INDEX 



Administration Building for Large Plants 84 



Air Space Required for Fowls 11 



Anchoring the Poultry House 16 



Back-Yard Poultry Keeping, Neatness in 25 



Back-Yard Poultry Plant, Laying Out the 25 



Baffler, Cornell Wind 21 



Box for Carrying Fowls 108 



Breeding House, Convenient Eight-Pen 62 



for Mild Climates 63 



One-Pen 57 



Small Two-Pen 57 



Brooder House, Comb. Hot Water and Colony Hover 75 



for Lamp-Heated Hovers 71 



Massachusetts Open Pipe 73 



Single Compartment Colony Hover 77 



Two-Compartment Colony Hover 77 



with Underneath Heating System 74 



Brooding Houses, Capacity of Colony Hover. 78 



Construction, Details of House Design and 11 



Coop, Drying 89 



Coop for Broody Hens 107 



Cost of Building ' 11 



Crates, Fattening 87 



Crematory, A ....110 



Cresol Disinfectant 109 



Curtain-Front Poultry House for 100 Fowls : 35 



Curtains, Muslin Shutters and 19 



Design and Construction, Details of 11 



Dimensions of the Laying House -. 12 



Direct Sunlight in Poultry House 13 



Disinfectants, The Use of ....109 



Door Fastener, Handy ....101 



Doors and Windows 18 



Doors, Yard 18 



Double Yarding Plan ....104 



Drafts in Small Houses, Preventing 33 



Droppings Platforms and Nests 92 



Dust Bath, A Portable 101 



Eaves, Finishing the 17 



Equipment, Miscellaneous Outside .107 



Feeder, An Automatic 99 



Feed and Water Wagon 105 



Hopper, Outdoor 108 



House, Combination Laying and 83 



House, Equipment for the 83 



Troughs and Hoppers 97 



Fences, Building Poultry 104 



Floors, Board 15 



Clay 14 



Concrete 14 



Concrete Slab 14 



Earth 14 



Foundation, Concrete 13 



Foundation, Squaring the 13 



Framing the Poultry House 15 



Fumigation 109 



Gate Fastener 10g 



Green Feed Holder 98 



Green Feed Protector 107 



Hardware 23 



Homemade Appliances ....101 



Hook for Catching Fowls 101 



Hook for Moving House .- 65 



Hoppers, Compartment 98 



Hopper for Mash or Grain, A Simple Feed 98 



Hoppers, Feed 97 



Hospital for Sick Fowls 90 



House, A Cockerel 88 



An Attractive Piano Box 68 



and Run Combined, Portable 69 



A-Shaped Back-Yard 31 



Building Block g4 



Canadian Farm Poultry 55 



Combination Incubator and Brooder 82 



> ombination Laying and Feed 83 



Concrete Poultry 55 



Cornell Model Poultry 41 



Elevated Poultry 27 



for Adult Fowls or Bantams 28 



for Cold Climates, A Laying 45 



for Extreme South 49 



House for 100 Fowls, Curtain-Front Laying 

 for Twenty Fowls 



35 



29 



for Warm Climates, A Laying 47 



Gable Roof Portable 65 



inexpensive Back-Yard Poultry 33 



in Morristown (Tenn.) District 48 



Large Semi-Monitor 52 



Low-Cost Piano Box 69 



Maine Station 34 



Mammoth Incubator 81 



Minnesota Model 53 



Missouri Poultry 43 



New England Laying 40 



Open-Front Laying 49 



Scratching Shed ; 34 



Sectional Colony .'. 67 



Sled-Runner Colony '. 66 



Six Compartment Laying 33 



Straw-Loft Laying 45 



Straw Poultry 55 



Two-Pen Back-Yard Poultry 29 



Western Washington Poultry 53 



With Elevated Floor 53 



With Semi-Monitor Roof 50 



Houses, Other Warm Climate 48 



Houses for Adult Fowls, Location of 10 



Illuminating Poultry Houses - 103 



Incubator House, A Small 80 



Incubator House, How to Build 79 



Intensive or Extensive Methods 7 



Layout for Large Poultry Plant 8 



Layout for One Man Poultry Farm 10 



Locating Poultry Houses 7 



Low-Cost Houses, Building 37 



Lumber, How to Order 12 



Manure Pit for the Laying House 92 



Manure Shed, Concrete ... 90 



Mash Pail, '. ....100 



Materials to Use 12 



Nest, Orange Box 94 



Platform 94 



Sectional 94 



The Connecticut Trap 95 



The "Gravity" Trap 96 



Wall ' " 94 



Nests, Trap 94 



Oat Sprouting Equipment ....102 



Open-Front Laying House 49 



Paint 23 



Partitions 92 



Passageways and Partitions 91 



Perch Supports ..! 93 



Permanen* Brooder Houses, Advantages of 70 



Planning to Save Labor 9 



Portable Houses, Advantages of 65 



Rats and Mice, A Safe Way to Poison 101 



Roofs, Different Types of Poultry House 16 



Roosting Closets 93 



Runs and Yards 104 



Shade for Bare Yards 107 



Shutters and Curtains, Muslin 19 



Laying House With Divided 21 



Substitutes for 20 



Sparrow Trap 108 



Sprayers for Disinfecting 109 



Straw Lofts 21 



Temporary Poultry Houses, Building 22 



Tools 24 



Trolley Feed Carrier 100 



Ventilating System, King 22 



Ventilator. Rear Wall 21 



Walls, Constructing the 16 



Watering Device, Labor Saving 108 



Water Vessels 101 



Wheelbarrows and Carts 108 



Whitewash Formula 24 



"Whitewash, The Use of 109 



Windows and Doors 18 



Yardroom Required, Amount of .104 



Yards, Advantages of Double 104 



Yard Tools .. ....106 



