INDEX. 



Pag 



Air-cell in eggs . . . . . . 19 



Apoplexy .. .. .. 45 



Artificial incubation . . . . 18 



Best layers . . . . . . 27 



Brooders at Moumahaki and Burn- 

 bam .. .. ..22,23 



Brooding chicks.. .. .. 20 



Calway brooder . . . . . . 24 



Causes of disease . . . . 42 



Cholera . . . . . . 44 



Constituents of foods . . . . 37 



Cramming-machine . . . . 41 



Cramp . . . . . . . . 44 



Crop- bound .. .. ,, ..__ 44 



Crossbreds . . . . . . * 27 



Diseases and remedies . . . . 42 



" Dont's " for poultry-keepers . . 50 



Douglas mixture . . . . 37 



Drink and food troughs . . . . 25, 26 



Drinking-fountains . . . . 26 



Ducklings, brooding and feeding . . 46 



Duck-raising .. .. .. 46 



Ducks, fattening . . . . 41 



Dust-bath . . . . . . 43 



Egg-eaters .. ... .. 31 



Egg-organs, disease of . . 45 



Eruption on comb . . . . 45 



Fattening ducks, geese, and turkeys 41 



Fattening fowls . . . . . . 40 



Feeding chickens . . . . 24 



Feeding ducks . . . . . . 47 



Feeding fowls . . . . . . 35 



Feeding-trough, swing . . . . 36 



Fertility of eggs . . . . . . 33 



Foods for poultry . . . . 35 



Fowlhouses . . . . . . 8-16 



Gapes .... 44 



Geese, fattening 

 Geese, raising 

 Hints to beginners 



Capital 



Situation and soil 



Best breed to keep 

 Houses and accommodation 

 In breeding 

 Insect pests 



Instruction in poultry-keeping 

 Leg- weakness .. .. 



Limestone 



Male influence, duration of 

 ^Medicated nest-egg 

 Mixing-trough for soft foods 

 Movable coop 

 Movable fowlhouse 

 Old stock and cockerels . . 

 Packing eggs for hatching 

 Plans of brooders 

 Plans of fowlhouses 

 Record, keeping 

 Roup .. 

 Safety-nest 

 Scaly legs 

 Scratching-shed 

 Sitting-hens, management of 

 Sneezing 



Technical points of a fowl 

 Testing eggs 

 Trap-nests 



Rose's 



Grant's 



Turkeys, fattening 

 Turkey-raising 

 Why eggs fail to hatch . . 



41 



5 



5 

 5 

 6 



27 

 42 

 6 

 45 

 37 

 34 

 43 

 35 

 17 

 16 

 31 

 34 



22-24 



8-16 



32 



43 



31 



45 



43 



34 



45 



3 



28-29 

 30 

 41 

 49 

 33 



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