INDEX 



609 



Set-kettle for cooking feed, 168 



Setting, number of eggs in a, 246 



Sex, function of, 461 ; regulation of, 

 490 



Sexes, equality in transmission of char- 

 acters, 463 ; ratio of, in mating, 488 ; 

 relative value of, in breeding, 477 ; 

 separation of the, while growing, 

 287 



Sexual reproduction, likeness in, 462 



Shades, cloth, for chickens, 270 



Shafting, objectionable prominence of 

 the shaft of a feather, caused by the 

 shaft (and sometimes a little of the 

 web near it) being lighter or darker 

 than the general surface of the 

 feather 



Shafty, having a large amount of shaft- 

 ing in the plumage 



Shanghais, 385 



Shank, the leg between the foot and 

 the hock 



Shape, standards of, 504 ; in table poul- 

 try, 499 



Shaping dressed poultry, 320 



Shell of the egg, 239 



Shellfish, 201 



Sherwood, a white half-Game American 



fowl, rare 

 . Shingles, use of, 126 



Shipping, dressed poultry, 321; fancy 

 poultry and eggs, 584 ; live market 

 poultry, 324 ; poultry to shows, 563 



Shorts, 185 



Shoulder, the highest part of the wing 



Shrunken eggs, eggs having the con- 

 tents partly evaporated 



Siberian Feather- Footed Fowl, 375 



Sickle, a sickle feather, a feather hav- 

 ing the shape of a sickle. The sickles 

 proper are the two long upper plumes 

 in the tail of a cock. The similar in- 

 ferior plumes are called the lesser 

 sickles 



Side sprig, a small spike on the side 

 of a single comb 



Silkies, 425 



Single-mating system, 491 



Singles, single entries, birds entered 

 separately for competition 



Sitting hen, food of the, 248 



Size, relation of, to utility, 482 



Skim milk, 201 



Skin, relation of color of, to quality of 

 flesh, 473 



Slack crop, a pendulous crop, a crop 

 permanently distended and causing 

 deformity 



Slip, a capon which develops some of 

 the male characters usually sup- 

 pressed by castration, 310 



Slipped wing, a wing the primaries of 

 which cannot be properly folded, 506 



Smut, irregular and objectionable edg- 

 ing or tracing of black or dark color 

 on white or light ground 



Snow, effect of, on laying, 130 



Soft-roaster growing, 45 ; illustrated, 



44-47 



Soils, 72, 76 



Solid color, a single color, self color 

 (applied to a pattern) ; of uniform 

 shade (applied to a color) 



Sorehead, chicken pox 



Sorghum seed, 192 



South Shore district, cooperation in the 

 335 ; fattening methods in the, 303 



Soy beans, 194 



Spangle, a large, regular spot at the 

 tip of a feather 



Spanish, Black, illustrated, 367 



Specializing, limitations of, 43 



Speckled, irregularly marked with sev- 

 eral colors 



Spike, of a comb, the rear point of a 

 rose comb 



Spike, loss of a, 557 



Spinach, 195 



Splashed feather, a feather on which two 

 or more colors appear in patches, with 

 no tendency toward any regular pattern 



Split comb. See Comb 



Spot, the trade name for an egg with a 

 bad spot but not yet rotten 



Sprouted oats, 188 



Sprouts, malt, 189 



Spur, the spine on the inside of the 

 shank of a cock. In the hen it is 

 usually rudimentary, but hens often 

 grow long spurs 



Squirrel tail, a tail carried so high that 

 it projects beyond a perpendicular 

 at its junction with the back 



Stag, a young gamecock 



Staggy, hard-meated, like a stag, 310 



Stale bread, 185 



Standard, of the American Poultry 

 Association, 480 



Standard bred, bred to conform to the 

 requirements of the American Poul- 

 try Association's standards 



Standard diagrams, 121 



Standard mashes, 217 



Standard shape, mating for, 504 



Standard-size boxes for dressed poul- 

 try, 322 



