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Selection the first principle in breeding, 



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of fowls for exhibition, 204. 

 Selling breeding and exhibition stock, 197. 

 eggs and poultry, general remarks, 186. 



for hatching, 200. 

 ducks, 246. 



exhibition and breeding turkeys, 233. 

 geese, 256. 

 inferior poultry, 194. 

 market turkeys, 239. 

 poultry and eggs to family trade, 193. 

 stock by the score, 198. 

 C. O. D., 197. 

 on approval, 199. 

 Semi-monitor top house, 34. 

 Separating the sexes while growing, 182. 

 Separation the object of selection, 147. 

 Setting hens, 167. 

 Sex, control of, 152. 

 Sexes, separating, 182. 

 Shape, importance of, 148. 

 Shell, boxes for, 56. 



oyster, 100. 

 Shelter for: 



geese, 250. 

 goslings, 255. 

 poultry house, 21. 

 turkeys, 222. 

 Shingles, 51. 



Shipping dressed poultry to market, 190. 

 eggs for hatching, 201. 



to market, 187. 

 fowls to shows, 207. 

 high class fowls, 199. 

 live poultry to market, 190. 

 Short days, difficulty in feeding on, 133. 

 Shorts, 94. 



Sick hens going broody, 140. 

 Silkies, 79. 



Silver Duckwing Leghorns, 74. 

 Gray Dorkings, 77. 

 Penciled Hamburgs, 75. 



Polish, 75. 

 Spangled Hamburgs, 75. 



Polish, 75. 

 Wyandottes, description, 67. 



mating, 158. 

 Sites for duck houses, 235. 



goose growing, 249. 

 Sitting hens, care and food of, 168. 

 Situation, general remarks on, 20. 



Size and laying qualities, 124. 



importance of, in breeding stock, 149. 

 Slate turkeys, 224. 

 Snow, effects on fowls, 132. 

 Soils suited for poultry keeping, 21. 

 Sorghum seed, 96. 

 Spanish, White Faced Black, 75. 

 Squab broilers, 189. 

 Standard fowls, mating, 154. 



of food values, 115. 

 Perfection, 79. 



Standard bred, definition, 61. 

 Stationery, the breeders', 197. 

 Stimulants, 99, 116. 

 Sulphur and lime for lice, 215. 

 Sultans, 79. 

 Sumatras, 79. 



Sunlight, importance of, 21. 

 Surplus stock house, 49. 

 Sweet potatoes, 98. 



Tape worms, 214. 



in turkeys, 232. 

 Temperature of brooder, 180. 



egg chamber, 176. 

 Tested rations, see Rations. 

 Testers, egg, 169. 

 Testing eggs, 169. 



foods, 97. 



varieties, 82. 



Thoroughbred, definition, 61. 

 Tobacco for lice, 215. 

 Tonics, 99. 

 Toulouse geese, 254. 

 Town lot, breeds for, 86. 



cheap house for, 24. 

 Troughs, feed, 54. 

 Turkeys adapted to all sections, 222. 



care of laying, 226. 

 young, 228. 



catching, 231. 



diseases of, 231. 



dressing for market, 231. 



feeding from shell to market, 228. 



ground suitable for, 222. 



hatching, 227. 



houses for, 222. 



keeping in confinement, 224. 



market for, 230. 



mating, 226. 



profit in, 222. 



raising artificially, 227. 



