INDEX 



605 



Laced, having the feathers marked with 

 a band or stripe around the edge. 

 The term is used only with reference 

 to ordinary and wide feathers. The 

 long, narrow feathers of the hackles 

 of cocks and hens and the saddles of 

 cocks, when marked in this way, are 

 said to be striped 



La Fleche, 380 



Lakenvelder, 368 ; illustrated, 369 



Lamp brooders, 278 



Langshans, Black, 389 ; illustrated, 390, 

 524; White, 390; illustrated, 391, 524 



Laws of heredity, 468 



Laying types, 352, 368, 447 



Leaf comb. See Comb 



Leaves for litter, 209 



Leghorns,355 ; and Minorcas compared, 

 365; Black, illustrated, 360; Buff, 357; 

 illustrated, 358, 529-53 1 ; Brown, 356 ; 

 illustrated, 356, 508-511; Cuckoo, or 

 Dominique, 362 ; Duckwing, 362 ; 

 illustrated, 362-363 ; Mottled (see 

 Ancona); Pile, 361; White, 359; 

 illustrated, 359, 521-523 



Leg weakness, in healthy young birds, 

 lack of strength to carry weight 



Length, of body in relation to table 

 properties, 500; of poultry houses, 119 



Lettuce, 195 



Lice, 342 ; prevention and treatment 

 of, 283 



Light Brahma. See Brahmas 



Lighting, candling 



Light Sussex, 378 



Limber neck, a symptom indicating 

 acute indigestion, ptomaine poison- 

 ing, or internal parasites 



Lime breeding, 485 



Limed eggs, eggs preserved in limewater 



Linseed meal, 193 



Literature, collections of, for exhibi- 

 tion, 552 ; influence of, 18 



Litter, materials used for, 209 



Little Compton, R. I., colony system 

 .at, 35 



Live poultry, shipping, 324 



Lobsters, 200 



Long Island duck farms, 49 



Long poultry houses, illustrated, 122- 

 123, 145, 148 



Lopped comb, a comb that from weak- 

 ness at the base falls to one side 



Loss-off, a trade term for a sale of eggs 

 subject to candling by the purchaser, 

 and to deduction for inferior and bad 

 eggs 



Low-grade flour, 184 



Macdonald College, arrangement of 

 colony houses at, 92 ; poultry houses 

 at, illustrated, 135-136, 149 



Madison Square Garden Show, arrange- 

 ment of classes at, 548 ; table showing 

 numbers of birds exhibited in various 

 classes at, 544 



Magyar fowls, 368 



Mail-order poultry trade, 578 



Maine Agricultural College, poultry 

 houses at, illustrated, 137, 149 



Maine Experiment Station, breeding 

 work at, 493 ; count of ovules at, 290 ; 

 observation at, on the relation of 

 growth to laying, 292 ; poultry houses 

 at, 132, 158 



Maine Experiment Station rations, 224 



Malay, relation of the, to Asiatic class, 



384 

 Male, influence of, on egg production, 



494 



Male and female, relative value of, in 

 breeding, 477 



Malines fowls, 424 



Mallard Duck, 438 



Malt sprouts, 189 



Mangel-wurzel, 198 



Mantes fowls, 381 



Manufacturers' directions for operating 

 incubators, 255 



Manufacturing methods not suited to 

 poultry culture, 28 



Manure, market for, 305 



Marbled, having the colors distributed 

 as in marble ; applied particularly to 

 the wings of barred fowls 



Market, requirements of the, as to pick- 

 ing, 318; sorting poultry for, 324 



Market products described, 30 



Markets, extent of, 77 



Maryland Experiment Station, poultry 

 building at, 254 



Mash, 214 



Massachusetts Agricultural College, 

 poultry buildings at, 148, 254, 276 



Mating systems, 491 



Meal, alfalfa, 197; barley, 188; blood, 

 199; broom-corn-seed, 192; clover, 

 197 ; corn, 187 ; cottonseed, 193 ; glu- 

 ten, 187 ; hominy, 187; linseed, 193; 

 meat, 199; pea, 194; sorghum seed, 

 192 ; soy bean, 194 



Mealy, unevenly marked with specks 

 of another color or shade 



Meat, of poultry as food, 31 



Meat type defined, 71 



Meat types, Asiatic, 384; European, 

 380 



