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INDEX. 



Pekin Bantams, 209 

 Perches, 4 



Peruvian Swan, The, 240 

 Pheasants, 225229 



, Merits of, 227 



, Varieties of, 228 



Phoenix Fowls, 204 

 Piles (Game), 158 

 Pip, 98 



Plucking Fowls, 58, 59 

 Plymouth Kocks as Breeding Fowls, 

 15 



, Merits of, 196, 197 



Polish or Polands, Description of, 



180 



, Diseases to which liable, 185 



, Merits of, 184 



, Varieties of, 181184 



Portable Wooden Houses, 107 

 Potatoes as Food, 22, 24 

 Poultry on the Farm, 60 

 Poultry-houses, 2, 67 

 Poultry-yard, .Plan of, 9, 11 



, Mr. H. Lane's, 102 



, Sir H.iThompson's, 105 



, Space necessary, 8 



Preparations for Showing, 132 135 

 Preserving Condition in Fowls, 122 

 Preventing Birds from Flying, 11 

 Principles of Breeding Exhibition 



Fowls, 118123 

 Prize Poultry, 100, 137 

 Process of Development, 112 

 Profits of Poultry-keeping, 30 

 Proper System of Feeding, 21 

 Protected Euns, 47 

 Ptarmigans, 184 



Purchasing Exhibition Birds, 119 

 Pure Breeds Denned, 109 

 Putting out the Chickens, 43 



Qualities of Dorkings, 165 

 Quality of Table Fowls, 55 



Rearing Chickens, 41 



Artificially, SG 



Turkeys, 219 



Redcaps, Description of, 179 



, Merits of, 129 



Regulators for Incubators, 71, 80 

 Resting Travelled Eggs, 85 



Rice as Food, 48 

 Hooting for Fowl-houses, 3 

 Rouen Ducks, 233 

 Rose-combed Leghorns, 198 

 Roup, Treatment for, 99 

 Rumpless Fowls, 202 

 Runs for Fowls, 7 



, Grass, 7 



, Wire-covered, 47 



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Salt in Food, 22 

 Scaly Legs, 99 

 Schroder's Incubator, 70 

 Scotch Greys, Description, 200 

 Sebright Bantams, 206 

 Secret of Fattening Chickens Pro- 

 fitably, 54, 55 



Secret of Washing Fowls, 134 

 Secrets of Artificial Hatching, 91 

 Selection in Breeding, 14, 15, 113 

 Selecting Eggs for Setting, 38, 39 

 Separating Fowls on Farms, 67 



the Sexes, 129 



Setting, Eggs for, 32 



Sex of Eggs, 33 



Sexes, Separation of the, 101, 129 



Shanghaes or Cochins, 141 



Sharps as Food, 22, 48 



Sheds for Shelter, 4, 68 



Shelter Coops, 44 



Silkies, Description of, 201 



Silver Pheasant Fowl, 178, 229 



Grey Dorkings, 114, 103 



Laced Bantams, 208 



Pencilled Hamburgh, 174 



Spangled Hamburgh, 177 



Polish, 182 



Singeing, Dead Poultry, 58 

 Sitting Hens, 34, 35 

 Snow in Water, 27 

 Soft Eggs, 99 



Soft Food for Fowls, 21, 24 

 Spanish Fowls, 14, 18 



, Black Rot in, 173 



, Merits of, 173 



, Varieties of, 166172 



Spratt's Food, 48, 127, 137 

 Sterile Eggs, 39 

 Storing Eggs, 33 

 Sultans, Description of, 183 



, Weight of, 184 



Swan, The, 240 

 "Sweepings," Dangers of, 25 



