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INDEX 



Fat, uses of, in the body, 170 

 Fattening, chapter on, 403-421 



feeding for, 175 



methods of, 403 



Feathering, changes due to laying, 539 

 Feathers, care of, 448 



growth in embryo, 310 



marketing, 448 



Features essential in poultry houses, 105 

 Fecundity, inheritance of, 233 

 Feed for breeding, 286 



trough, 153 



wagon, 207 



Feed-house design, 204 

 Feeding appliances, 206 



chicks, 358 



clean, 498 



during the winter, 270 



effect of heavy, 256 



on egg production, 268 



equipment, 204 



importance of regularity, 212 



objects of, 175 



practice of, 204 



principles of, 169 



proportion of mash to grain, 275 



records, 459, 461 



standards, their practicability, 176 



stuffs, 184-203 



weight and volume, 555 



systems of, 212 

 Feeds, animal, 1S4 



as related to product, 178 



for poultry, 184 



must carry variety, 180 



natural, 179 



ready mixed, 194 



use of stimulating, 182 

 Females, number to one male, 285 

 Fence bracing, 163 



height of, 164 



ideal, 165 



maintenance of, 167 



material for, 163 

 Fertility, discussion of, 306 



in hatching eggs, 428 



increase in, 31 

 Figuring ration, 207 

 Financial, summary, 519-523 

 Fish scrap, composition of, 196 



manufacture, 195 

 Fixed capital denned, 195 

 Fixtures, location of, 143 

 Flax seed, its use and value, 192 

 Flock, fattening, 403 



size of, 270 



Flocks, size of as affecting profits, 526 

 Floors, construction of, 117 

 ideal concrete, 131 

 space related to capacity, 109 

 Food consumption, 224 



for egg production, 176 

 for fattening, 176 

 for growing stock, 374 

 for growth and maintenance, 176 

 Foraging abilities of egg breeds, 80 

 of general-purpose breeds, 89 

 of meat breeds, 85 

 Foreign poultry keeping, 35 

 Austria-Hungary, 39 

 Belgium, 38 

 Denmark, 38 

 English, 35 

 French, 37 

 Ireland, 36 

 Italy, 38 

 Russia, 39 

 Foundation, laying out, 124 



types of construction, 116 

 Fowls, 376 



biological classification of, 63 

 composition of body, 169 

 Fowls, nomenclature of, 550 

 origin of, 63 

 parts of, 550 



physiological description of, 292 

 Frame, manner of constructing, 128 

 Frames for concrete wall, 126 

 Framing poultry-house materials, 118 

 France, poultry farming in, 37 

 Free range, 158 



French breeds, possibilities of, 76 

 Fresh air, need of, 108 

 Frizzles, characteristics of, 78 

 Frozen combs, 505 

 Fryers, 385 

 Functional activity, 242 



effect in breeding, 228 

 variation, 238 



Callus banktva, 63 

 Games, ancestry of, 76 



characteristics, 76 

 Gametic denned, 234 

 Gapeworm, 510 

 Gasoline brooder, 354 

 Gate, construction of, 166 



location, 165 

 General-purpose breeds, classification, 



