598 



POULTRY CULTURE 



Beard, a tuft or fringe of feathers at 

 the throat, sometimes extending to 

 the ears 



Beef scrap, 199 



Beet molasses 



Beet pulp, 197 



Beet tops, 195 



Belgian meat types, 380 



Bib, a biblike patch of color on the 

 breast, as in Blue Swedish Ducks 



Bill, the jaws of waterfowl 



Bird, denned, 5 



Black color, faults of, 527 ; mating to 

 produce, 527 ; occurrence of, in 

 white birds, 525 



Blackhead, a form of liver disease in 

 turkeys, in which the skin of the head 

 and neck turns very dark purple 



Black-red color pattern in fowls, de- 

 scription of the, 357 ; mating, 507 ; 

 modified forms of, 512 



Black-red type, undercolor in the^ 530 



Black rot, a gangrenous disease of the 

 comb 



Black Spanish, 366 



Black Sumatras, 533 



Black-white color pattern in /owls, de- 

 scription of the, 361 



Black- white color types, mating, 518 ; 

 undercolor in, 533 



Blade, the broad rear section of a single 

 comb 



Blopd meal and dried blood, 199 



Body, the trunk. In Standard nomen- 

 clature, that section of the body be- 

 tween the breast and the fluff. See 

 Breast 



Body and germ, relations of, 459 



Bone cutters, 169 



Bones, dry, 203 ; green, 199 



Booted, having feathers on the feet 

 and shanks 



Boston, first poultry show at, 18, 535 



Boswell, description of early poultry 

 houses, 1 08 



Bourbourg Fowl, 423 



Boxes for shipping dressed poultry, 

 322 ; for shipping eggs, 327 ; for 

 shipping eggs for hatching, 585 



Boxing, a term used by game fanciers 

 to describe a beak with upper man- 

 dible shutting closely over the lower 

 one 



Braekel, 383 ; illustrated, 384 



Brahmas, 391 ; Dark, described, 392 ; 

 illustrated, 392, 493; Light, de- 

 scribed, 393; illustrated, 393, 495, 

 519 



Brahmaputras, 385 



Bran, buckwheat, 191 ; corn, 187 ; oat, 

 188 : rice, 192; wheat, 185 



Brassiness, 525 



Brassy, yellowish, applied especially to 

 white plumage with a pronounced 

 yellow tinge 



Breakdown, a condition of partial pa- 

 ralysis in which a bird is unable to 

 stand in a natural, upright position 



Breast, crooked, 341 



Breast, the front of the body of a bird, 

 the depth being measured from the 

 neck to the forward point of the 

 keel bone, the width from shoulder 

 to shoulder of the folded wings, 

 and the fullness by the curvature of 

 these lines 



Breda, 424 



Breed, defined 



Breeder, work of the, 475 



Breeding, conditions of practice in, 2 ; 

 improvement of egg production by, 

 492 ; rule of good practice in, 486 



Breeding quality, effect of age upon, 487 



Breeds, divisions and relations of, 70 



Breeds, influence of improved, 15; 

 laying, 353 



Bresse, 380 



Brewer's grains, 189 



Bricked-up set-kettle, illustrated, 39 



Broilers, description of, 303 ; growing, 

 43 ; packing, 323 



Bronchitis, analogous to same disease 

 in human beings 



Brooder houses, 151 ; illustrated, 42, 

 47, 52, 124, 149, 151-152, 276 



Brooders, coops for indoor, 132 ; kinds 

 of, 277 



Broodiness, 242 ; relation of, to egg 

 production, 297 



Brooding temperatures, 275, 280 



Broom-corn seed, 192 



Brown eggs, 326 



Buckeye, description and illustrations 

 of, 416; compared with other breeds 

 of its class, 421 



Bucks County Fowls, 397 



Buckwheat, 191 



Buff color, description of, 397 ; mating 

 for, 513 



Buff-colored birds, undercolor in, 532 



Bumblefoot, a foot having a corn or 

 an abscess which causes lameness, 

 340 



Buttermilk, 201 



Buying poultry on approval, 581 



By-products, use of, as poultry foods, 1 78 



