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POULTRY CULTURE 



Rape, 195 



Rapeseed, 195 



Rate of growth in poultry, 284 



Ratio, nutrient, 180 



Ration, 206; power of poultry to bal- 

 ance, 179 



Rations, effects of changing, 295 ; exam- 

 ples of, 220 ; for special purposes, 210 



Rattling in the throat, a symptom of 

 sore throat 



Reach, reachiness, reachy ; applied 

 especially to Exhibition Games and 

 Game Bantams. A bird that, when 

 posed, will stretch upward, increasing 

 its height and still balancing itself 

 easily on its legs, has reach and is 

 reachy in proportion to its ability to 

 respond to efforts to make it stretch. 

 A bird that is not properly balanced 

 on its legs cannot reach. Such a bird 

 is said to be clubby 



Recessiveness, 467 



Redcap, 379 



Red-dog flour, 216 



Red fowls, mating, 513 ; undercolor in, 



S3 2 



Red in white fowls, 525 

 Refuse food for poultry, 185 

 Regression from type, 475 

 Regularity, effect of, on egg production, 



294 



Reproduction, kinds of, 459 

 Reproductive organs, 289 ; functional 



activity of the, 293 

 Reptiles, relation of, to birds, 174 

 Reversion, 467 

 Rhode Island Agricultural College, 



poultry houses at, illustrated, 133, 142 

 Rhode Island Colony system, 81 

 Rhode Island Red, 82, 413 ; illustrated, 



413-415, 528 

 Ribbon, the broad, lustrous blue-green 



band on the wing of a Mallard or a 



Rouen Duck 

 Rice, 191 

 Ring, a band of white on the neck of a 



dark bird, as in Mallard and Rouen 



drakes and Ringneck pheasants 

 Ring judging, 551 

 Ringy, having the bars on the feathers 



so disposed that the light and dark 



bars on contiguous feathers match 



closely and form extended lines or 



rings. This style of barring is also 



called zebra barring 

 Roach back, a convex back in a bird 



of a breed which has typically a 



straight back or a concave back 



Roasters, 304; method of packing, 321 



Roofs, styles of, 121 



Rooster, a cock 



Roosting closets, 159 



Roosting coops, 109 



Roosting sheds, 270 



Roosts, 1 56 ; for turkeys, illustrated, 58 



Root cutters, 169 



Rose comb. See Comb 



Rot, the trade name for a rotten egg 



Rouen Ducks, 439, 534 ; illustrated, 

 502, 532 



Roundworms, intestinal worms 



Roup, the common name for diseases 

 of the respiratory organs of poultry, 

 340 



Roupy, having symptoms of roup, es- 

 pecially catarrhal symptoms 



Rudder tail, a fantail 



Rumpless fowls, 425 



Run, a yard, especially a small yard 

 for poultry 



Rye, 189 



Saddle, the rear part of the back of a 

 cock, just before the tail 



Sale classes at shows, 549 



Salt in poultry food, 214 



Sanitation, 337 



Scabies, a skin disease of gallinaceous 

 poultry caused by the depluming 

 mite 



Scalding, food, 216; poultry, 314 



Scales of points, use of, in judging, 567 



Scaly leg, a foot disease of gallinaceous 

 poultry caused by a mite which bur- 

 rows under and gradually destroys 

 the scales, 339 



Score-card judging, 567 



Scraps, beef, 199 ; fish, 200 ; pork, 199 



Scratching-shed houses, 113; illus- 

 trated, no, 115 



Screenings, barley, 189; wheat, 184 



Scrub, an ill-bred or ill-developed bird 



Secondaries, the secondary flight 

 feathers 



Selection, artificial and natural, 478 ; 

 of a breed or variety, 67 ; of eggs for 

 hatching, 245, 257 ; of an incubator, 

 254 ; of layers, 299 ; of poultry for 

 exhibition, 554 ; relative value of 

 characters in, 480 ; for shape in mat- 

 ing Standard poultry, 504; systems 

 of, 481 



Serrated, having the edge regularly 

 notched. All single combs are ser- 

 rated 



Serration, a point in a serrated comb 



