INDEX 



525 



Carbohydrates defined, 171 



function of, 172 



in feeds, 172 



Card for labor record, 462 

 Care during molt, 286 

 Castor oil, uses, 505 

 Catechu, uses, 505 

 Cayenne, uses, 505 

 Cell defined, 294 



Centres of poultry production, 11 

 Chalazse, location and function, 304 

 Characters, inherited,. 369 

 Charcoal, value, 212 

 Cheapness vs. economy, 210 

 Chicks, banding of, 322 



care of, 323 



death of, 363 



early feeding of, 373 



feeding, 358, 361 



formation of, 300, 307 



marking, 322 



parasites on, 324 



rations for, 324 



transferring, 357 



weaning, 324 

 Chilling chicks, 363 

 Cinders for foundation, 126 

 Circulating capital defined, 58 

 Circulatory system, distribution of, 297 

 Class defined, 69 

 Classification of fowl, biological, 65 



standard and utility, 66 



utility, 78 



Clavicles, description of, 294 

 Clean birds, 499 



feeding, 498 



housing, 497 



yards, 499 



Cleaning poultry houses, 498 

 Cleanliness as related to health, 271 



how maintained, 272 



importance of spraying, 273 



in designing fixtures, 143 



in the sitting coop, 320 

 Climate, proper conditions of, 48 

 Cloaca, location and function, 297 

 Closets, roosting, 145 

 Clover, composition of, 197 

 Cochin, origin of, 72 

 Cold, effect of, 109 

 Collateral reading, 5 

 Colony brooders, 353 



system defined, 46 



possibilities of, 47 

 Color, breeding for, 261 

 harmony defined, 263 



Color harmony, existence of, 263 



value when choosing stock, 102 

 Column system in accounting, 465 

 Combs, frozen, 505 

 Commission merchant, selling to, 423 

 Communication, means of, 43 



need of, 42 



Community house, 46 

 system defined, 45 



possibilities of, 46 

 Comparison judging, 487 



profiting from, 474 

 Composition of bird's body, 169, 170 

 Concrete fence posts, 162 



floor, advantages of, 117 

 construction, 108, 117, 118 

 use of, 110 

 floors, 131 



foundations, 126-127 

 posts, 162 

 Conditioning, 478 

 Consumer, selling to, 423 

 Contour of land, 49 

 Convenience in poultry houses, 106 

 Cooling, 417 



in incubation, 340 

 Cooperation in Denmark, 38 



value of, 40 



Cooperative marketing, 449 

 Corn as a food, 179 



composition of, 193 

 function and usage, 185 

 meal, composition of, 193 



usage, 186 



Cornell rations for layers, 219 

 Cornish fowl, possibilities of, 93 

 Correlation, body characters and function, 



258 



law of, 241 



vitality and body characters, 256 

 Correspondence courses, 3 

 Cost of standard-bred birds, 98 

 Cottonseed meal, 192 

 Cow, hen compared with, 222 

 Cramming, 408 



machine, usage, 408 

 Crate fattening, 404, 405 

 Creaminess, causes of, 263 

 Crop, location and function, 297 



rotation, 159, 160, 372 

 Cross-breeding defined, 246 



object of, 246 

 Crosses, reciprocal, 250 

 Crowding chicks, 363 



effect on vigor, 256 

 Crows, 512 



