INDEX. 



307 



Early Chickens, 146 



Earth as a Deodoriser, 15 



East India Ducks, 279 



Edwards, Miss, and Poultry Farming, 



118 



Egg for Chickens, 56 

 Egg-eating, 300 

 Eggs, Individuality of, 37 ; for Setting, 



42, 149 ; Fertility of, 42, 48 ; Sex 



of, 44 ; Breeding for, 99, 105, 109, 



112, 114, 119, 126, 144 

 Embden Geese, 283 

 Even Feeding from the Shell, 87 

 Exhibition, 157 ; Care of Stock for, 



158 ; Diet at, 163 ; Return after, 



164 



Family Likeness, 132 



Farm, Poultry on the, 96, 106 



Farming, Poultry, 198 



Fasting Fowls before Killing, 82 



Fat, Avoidance of, 24 



Fattening Table Poultry, 88 



Faverolles, 226 ; and Houdans, 227. 



Feathers, 36 



Feather-eating, 301 ; in Malays, 181 ; 



in Andalusians, 205 

 Feeding, Mistakes in, 24 ; Corrected 



by Handling at Night, 24 ; 



Number of Meals per Day, 26 ; 



for Market, 87 



Fencing for Runs, 14, 22, 113, 120 

 Fertility of Eggs, 42, 146 

 Fixing of Points, 136 

 Fleas, 303 

 Flint Grit, 36 

 Flocks, Separate, 102 

 Floor of Fowl-house, 4 

 Flying, Prevention of, 14 

 Food for Poultry, 23 ; Analysis of, 29 ; 



Quantity of, 2-5 



Food for Newly-hatched Chickens, 51 

 Foods, Analysis of, 29 

 Forester Incubator, 67 ; the Re- 

 gulator, 69 

 Fowl-houses, i 



Fowler, Mr., on Farm Poultry, 99 

 Foxes and Poultry, 108, 304 

 Free Range, 14 

 French Breeds of Poultry, 220 

 Fresh Blood, 135, 137 

 Eggs for Setting, 43 

 Frizzled Fowls, 243 

 Fruit Trees and Poultry, 113 

 Funnels for Cramming, 89 



Gallina, The, 263 



Galvanised Iron Roofs, 3 



Game Bantams, 251 



Fowls, 185 ; Colours of, 186 ; 



Dubbing, 189 ; Old English, 190 

 Gapes, 293 

 Geese, 279 



Gloss, Feeding for, 158 

 Gout in Chickens, 81 

 Grain, 31 



Grass-Runs, 16 ; in America, 130 

 Green Food, 33 ; for Chickens, 58 ; 



for Fattening Fowls, 89 ; for 



Prize Chickens, 151 

 Grit or Gravel, 35 

 Ground, Nests on the, 46 

 Gueldres, 225 

 Guinea-Fowls, 263 



H 



Hamburghs, 209 



Hampers for Exhibition, 162 



Hatching, 50 ; Strength for, 43 ; 



Artificial, 61 ; Eggs for, 149 

 Hearson's Incubator, 64 



