572 



INDEX 



Rations, mixing, 207 



outlined, 215 



storing, 211 



summer changes in, 275 



Vineland contest, 559 



war-time, 558 



Rats, protection against, 110 

 Receipts, as influenced by war, 531 

 Recessive, meaning in Mendel's law, 231 

 Reciprocal crosses, 250 

 Records, 453 



breeding, 454 



brooding, 460, 461 



egg, 278 



feeding, 459 



hatching, 320 



importance of, 453 



incubator, 345, 456 



inventory, 455 



labor, 461 



methods of keeping, 162 



of sitting hens, 320 



pen, 455 



planning of, 453 



sitting, 458 



young stock, 461 

 Red mites, 508 

 Reference reading, 5 

 Regularity in feeding, 212 

 Retailer, selling to, 423 

 Returns, 424 



rapidity of, 30 



Revenue, sources and amount of, 519-523 

 Rhode Island Reds, 93 



origin of, 71 

 Rice, value, 192 



Right-angle triangle, use of, 125 

 Roads, 52 

 Roaster, breeds of, 388 



defined, 386 



dressing, 418 



farming, South Shore, 18 

 Roasters, chapter on, 376-402 



distribution of, 385 



features of, 388 



management, 389 



prices, 387 



types, 387 



Roofing materials, 122 

 Roofs, types, 114 

 Roosting quarters, 145 

 Root crops, 200 

 Roundworms, 511 

 Running water, advantages of, 49 

 Russia, poultry farming in, 39 

 Rye, value and usage, 191 



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 Salesman, 422 



responsibility of, 427 

 Salt, 184, 212 

 Sanitation, 110, 497 

 Sarcoptes mutans, 508 

 Scalding, 414 

 Scaly legs, 509 

 Score card, decimal, 490 



dressed poultry, 492 

 market poultry, 492 

 official, 489 

 types of, 488 

 Scoring, 488 



dressed poultry, 491 



eggs, 492 



poultry plant, 493 

 Scratch feeding grains, 214 

 Scratching ration, Cornell, 219 



New Jersey, 217 

 Segmentation denned, 307 

 Selection defined, 251 



for egg production, 254 



hatching eggs, 287 



importance of, 281 



judges, 385 



layers, 275 



live birds, 101 



pullets at maturity, 270 



show birds, 479 



Selling value pure-bred birds, 99 

 Semi-community system, 51 

 Senses, development of, 298 

 Setting coops, cleanliness, 320 



materials for, 316 

 Setting the hen, 318 

 Sex adaptation,' 30 



control, 250 



limitation, 243 

 Sexes, separation, 324 

 Sexual dimorphism, 261 

 Shade, 371 



Shanks, changes due to laying, 538 

 Shape, a breed characteristic, 68 



of laying house, 112 



selection for, 102 

 Shaping, 417 

 Shed roof, 115 

 Shell for chicks, 359 



membranes, 304 



structure and composition, 302 



usage, 212 

 Shipping dressed poultry, 744 



ice in, 447 



methods of, 428 



