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INDEX. 



Abbreviations of names of varieties, So. 

 Accompanying exhibits, 207. 

 Adapting business to location, 19. 

 Advertising, 195. 

 African geese, 251. 

 Age for weaning chicks, 181. 

 of breeding stock : 



chickens, 151. 



ducks, 240. 



geese, 253. 



turkeys, 226. 

 eggs for hatching, 168. 

 Ailments of chicks, preventing, 180. 

 Airing eggs in incubators, 178. 

 Alfalfa, 98. 

 Alternate yards, 21. 

 American Dominiques, 68. 

 Poultry Association, 12. 

 Standard of Perfection, 79. 

 Anaemia, 212. 



Analysis of foods (table), 112. 

 Andalusians, 74. 

 Animal meal, 97. 



Anticipating weather changes, 131. 

 Apoplexy, 212. 



Approval, selling stock on, 199. 

 Artificial methods, general remarks on, 175. 

 Ash, no. 



Ashes, using, on droppings boards, 127. 

 Aylesbury ducks, 237. 



Balanced ration, a, 101. 

 Balancing rations, examples, 117. 



use of mash in, 103. 

 Bantams, care of, 217. 



description of varieties of, 220* 



profit in, 217. 

 Barley, 95. 



screenings, 95. 



Barred Plymouth Rocks, description, 65. 



mating, 155. 

 Bed bugs, 215. 

 Beef, raw, 97. 



scraps, 97. 



Beginning with eggs or stock, 90. 

 small capital, 13. 



without capital, 13. 

 Black R. C. Bantams, 219. 



Cayuga ducks, 238. 



Cochin Bantams, 220. 



Cochins, 71. 



East Indian ducks, 239. 



Hamburgs, 76. 



Javas, 68. 



Langshans, 72. 



Leghorns, 73. 



Minorcas, 74. 



Orpingtons, 78. 



Polish, W. C., 75- 



Spanish, 75. 



turkeys, 225. 



varieties, mating, 160. 



Wyandottes, 67. 

 Blackhead, 232. 

 Blood, dried, 97. 

 Blue Andalusians, 74. 

 Bone cutters, 60. 

 Bones, dry, 100. 



green, 97. 



Boxes for droppings, 45. 

 '. v: grit and shell, 56. 



nest, see Nests. 

 Bowel trouble, 212, 180. 

 Brahma Bantams, 220. 

 Brahmas, Dark, description, 69. 

 *$..;. mating, 158; . 



Light, description, 69. 

 mating, 158. 



