INDEX 



Abdomen, of laying hen, 36. 



of non-laying hen, 36. 

 Age, of breeders, 30. 



for mating, 30. 

 Air cell of egg, 30. 

 Artificial brooding, 89. 



brooders for, 92. 



construction of brooders for, 92. 



and incubating, 89. 



Barley, 66. 



Beak, bleaching of in laying hens, 34. 

 Bin, grain storage, 49. 

 Blackhead of turkeys, 108. 

 How to tell, 108. 

 treatment of, 109. 

 Bleaching of shanks and beak due to 



laying, 32. 

 Body changes due to laying, 35. 

 Bracing posts, 56. 

 Breeders, age of, 30. 



selecting hens for, 29. 



males for, 28. 



ducks for, 71. 



geese for, 32. 



turkeys for, 31. 

 Breeding birds, 69. 

 Breed, 17, 18. 

 Brooding, natural, 82. 

 Buckwheat, 66. 



Carbon dioxide of body, 38. 



how got rid of, 38. 

 Candler, use of, 79. 

 Candling eggs, 78. 

 Cannibalism, 98. 

 Capacity of perch poles, 44. 

 Cement posts, 54, 55. 

 Chicks, vigor of, 85. 



when to hatch, 86. 

 Chicks on range, 98. 

 Chilling, effects of, 98. 

 Cholera, fowl, 107. 



how to tell, 107. 



treatment of, 107. 

 Class, 107. 



Classification of poultry, 107: 

 Combination sitting and brooding coop, 



102. 

 Common fowls, 20. 

 Corn, 65. 



cracked, 66. 



meal, 66. 

 Construction, of artificial brooders, 92. 



of cold brooders, 92. 



of coops, 83. 



of combination sitting and brooding 

 coop, 83. 



droppings box, 52. 



mash hopper, indoor, 48, 49. 



nests, SO, 51. 



poultry house, 42. 



outdoor mash hopper, 101. 



sitting and brooding coop, 83. 

 Cotton seed meal, 66. 

 Cross breeding, results of, 32. 

 Culling hens, 34. 

 Culls of flock, 37. 



Deflector hover, 92. 

 Diarrhea, 106. 



how contracted, 106. 



kinds of, 106. 



treatment of, 106. 

 Digestive tract, 62. 

 Diphtheria, 61. 

 Droppings box, 52. 



scrape, 53. 

 Ducks, 21. 



Eggs, blood ring, 75. 

 candling, 75. 

 car lots, 11. 

 cases, 77. 



fillers, 79. 



flats, 79. 

 cold storage, 10. 

 cracks in, 79. 

 fresh, 80. 

 grading, 76. 



grading according to color, 76. 

 hatch spots, 80. 

 hatching, how to ship, 78, S5. 

 hauling to market, 78. 

 how marketed, 10, 77, 103. 

 length of time required to hatch, 85. 

 losses on farm, 75, 

 marketing in clubs, 81. 

 points in grading, 77. 

 preservation, 103. 



kinds of containers, 103. 



water glass, 103. 

 production, 27. 



males not necessary to, 33. 



molting, as an indication of, 36. 



upward tendency in, 35. 



size of air cell of, 188. 

 production records, 13. 

 Exercise, value of, 72. 

 Extension runs, 103. 



Farm poultry, 31. 

 Fats, 63. 



Fattening establishments, 10. 

 for market, 10. 



