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INDEX. 



Rearing, Artificial, 76 



Redcaps, 214 



Red Mite, 303 



Regulators for Incubators, 65, 69 



Resting Travelled Eggs, 149 



Reversion in Breeding, 133, 135 ; 

 Produced by Crossing, 137 



Rew, Mr., on Poultry-fattening in 

 Sussex, 116 



Rheumatism, 294, 296 



Rice as Food, 28 



Risks in Breeding, Unknown, 139 ; 

 Deliberate, 142 



Roofing for Poultry-houses, 3 



Roosting, Too Early, 152 



Rouen Ducks, 272 



Rouillier and Arnoult, and Hydro- 

 incubators, 62, 63 



Roup, 297 



Rumpless Fowls, 244 



Runs, Small, 4 ; Size of, 14 ; Care of 

 Small, 5, 15 ; Grass, 15 ; Less 

 Extent in America, 130 



Salt in Food, 27 



Scaly Legs, 298 



Schroder, Mr., and Moisture in Incu- 

 bators, 61 



Scotch Greys, 238 



Scraps from Household, 27 



Season and Fertility, 147 ; and Food, 

 28 



Sebright Bantams, 247 



Seeds, Fowls and Damage to, 103 



Selling Classes, 145 



Connection, Necessity of 



Building up, 113 



Separation of Flocks, 102 ; of Sexes, 

 152 



Sex of Eggs, 44 



Sexes, Breeding specially for, 143 ; 

 Separation of, 152 ; Signs of, 152 



Shanks, Colour of, 155 



Shaping Troughs, 93 



Sharps, 28, 29 



as Food, 28 



Shedding, 4 



Shelf, Use in a Fowl-house, 8, 104 



Silkies, 242 



Silver-grey Dorkings, 194 



Singeing Table Poultry, 91, 93 



Sitting Hen, The, 44 



Sittings of Eggs, Purchased, 149 



Snow in Water, 34 



Soft Eggs, 298 



Food, Benefit of, 26 ; For a few- 

 Birds, 27 ; Mixing, 30 



Space and Number, Relation of, 15 



Spangled Hamburghs, 211 



Polish, 217 



Spanish, 197 



Spring Chickens, 86 



Standards of Excellence, 163 



Sterile Eggs, 48 



Storing Eggs, 44 



Strain, what it is, 132 ; Commencing 

 a, 141 



Straw for Bedding, n, 152 



Strength in Chickens, 146 



Sulphur during Moult, 35 



Sultans, 218 



Surrey Fowls, 86 ; Shaping, 93 



Sussex, Poultry Fattening in, 88, 106 

 116 



Swans, 286 



System of Management, 37 



Table-Scraps, Uses and Dangers of, 

 27, 28 



Table Poultry, 82; Conformation of 

 Good, 83 ; in America, 86 ; 

 Crosses for, 84 ; Kinds of, 85 ; 

 to be Fed from Shell, 87 ; Fatten- 

 ing, 88 ; Killing, 91 ; Dressing, 91 



