FIRST LESSONS IN POULTRY KEEPING. 



167 



Fattening poultry, 149. 



Feathers on shanks, 141. 



Feathers, removing broken, 143. 



Feed, how much, 15. 



Feed, how often to, 14. 



Feed, how to learn to, 117. 



Feeding, best way to economize ."n, 134. 



Feeding chicks for stock purposes, 56. 



Feeding growing chicks, 55. 



Feeding market chicks, 56. 



Feeding, practice in, 118. 



Feeding, simple vs. scientific, 112. 



Feeding, special, 96. 



Feeding, summer , 95. 



Feeding, three prime factors in, 119. 



Feeding young chicks, 48. 



Feed, keeping by chicks, 51. 



Feed troughs, boxes and hoppers, 123. 



Feed troughs for chicks, 51. 



Fences, permanent, 130. 



Fence, the simplest, 129. 



Fitting for exhibition, 144. 



Fixed feeding standards, 115. 



Fixtures, poultry house, 120. 



Floors, 64. 



Floor space per fowl, 63. 



Flour, 8, 63. 



Food elements. 113. 



Food for silting hens, 39. 



Foods, 7. 



Food supplies for a flock, 8. 



Forcing exhibition fowls for weight, 145. 



Foundations, 64. 



Fowl, how to catch H, 143. 



Fowls, how judged, 140. 



Fresh air, importance of, 135. 



Game types, 26. 



Gates, 132. 



Golden Laced varieties, mating, 33. 



Golden Penciled varieties, mating, 33. 



Grain and meat mash, 12. 



Grain, how much, 15. 



Green food, 8, 95. 



Green food in fitting exhibition fowls, 144. 



Green foods, winter supply, 137. 



Grit, 8. 



Grit, shell, etc., receptacles, 128. 



Grooming exhibition fowls, 145. 



Grosvenor's poultry house, 87. 



Hamburg type, 26. 



Hatching, what to do when, 42. 



Hatching with hens, 35. 



Hawk proof coops, 45. 



Hay for litter, 137. 



Height of walls, 62. 



Helping chicks out of shell, 42. 



Hens, old, as layers, 91. 



Holding poultry for high prices, 157. 



Hoppers, feed, 123. 



Houdan type, 26. 



House capacity and dimensions, 63. 



House for a dozen fowls, 67. 



House for twenty-five fowls, 78. 



House for seventy-five fowls, 70. 



Houses, brooder, 109. 



Houses, continuous vs. separate, 99. 



Houses, making ready for winter, 136. 



House with walk, width of, 64. 



Housing methods, 60. 



How often to feed, 14, 51. 



How to catch a fowl, 143. 



How to make a nest, 37. 



How to scald a fowl, 160. 



How to set hens, 38. 



Inbreeding, 23. 



Incubator rooms, 106. 



Indian Game type, 27. 



Insecticides, using, 41. 



Java type, 26. 



Johnnycake, 50. 



Jumping for exercise, 17. 



Killing poultry, 158. 



Laced varieties, mating, 33. 



Langshan type, 25. 



Late hatched chicks, 58. 



Layers, old hens as, 91. 



Laying stock, feeding in winter, 14. 



Leaf comb, 28. 



Leaves for litter, 137. 



Leghorn type, 25. 



Legs, 29. 



Lice, treating chicks for, 52. 



Lice, treating sitting hens for, 41. 



Light Brahmas, mating, 32. 



Like begets like, 19. 



Line breeding, 23. 



Literature of mating fowls, 34. 



Litter, 137. 



Live poultry, selling, 157. 



Lopped comb, 142. 



Machine fattening, 153. 



Maine poultry house, 80. 



Making a mash, 12. 



Mangels, 137. 



Marking chicks, 46. 



Mash, feeding, 9. 



Mash, how much, 15. 



Mash, making a, 12. 



Materials, building, 64. 



Mating, 21, 29. 



Mating, double, 22. 



Mating, engaging experts for, 22. 



Mating fowls, literature of, 34. 



Mating, two systems of, 31. 



Meat and grain mash, 12. 



Meat foods, 8. 



Meat, how much to feed, 16. 



Methods of feeding, 9. 



Middlemen, 154. 



Middlings, 8. 



Milk for fowls, 8. 



Millet, quality and feeding,?. 



Minorca type, 23. 



Mites, 136. 



Mixed chop, 7. 



Molting, 97. 



Molting hens, rations for, 98. 



Monitor-top house, 62. 



Morning mash, 9. 



Mothers, faults of hens as, 4o. 



Mothers, selecting hens for, 46. 



Nature's checks and balances. 114. 



Nest boxes for sitting hens, 36. 



Nests confining hens to, 40. 



Nest, how to make a, 37. 



Nests for laying hens, 125. 



