INDEX. 



Absence of Hen from Nest, 49 

 Acland, Sir Thomas, and Minorcas, 



201 



Acre, Number of Fowls per, 97, 1 1 1 

 Age for Breeding, 144 



Exhibition, 157 



Air-cell in Hatching Eggs, 75 

 Airing Eggs in Incubators, 73 

 American Breeds, 228, 238 



Incubators, 71 



Poultry-farming, 121 



Analysis of Foods, 29 



Anconas, 205 



Andalusians, 202 



Animal Food, 32 ; for Chickens, 58 



Apoplexy, 287 



Apprenticeship, Necessity of, : 1 1 



Artificial Hatching, 61 



Rearing, 76 



Aseels, 182 



Aspect of Fowl-house, 4 



Aylesbury Ducks, 270 



B 



Back, Meat on the, 87 

 Bantams, 246 

 Barbezieux Fowls, 228 

 Barley, 31 



Barley-meal for Fattening, 89 

 Barn-door Fowls, 40 

 Best Birds, Not Parting with, 141 

 Black-breasted Red Game, 186 

 Black Bantams. 248 



Black Hamburghs, 213 

 Blue Colour, Origin of, 204 



Ducks, 277 



Bourg Fowls, 228 



Brahmas, 174 ; Breeding Lights, 176 ; 



Breeding Darks, 177 ; Changes in 



Breeding, 178 ; Qualities of, 179 

 Bran as Food, 28 

 Breast of a Table-fowl, 83 

 Breast-bone, Breaking the, 92 

 Bredas, 225 

 Breeding for Layers, 99, 105, 109, 



ii2, 114, 119, 126, 128, 144; for 



Points, 131 

 Breeds, Choice of, 39 

 Broken Eggs in Sitting, 47 

 Broilers, 86 

 Broiler-Farms in America, 127 ; Mr. 



Loughlin's Plant, 128 

 Bronchitis, 288 

 Bronze Turkeys, 253, 262 

 Brood Cocks, Care of, 146 

 Brooders, Artificial, 76, 78 

 Broody Hens, 44 

 Brown-breasted Red Game, 187 

 Buckwheat, 31 

 Buenos Ayres Ducks, 279 

 Building Fowl-houses, -2 

 Bumble-foot, 196 

 Buying Fowls, 38, 145 



Call Ducks, 279 

 Cambridge Turkeys, 262 



