INDEX 



Gains in, 167 



Hens, 1 68 



Length of period in, 170, 171 



Milk for, 169 



Management in, 173 



Plan of battery for, 165 



Rations for, 168, 169 



Tallow in, 169 

 Crops for poultry farm, 225 

 Culling, 188 



Shank color in, 189 



Digestion, 25, 26 



Elimination of waste products 

 in, 28 



Function of organs in, 27 



Of foods, 27 



Tests, 148 



Distiller's grains, 93, 94 

 Dressing poultry, 38 



Drawn vs. undrawn, 178 



Per cent parts in, 38 



Shrinkage in, 38, 178 

 Duck farming, 35 

 Feeding ducklings and breeders, 

 194, 195, 196 



Feeding for market, 195 



Feeding laying ducks, 197 



Green ducks, 196 



Early hatching, 182 

 Egg yield by months, 218 

 Eggs, 28 



Composition, 23 



Feed per dozen, 32 



Per cent edible solids, 30, 32 



Per cent of parts, 28 



Production of vs. poultry, 12 



Size, 28, 29 



Structrue, 28 

 Emmer, 64 

 Epsom salts, 98 

 Exercise, 138, 182 



Farm flock management, 140, 141 

 Farming (poultry), 14 



Duck, 35 



Meat vs. egg, 34 



Soft roaster, 34, 35 

 Fats, function of, 42 



How produced, 18 

 Fattening, 36, 37 



Feed per pound gain, 32 



Hens, 164 



How to, 161 



Milk in, 37 



Pen, 163 



Season for, 38 



See crate fattening, 166 



selection stock for, 162 

 Feather picking, 169 

 Feed, 41 



Amount consumed per hen, 218 



Amount required to produce 

 eggs (table), 216, 217 



Amount required to grow 

 chicks (table), 220 



How analyzed, 41 



Standards, 40 



Value of nutriments, 41 

 Fish Meal, 86, 87 



Oil content, 87 



Where produced, 87 

 Fresh Fish, 87 



For ducks, 196 

 Flax seed, 77 



Feed, 78 

 Food, 27 



Digestion of, 27 



Production by poultry vs. ani- 

 mals, 30 



Value of poultry and eggs, n 

 Forcing, effects of, 191 



Garbage, 142, 143, 144 

 Geese, 198 



Fattening, 200 



Feeding goslings, 199 



Noodling, 201, 202 



Preparing for maiket, 200 

 Grass, 98 



Care of range, TOO, 226 



Varieties of, 100, 101 

 Green Feeds, 97 



Growing of, 227 



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