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FIR 1ST LESSONS IN POULTRY KEEPING. 



Nests, number needed, 125. 



Nests, skeleton, 126. 



Nitrogenous food elements, 113. 



Noon mash, 9. 



Nutritive ratio, 113. 



Oats as food, 7,115. 



O'Brien's poultry house, 86. 



Original ideas in feeding, 118. 



Orpington type, 26. 



Overcrowding chicks, 57. 



Oyster shell, 8. 



Parti-colors, 27. 



Pattison's poultry house, 80. 



Pea comb, 28. 



Penciled varieties, mating, 32. 



Perfection, physical, 20. 



Pit Game type, 27. 



Plymouth Rock type, 25. 



Polish type, 26. 



Position of walk, 61. 



Potential energy, 113. 



Poultry house fixtures, 120. 



Poultry keeper, defined, 18. 



Poultry shows, 140. 



Prices for drawn and undrawn poultry, 158. 



Proteids, 113. 



Protein, 113. 



Provender, 7. 



Quality in poultry house construction, 62. 



Railroad ties for poultry house, 63. 



Range for chicks, 55. 



Range, yards and, 94. 



Ration, a dry grain, TJ. 



Rations, a few good sample, 11. 



Rations, dry mash, 12. 



Rations for molting hens, 98. 



Ratio, nutritive, 113. 



Bearing chicks with hens, 43. 



Red dog flour, 8. 



Red varieties, mating, 30. 



Resting eggs, 39. 



Roofings, prepared, 64. 



Roofs, styles of, 62. 



Roosting in trees, chicks, 54. 



Roosts, 121. 



Roost, teaching chicks to, 54. 



Rose comb, 28. 



Ryan's poultry house, 83. 



Sales, season of, 164. 



Sample rations, 11. 



Scalding, 158. 



Scaly legs, 143. 



Scientific feeding, so-called, 112. 



Scratching for exercise, 16. 



Scratching room houses, 61. 



Scratching shed houses, 61. 



Selecting hens for mothers, 46. 



Selecting hens to keep over, 92. 



Selection, 19. 



Selection, novices' errors in, 21. 



Selection of exhibition specimens, 141. 



Selection of sitting hens, 38. 



Selling eggs for hatching, 165. 



Selling to private trade, 155. 



Semi-monitor top roof, 62. 



Separate vs. continuous houses, 99. 



Separating chicks, 57. 



Setting hens. 35. 



Shade, 48. 



Shape, breed, 20, 24. 



Shell, S. 



Shelters for chicks, 54. 



Shingles, 64. 



Shipping eggs for hatching, 165. 



Shipping exhibition fowls, 147. 



Shipping stock, 164. 



Short*, 8. 



Show, care of fowls at, 148. 



Shows, poultry, 140. 



Sick fowls, breeding from, 26. 



Silver laced varieties, mating, 33. 



Silver penciled varieties, mating, 32. 



Single comb, 28. 



Single pen houses, 60. 



Sitting heus, food and care of, 39. 



Skeleton nests, 126. 



Special feeding, 96. 



Standard matiugs, 21. 



Standard used in judging, 140. 



Straw for litter, 137. 



Sugar beets, 137. 



Sulpho-napihol for mites, 136. 



Summer, fattening foods in, 97. 



Summer feeding, 95. 



Summer management of fowls, 91. 



Tails, wry, 142. 



Temperature to keep eggs for hatching, < 



Testing eggs, 41. 



Theory of scientific feeding, 113. 



Tiers, placing nests for sitters in, 37. 



Time of feeding, 96. 



Tobacco leaves for nests, &7. 



Toes, 29. 



Troughs, feed, 51, 123. 



Turning eggs kept for hatching, 39. 



Two or more pen houses, 60. 



Types, Asiatic, 25. 



Types, Mediterranean, 25. 



Undercolor, 32. 



Values, the question of, 163. 



Vegetable foods, 8, 16. 



Vegetable mash, 12. 



Ventilation, 60, 94. 



Walk, doing work from, 104. 



Walk, houses with, 61. 



Walks in continuous houses, 104. 



Walls, height of, (52. 



Washing fowls, 14d. 



Water for chicks, 52. 



Wattles, 28. 



Weight, to increase rapidly, 145. 



Wheat, hard vs. soft, 119. 



When to set hens, 38. 



White middlings, 8. 



White varieties, mating, 29. 



Whitewashing, 136. 



Why people fail in poultry keeping, 5. 



Width of house with walk, 64. 



Winter, feeding laying stock in, 14. 



Winter, getting ready for, 133. 



Winter quarters, putting stock into, 135. 



Winter supplies, 136. 



Wyandotte type, 26. 



Yard room for chicks, 55. 



Yards and range, 94. 



Yards, renovating, 136. 



