INDEX. 



309 



Middlings, 29 

 Milk Chickens, 85 



for Chickens, 58; for Fowls 



Fattening, 88, 117 

 Minorcas, 200 ; Crossed, 201 

 Mites, 303 



Mixing Soft Food, 30 

 Moisture in Incubators, 74 

 Mooneys, 211, 213 

 Mortar, Old, for Fowls, 35 

 Moulting, Bad, 288 ; Treatment at, 35 

 Muscovy Ducks, 277 



N 



Naked Necks, 244 



Nankin Bantams, 249 



National Poultry Company's Plan, 15 



Nervous Debility, 295 



Nests, n ; for Sitting Hens, 45 



Norton, Mr., and Poultry-Farming, 



121 

 Number of Eggs for Sitting, 49 



Oats, Value of, 30 ; Ground, 30 

 Old English Game Fowls, 190 

 Old Fowls for Table, 95 

 Oliver, Mr. , on Fattening Sheds, 88 

 Orpingtons, 239 ; Buff, 241 

 Over-feeding, Evils of,23; of Chickens, 



So 

 Oyster-shell, Use of, 35 



Packing Eggs for Sitting, 150 

 Partridge Cochins, 168 

 Paternity on Change of Cock, 148 

 Pea-comb in Brahmas, 174 ; in Indian 



Game, 182 

 Pea -Fowl, 264 

 Peat-Moss Litter, 5 ; in Brooders, 78 



Pekin Bantams, 250 



Ducks, 274 



Pencilled Hamburghs, 210 



Penning Fowls before Exhibition, 159 



Pens for Fattening Fowls, 88 



Perches, 10 



Petit Poussins, 85, 114 



Pheasant Malays, 183 



Phoenix Fowls, 246 



Pile Game, 188 



Pip, 296 



Plans for Small House and Run, i , 

 Larger Establishments, 16, 20 



Plucking Fowls, 92 



Plymouth Rocks, 229 



Pneumonia, 296 



Points, Breeding for, 131 



Polish Fowls, 215 



Poultry- Farming, 108 ; Conditions of 

 Success, no ; Examples in Eng- 

 land, 114; in America, 121 



Poultry Mixture as Food, 32 



Yards, 16 



Potatoes, 28 ; Peelings, 27 



Practical Management, 23 



Press, Influence of the, 163 



Pressing Poultry, 94 



Prize Poultry, Breeding, 131 ; rearing, 

 MS 



Profit from Poultry, 40, 96 



Ptarmigans, 219 



Purchasing Fowls, 38, 145 



Rake for Poultry-run, 15 



Rankin, Mr., on Moisture in Eggs 



during Hatching, 75 

 Rats, 4, 304 

 Ready-made Fowl-houses, 5 ; their 



Limitations, 6 

 Rearing Chickens, 52, 75; Turkeys, 



259; Ducks, 267; Geese, 281 

 Prize Poultry, 150 



