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INDEX 



Roaster, farming, South Shore, 18 

 Roasters, chapter on, 376-402 



distribution of, 385 



features of, 388 



management, 389 



prices, 387 



types, 387 



Roofing materials, 122 

 Roofs, types, 114 

 Roosting closets, 145 

 Root crops, 200 

 Roundworms, 511 

 Running water, advantages of, 52 

 Russia, poultry farming in, 39 

 Rye, value and usage, 191 



S 

 Salesman, 422 



responsibility of, 427 

 Salt, 185, 212 

 Sanitation, 110,497 

 Sarcoptes mutans, 508 

 Scalding, 414 

 Scaly legs, 509 

 Score card, decimal, 490 



dressed poultry, 492 

 market poultry, 492 

 official, 489 

 types of, 488 

 Scoring, 488 



dressed poultry, 491 



eggs, 492 



poultry plant, 493 

 Scratch feeding grains, 214 

 Scratching ration, Cornell, 219 



New Jersey, 217 

 Segmentation defined, 307 

 Selection defined, 251 



for egg production, 254 



hatching eggs, 287 



importance of, 281 



judges, 485 



layers, 275 



live birds, 101 



pullets at maturity, 270 



show birds, 479 



Selling value pure-bred birds, 99 

 Semi-community system, 46 

 Senses, development of, 298 

 Setting coops, cleanliness, 320 



materials for, 316 

 Setting the hen, 318 

 Sex adaptation, 30 



control, 250 



limitation, 243 

 Sexes, separation, 324 



Sexual dimorphism, 261 



Shade, 371 



Shape, a breed characteristic, 68 



of laying house, 112 



selection for, 102 

 Shaping, 417 

 Shed roof, 115 

 Shell for chicks, 359 



membranes, 304 



structure and composition, 302 



usage, 212 

 Shipping dressed poultry, 447 



methods of, 428 



need of facility in, 43 



to exhibition, 482 

 Show, arrangement of, 485 



running, 483 



Side line, poultry keeping as a, 26 

 Silkies, 77 

 Simplicity, 111, 143 

 Sitting hen, care of, 319, 322 

 selection of, 317 

 when to set, 315 



qualities of egg breeds, 80 



of general-purpose breeds, 88 

 of the meat breeds, 85 



records of, 458 

 Situation defined, 41 



important factors in, 49 

 Size, importance of in breeding, 258 



of laying house, 110 



of stock, 102 

 Skeleton, 292 



Skim milk, composition, 196 

 Skunks, 512 

 Slips, 398 

 Slope, best, 52 

 Soil effect on color, 264 



effect on fertility, 31 



proper condition of, 48 



undesirable types, 49 

 Solid color, breeding for, 263 

 Somatic defined, 234 

 Sorghum, 192 

 South Shore roasters, 18 

 Spaying, 401 



Spraying for cleanliness, 273 

 Spring, for water supply, 53 

 Sprouted oats, advantages, 190 

 composition, 191 

 manner of sprouting, ISO 

 Standard bred defined, 94 



poultry, exhibition of, 477 



classification defined, 66 

 table of, 66, 67 



of excellence, use of, 225 



