536 



INDEX 



Vitality, signs of low, 256 

 Vitelline membrane, 301 

 Vitellus denned, 301 



W 



Walls, materials for, 118 

 Washing birds, 479 

 Waste land, 42 



products, 31 

 Water, elevating for storage, 53 



for chicks, 359 



importance of fresh, 52 



in eggs, 184 



in fowl's body, 170 



necessity of, 173, 180 



sources of, 52, 184 



uses of, 173 



Water-glass, use of, 441 

 Weaning chicks, 324, 368 

 Weasels, 512 

 Weight, 102 



Weights of breeds, table, 70 

 Wet mash, 213 

 Wheat as a poultry food, 179, 193 



bran, composition, 193 

 manufacture, 187 



flour, 188 



Wheat middlings, 187, 193 

 screening, 188 



Whey, 196 



White diarrhoea, 364 



White-faced Black Spanish, origin, 73 



Windows, arrangement, 106 

 for laying house, 120 



Wings, 292 



Winter quarters, 269 



Wire, poultry fencing, 163 



Working plans, half-monitor house, 137 

 long laying house, 132 

 portable laying house, 140 

 two-thirds span house, 135 



Wyandottes, 71, 91 



Yarding, double, 159 

 Yards and yarding, 158 



clean, 499 



cost of, 159 



crop rotation for, 160 



shape of, 159 



size of, 158 



vs. free range, 158 

 Yolk, 304 

 Young stock, record, 461 



