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INDEX. 



Food for Growing Chickens, 47 49 

 for a Large Number, 22 



for Chickens Artificially Reared, 

 92 



for Prize Chickens, 125 



for Small Number, 22 



, Mixing Soft, 24 



in Winter, 49 



Tail Wheat as, 25 



Various Kinds of, 22, 23 



Vegetable, Necessary, 26 



Vessels for, 25 



When to Give, 20 



Foods, Analysis of Various Poultry, 



23 



Fowl-house, Construction of, 2 5 

 Avoid Draughts in, 2 

 Flooring of, 5 

 Materials for, 27 

 Size of the, 8 

 Sheds and their Value, 

 4,5 



, Ventilation of, 3 



Fowls in Confined Space, 12, 14 



, How to Dispose of Old, 13, 14 



, How to Tell Young, 13 



, Improving Farmer's, 62 



, Keeping in Condition, 123 



Require Care and Attention, 1 



, Washing, 133 



Free Range, 107 



French and English Judges, Opinions 



of, 117 

 French Breeds, General Description 



of, 185194 



, Merits of, 186 



, Varieties of, 187195 



French Duclair Ducks, 237 



Fresh blood, Introduction of, 120 

 Frizzled Fowls, 202 

 Foreign Ducks, 237 



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Game Bantams, 210 



Chickens and Eggs, 211 



Hens, 15 



as Mothers, 35, 1GO 



Game Fowls, Breeding of, 155 



, Description of, 155160 



, Effects of Crossing on, 



160 



, Flesh of, 17, 160 



for Table, 160, 161 

 , Merits of, 160 



Game Fowls, Modern Exhibition, 155 



, Original Varieties, 159 



, Varieties of, 155159 



Gardener's Friend, The, 231 

 Gapes, Treatment of, 97 



Geese, Description of, 238240 



for Exhibition, 240 



, General Management of, 239 



, Varieties of, 238240 



Gold Pheasant, The, 228 

 Gold and Silver Laced Bantams, 208 

 Golden "Mooney " Hamburghs, 176 

 Golden-pencilled Hamburgh, 174 

 Golden Pheasant Fowl, 178 

 Golden Pheasant, The, 228 

 Golden-spangled Hamburgh, 176 

 Golden-spangled Polish, 183 

 Goslings, 239 

 Grass Runs, 7 



for Chickens, 46, 134 



Green Food, 26 



Grey or Coloured Dorkings, 162 

 Grit or Gravel for Fowls, Use of, 29 

 Ground Nests, 36 

 Gueldres or Breda Fowls, 191 

 Guinea Fowl, 221 



, Merits of, 222 



Hamburghs, Description of, 174 



, as Layers, 14, 179 



, Varieties of, 170179 

 Hatching, Artificial, 170 



Artificial, of Pure Breeds, 



123 



Assistance at, 41 



Hearson's Incubator, 87, 

 Hempseed, 135 

 "Hen Fever, "The, 141 

 Hens Desiring to Sit, 13, 38 



Leaving Nest, 40 



Henny Game Fowl, The, 159 

 Holmesdale, Lady, her Dorkings, 107 

 Houdans as Layers, 14 



, Description of, 190 



, Weight of, 140 



House for Fowls, 24 



for the Farm, 67 



How to Keep Eggs for Setting, 33 

 How to Pack Eggs for Setting, 12n 

 Hybrid Pheasants, 229 

 Hydro- Incubator, The, 73 



, Essential Points of, 



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