Index. 



Prairie Chickens, or Pinnated Grouse 



Precocious Chickens seldom the Best 



Preparing Fowls for Exhibition . 



Prices of Breeding Stock 



,, Prize Birds .... 



Prize Poultry, Accommodation for . 

 ,, ,) Age for Showing . 



,, ,, Bone-dust for 



,, „ Commencing a Strain of 



,, „ Condimental Foods for 



i> >i Exhibiting 



,, ,, Hampers for Sending off . 



» ,, Keeping in Condition . 



,, ,, Marking Various Strains . 



,, ,, Mating Birds for Breeding 



,. „ Mr. F. Wragg, on Rearing 



,, ,, Prevention of Laying in . 



,, ,, Rearing Chickens from 



,, ,, Registering Broods 



,, ,, Separating the Sexes • 



,7 ,, Slipped Wings in . 



)) ,, Treatment before Showing . 



,, ,, Washing for Exhibition . 



.. ,, Weeding the Chickens 



Prizes, Additional, needed at Shows . 



Profit of Poultry-keeping 



Ptarmigans ..... 



Purchase of Eggs and Breeding- Stock 



Quantity of Food for Fowls 



R. 



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. 136 

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■ 143 

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■ 143 

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33. 34 

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Railway Companies, Liability of 



,, Sending Fowls by . . . 

 Raines, Mr. T., on Dumpies 



), ,, Scotch Greys 



Rake, Mr., as a Spanish Breeder 

 Ramsdell, Rev. H. S., on Plymouth Rocks 

 Rats, To Trap or Guard Against 

 Reading about Poultry not Sufficient 

 Rearing Chickens Artificially 



)> t) ,, Mother for 



>> » ,, Mrs. F. Cheshire, on 



>i )> for Market in Sussex 



Rearing of Bantams .... 



,, Ducks . . . , 



,, Geese .... 



,, Guinea Fowls 

 ,, Ordinary Fowls 



,, Prize Poultry . 



,, Turkeys 



Reaumur's Experiments in Incubation 

 Redcaps ....... 



Regulating Heat in Incubators 



Repletion not to be Allowed in Adult Fowls 



162 



. 17S 



442 



• 45° 

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• 436 

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• 23 

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429 



• 319 

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• 536 

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• 5°4 



6S 



• 13s 

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• 52 

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56,59 

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Resemblance of Progeny to Parent of same Sex . 

 Reversion, Excited by Crossing .... 



,, Influence of, in Breeding . . . 



,, Latent Characters Shown by . . , 



Rheumatism 



Rice as Food for Poultry 



Robinet, Madame, on Caponising 



>, ,, Fattening Poultry . . 

 Roof of Poultry-house or Shed .... 

 Roosting, Barred Floors for 



,, Evils of too Early .... 



,, Perches for ...... 



,, on Straw ...... 



Rouen Ducks *...,... 

 Roue, Mr. W., on Preparing Spanish for Exhibition 



Roup 



Rumpless Fowls 



,, ,, Origin of 



Russian Fowls 



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125 



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84 

 . 78 



3, 15 



. 16 



144 



«5, 144 



16 



• 539 

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• 199 

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• 447 

 448 



Saddle for Washing Fowls 



Sale of Birds at Shows 



,, Surplus Stock ....... 



Scale of Points, Evils of an Empirical. . . 164, 



,. ,, Old, for Spangled Hamburghs 



,, ,, Theory of a .... 233, 



Scaly Legs in Fowls ...... 192, 



Scotch Greys 



Seamons, Mrs., on Aylesbury Ducks .... 

 „ „ Rearing Geese .... 



Sebright Bantams 



Selecting Birds for Exhibition 



Self-erection of Poultry-houses, Advantage of . 



Selling Market Poultry 94, 



,, Surplus Prize Stock 



Separating Sexes in Chickens 



Serjeantson, Rev. W., on Black East Indian Ducks 

 ,, ,, Black Hamburghs 



,, ,, Call Ducks .... 



„ ,, Management of Ornamental 



Water-Fowl .... 

 ,, ,, Spotted-bill Ducks 



Setting Hens 45 



,, ,, Nests for . . . 

 Sex, Breeding for either .... 44, 45, 



,, Foretelling by Shape of Eggs 



,, Resemblance of Progeny to Parent of same 

 Sexes, both rarely Good from same Strain 



,, Distinguishing, in Chickens . 



,, Relative Influence of; on Points 



,, Separating, while Young 

 Sharps as Food for Poultry 



Sheds for Poultry 1 



,, Rearing Chickens 13, 



Shelf under Perch, Advantage of 



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454 

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