Dorking type, 26. 



Double comb, see Pose comb. 



Double mating, 22. 



Double mating of Barred Rocks, 31. 



Drinking vessels, 124. 



Droppings boards, 120. 



Dry feeding, 10. 



Dry feed systems, 9. 



Dry grain ration a, 12. 



Dry mash rations, 12. 



Dry picking, 158. 



Dust bath, 41, 128. 



Dust, laying in supply, 136. 



Ear lobes, 28. 



Economy in feeding best, 134. 



Effects of change, 95. 



Egg foods, 8. 



Eggs, chilled, 41. 



Eggs for hatching, about. 39. 



Eggs for hatching, selling, 165. 



Eggs, number to set to a hen, 39. 



Eggs, testing, 41. 



Evening mash, 9. 



Excelsior for nesls, 37. 



Exercise and feeding, 16. 



Exercise in fitting exhibition (owls, 145. 



Exhibiting fowls, 139. 



Exhibition Gams type, 27. 



Failures, why the. 5. 



Fallacies, some scientific, 114. 



Fats, 113. 



Fattening fowls in summer, 97. 



Fattening old hens, 153. 



