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INDEX 



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Drainage 168 



Drawn and undrawn poultry. . . 371 

 Dressing, loss in weight in. ... 372 



Dropsy 384 



Dust bath 395 



Edible meat on fowl 372 



Egg-laying organs 133 



Egg, structure of 281 



Egg production, limit of 112 



best in first year 127, 183 



progression in 109 



regression in 109 



Eggs, candling 352 



canned frozen 361 



classification of 347 



color of 351 



composition of 217 



conditions that injure 348 



fertility and hatchability of 299 



for hatching 297 



fresh and stale 354 



gathering the 349 



grades of 344 



grading 351 



marking 355 



preservation of 362 



refrigeration of 357 



selling, for hatching 364 



size of 351 



testing 299 



washing 350 



Fattening fowls 274 



batteries 277 



rations 278 



Fats 226 



Fecundity, inheritance of.. . 92, 134 



influence of sire and dam. 107 



Maine station's results. . . 93 

 Oregon station's experiments 96 



sex limited 107 



Feeding and exercise 249 



cooked food 254 



fundamentals of 210 



ground and unground grain 251 



growing stock 268 



hopper . . .'.'.'.'.' 254 



limitations of ..." 212 



methods of 249 



purpose of 223 



rations 256 



small chickens . , . 2(55 



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Fencing 205 



portable 203 



Fish scrap 243 



Food analyses 227 



animal 241 



carbohydrates and fat. . . . 226 



composition of 223 



computing the ratio of. ... 229 



digestibility of 230 



digestion coefficients of . . . 232 



grain 237 



green or succulent 244 



mineral nutrients of 223 



palatability of 234 



protein 214 



relation of, to color of egg 212 



flavor of egg 212 



quality of eggs 212 



size of eggs 215 



yield of eggs 214 



requirements of chickens. . 221 



Fowls, antiquity of 9 



evolution of 11 



origin of 2 



Free range 144 



Fruit trees for shade 206 



Fruit growing and poultry-keep- 

 ing 140 



Fresh air, value of 174, 375 



Fresh ground, preventive of 



diseases ... . 376 



Gallus bankiva 3 



Gape worm 397 



Green food 244 



Grit 247 



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Hen-hatching 291 



Heredity 62 



Hygienic conditions, import- 

 ance of 375 



Historical 1 



House, curtain-front 176 



floor of 184 



foundation 186 



open-front 186 



portable 187, 193 



space required 178 



stationary house 189 



Housing, essentials of 160 



purpose of 1C7 



