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IXDEX. 



Erahma, Tail of the Cock, Peculiar 



Bieast-bone, Crooked . 



,, „ in Turkej'S 



,, Tumours on . 



Bredas 



Breeding for Exhibition .... 



,, Ages of Breeding Stock . 



, , Commencing the Strain 



,, Choice between Defects 



„ Duration of Cock's Influence 



„ Few Strains producing both Sexes good 



„ Fresh Blood, its Dangers 



In-and-in 127. 



,, Influences on the Hen . 



,, Mating Birds for . 



,, Prize Poultry Remunerative . 



,, Purchasing Birds for 



,, Purity of Race, Importance of Preserving 



,, Sexes, Production of particular 



,, ,, Relative Influence ot . 



,, Study Requisite for ..... . 



,, Stock, Care of . ' . 



>, ,, Mating of 



,, Varieties (see Names of Breeds) 

 Breeds, Different, Compared ...... 



Bristol, Spanish Fowls at ..... . 



Bronchitis ......... 



Brooke, Rev. A. G., on Malays 



Bucks County Fowls ....... 



Buckwheat as Poultry-food 



Bumble-foot in Dorkings and Houdans . . 186, 330, 

 Bumham, Mr. G. P., Claim to Breeding Brahmas 



,, ,, his Spurious Birds . . . 240, 



,, ,, on Black-breasted Brahma Cocks 



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250 

 144 



519 

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417 

 124 



■33 

 120 

 128 

 129 

 132 

 127 

 295 



13' 



124 



177 

 176 

 128 

 ■33 

 >3i 

 125 



147 

 124 



18 



342 

 186 

 272 



43S 

 29 

 412 

 240 

 244 

 246 



Call Ducks 



Cambridge, Mr. E. , on Black Bantams 

 Canker in Fowls .... 

 Cantelo's Incubator .... 

 Caponising, Advantages of 



,, Chinese Method of . 



,, French Method . 



Carbolic Acid, Value of . . . 

 ,, ,, Various Preparations of 



Carbolate, M'Dougall's Fluid 

 Care {see Management) 

 Carolina Ducks ..... 



Catalogues, Best Form of Show 

 Catarrh ...... 



Cats, To Guard against . 



Cayuga Ducks ..... 



Chalybeate for Fowls 



Chamois Polish ..... 



Chance Feeding and its Results 

 Chemical Food, Parrish's . 



548 



462 



200 



52 



84 



85 



32, 183, 



141, iSS, 190, 



Cheshire, Mrs. F., on Rearing Chickens Artificially 

 Cliick, Development of the, in the Egg 



,, Emergence from the Egg .... 



Chickens, Advantage of Cooping 



,, Artificial Mothers for .... 



,, Bedding for ..... 



,, Cooping out ...... 



,, Coops, Wire-covered, for Defying Vermin 

 ,, ,, for Feeding Chickens among Poultry 



,, ,, Various .... 



,, Diet for 



,, Dryness, Importance of in Rearing 

 ,, Evils of Early Roosting for 

 ., ,, Overfeeding . 



,, Feeding, Times for . 

 ,, First Food for 

 ,, Green Food for 

 ,, in Small Space . 

 ,, Management of 

 ,, Not to be Taken from Ilcn 

 ,, Older, not to be Neglected 

 ,, Prize, Rearing of 

 ,, Rearing Artificially 

 ,, Shelter when Abandoned by Hen 

 ,, Very Young, how to Cook 

 Chili, Apocryphal Poultry-farm ill 

 Cliilled Eggs, Treatment of . . 



Chittagongs 



,, perhaps degraded Brahmas 



Chittiprats ..... 

 Cholera, Chicken .... 

 Cleanliness in Houses, Importance of 



,, Means of Preserving 



Clift, Mr. W., on Breeding Turkeys 

 Coathupe, Mrs., onGondooks. 

 Cochin Bantams .... 

 Cochins, Black .... 

 „ Buft .... 

 ,, Cuckoo .... 

 ,, First Importation of 

 ,, General Characteristics 

 ,, in Small Space 

 ,, Injured by Early Showing. 



,, Judging 



,, ,, Schedule for. 



,, Partridge 



Silky 



,, the Origin of the " Poultry Fancy" 

 ,, To Test the Quality of 



White 



Cock-fighting, Antiquity of, in England . 

 Artificial Spm-s in 

 in the Malay Peninsula 

 its ErutaUty .... 

 Mr. Tegetmeier on . 

 Preparation and Training for 



PACE 



■ 429 



38 



. 40 



71 



75. 429 

 73. '44 



• 69 

 71 



• 73 

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71, 137 



72 



73. 144 



72. 148 

 72, 137 



68 



70. 138 



74 



. 68 



68 



■ 73 

 ■36 



74. 428 



73 



. 86 



103 



• 49 

 244 



244, 247 

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3 



4 

 517 

 448 

 465 

 227 

 210 

 227 

 20S 

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213 

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231 



236 

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22S 

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 29S 

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