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POULTRY CULTURE 



Collection of poultry products, 330 



Collective selection, 481 



College poultry exhibitions, 553 



Colony farming, 40 



Colony houses, illustrated, 41, 45, 87, 



134 

 Colony systems, 81 ; illustrated, 35-39, 



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Color, effect of age on, 554 



Color matings of poultry, 507 ; sorting 

 eggs for, 326 



Colorado Agricultural College poultry 

 houses, illustrated, 125 



Comb, a naked, fleshy growth on the 

 head of a fowl. The principal types 

 of combs are the single comb, a thin, 

 upright, serrated comb ; the rose 

 comb, a broad, flat-topped comb hav- 

 ing typically a well-developed spike 

 at the rear ; the pea comb, a comb 

 with three well-defined rows of small 

 protuberances parallel to its long 

 axis; the forked comb, a V-shaped 

 comb ; the leaf comb, a V comb in 

 which the parts are thin and flat ; 

 the antler comb, a V comb having 

 the parts branched like antlers ; the 

 strawberry comb, a small, round rose 

 comb ; the cup comb, a leaf comb in 

 which the parts are joined near the 

 base, forming a cup 



Comb, an index to laying, 472; rela- 

 tions of the, to methods, 66, 72 ; 

 symptoms in disease, 340 



Combinations in poultry culture, 61 



Comfort, relation of, to egg production, 

 294 



Commercial features of shows, 536 



Commercialism, influence of, 23 



Comparison judging, 542 



Compensation principle in breeding, 

 484 



Competition as a factor in exhibitions, 

 538 



Condiments, 214 



Conditioning exhibition poultry, 555 



Conjunctivitis, sore eyes usually fol- 

 lowing a cold ; early stage of keratitis 



Connecticut, turkey growing in, 58 



Connecticut Agricultural College, 

 brooder houses at, illustrated, 149; 

 colony houses at, illustrated, 132; 

 Pekin Ducks at, 502 



Constitution, a matter of inheritance, 

 266 ; relation of, to development of 

 type, 472 ; relation of, to egg pro- 

 duction, 296 



Constitutional causes of disease, 338 



Contagious diseases, 339 



Cook houses, illustrated, 38 



Cooling dressed poultry, 319; eggs in 

 incubators, 258 



Cooperation in selling poultry prod- 

 ucts, 335 



Coops, ancient and modern, illustrated, 

 106, 131; decorating, at poultry shows, 

 550; for indoor brooders and growing 

 chicks, 132 ; for live market poultry, 

 324 ; for shipping fancy poultry, 584 



Corn, 185 



Corn, a thickening of the skin on the 

 sole of the foot, due to abrasion 



Cornell trap nests, 163 



Cornell University, features of poultry 

 keeping at, 136, 170, 270, 272 ; Cornell 

 University rations for poultry, 230 



Cornfields, poultry in, 270 



Cornish Indian Game, 350 ; Dark, .il- 

 lustrated, 348; Red- Laced, illustrated, 

 351 ; White, illustrated, 350 



Corn leaves, feeding green, 195 



Correlation of characters, 471 



Correspondence in selling fancy poul- 

 try, 581 



Cotton cloth for windows and doors, 



"3 



Cotton-cloth front in northerly latitudes, 



1 37 

 Cotton fish netting as a substitute for 



wire netting, 557 

 Cotton seed, 192 



Cotton tail, a tail showing much unde- 

 sirable white, especially at the base 

 Courtes Pattes, 382 

 Coverts, feathers which partly cover 



large, stiff feathers, as wing coverts, 



tail coverts 

 Cowpeas, 194 

 Crabs, 200 

 Cracked corn, 186; eggs in incubators, 



258 



Cramming, 213, 308 

 Crate feeding, 233, 307 

 Creameries, eggs, handled by, 331 

 Creamy, creamy white, 525 

 Creepers, 382 

 Crest, a tuft of feathers on the head ; 



relation of large, to methods, 66, 72 

 Crevecosur, 381 

 Crop, function of, 174 

 Crops, differences in, 175 

 Crop-bound, having an impaction of 



food in the crop 

 Cross, to breed together individuals of 



different varieties or breeds 

 Crossbred, produced by cross breeding 



