INDEX. 



Laying, Season of ... 83 

 Laying, Apartment for . 61 



Lice .133 



Lime 54 



Liver of Fowls .... 24 

 Lungs of Fowls .... 24 



Malay Breed 31 



Mallard Duck .... 148 

 Manure from Poultry . . 58 



Molasses 113 



Moulting 25 



Minks 68 



Muskrats 69 



Nests, Secret 65 



Nest-eggs 62 



Noxious Vermin .... 66 



Oats as Food 139 



Oil of the Yolk ... 75 

 Origin of Common Fowl 19 

 Origin of Turkey . . 164 

 Origin of Goose ... 153 

 Origin of Duck ... 148 



Owls 71 



Oyster-shells 54 



Palings 41 



Pancreas of Fowls ... 24 

 Parasitic Worms . . . 127 



Peacock 172 



Pheasant 179 



Pigeons 174 



Poulards 116 



Poultry-yard 41 



Poultry-fluke 127 



Profits of Poultry and Eggs 144 

 Proportion of Cocks . . 38 



Purging 130 



Rackoons 67 



Rats 69 



Rat-traps 70 



Reptiles, Injurious 

 Ricinus Gallinae . 

 Roosting Perches 



Roup 



Sand . 



72 

 43 

 59 

 132 

 54 



Secret Nests 65 



Size of Nests 64 



Skunks 68 



Snapping Turtle .... 72 

 Squabs and Squeakers . 177 

 Statistics of Poultry . . 143 

 Sunflower Seed .... 139 



Swan 163 



Thanksgiving Turkey . . 170 

 Time for gathering Eggs . 64 

 Top-knot Fowls .... 29 



Treddle 75 



Value of Poultry in the 



United States .... 143 

 Varieties of Fowls ... 20 

 Vermin, Noxious ... 66 



Water-tank 52 



Weasels .68 



Weight of Eggs .... 73 



Wheat 139 



Whitewashing .... 133 

 Whites of Eggs .... 74 



Worms 110 



Yellow-legged Fowls . . 34 



Yolk 75 



Yolk Bag 75 



WILL SHORTLY BE PUBLISHED BY THE SAME AUTHOR, 



A TREATISE ON THE 



DOMESTICATION OF THE WILD ANIMALS 

 OF NORTH AMERICA. 



