CONTENTS 



Chapter. Pace. 



I. The History of Poultry and the Poultry Industry ... g 



II. The External Structure of the Fowl ....... 14 



III. How Poultry Is Classified 17 



IV. How to Select Birds for Breeding 27 



V. How to Select Laying Hens . 34 



VI. The Necessity of Air and How to Ventilate the Poultry 



House . . . 38 



VII. To Remodel a Poultry House or to Make a New House . 42 



VIII. The Construction of Poultry House Equipment 48 



IX. Fences and Yarding Chickens . S4 



X. Contagious Diseases of Poultry Appearing in Fall . 58 



XI. The Digestive Tract of the Fowl and Its Function . 62 



XII. Poultry Feeds and Their Values 65 



XIII. Feeding Layers and Breeders 71 



XIV. Candling and Grading Market Eggs 75 



XV. Construction of the Combination Sitting and Brooding 



Coop .... .... 82 



XVI. Selecting "Eggs for Hatching and Settiiig a Hen ... 85 



XVII. Artificial Incubating and Brooding . . . . . 8g 



XVIII. Feeding Chicks, Goslings, Ducklings, and Poults ... 96 



XIX. Fattening Poultry and Shipping Poultry Products . . 102 



XX. Diarrhea in Poultry ... 106 



XXI. Mites, Lice, Scaly Leg, and Fleas of Poultry .... no 



XXII. Worms Infesting Poultry 113 



XXIII. Poultry as an Important Enterprise on the Farm 116 



XXIV. Suggestions for Projects and Laboratory Exercises 121 

 XXV. A Few of the More Common Questions That May Be 



Used for Study and Review 125 



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