Index 



135 



Fattening poultry, 102. 



length of time required for, 102. 



feeds for, 102. 

 Feeds, 65. 



barley, 66. 



blood meal, 67. 



buckwheat, 66. 



corn, 65. 



cottonseed meal, 66. 



fish scrap, 67. 



grazing crops, 68. 



green feed, 67. 



when to plant, 69, 



grit and shell, 97. 



meat scrap, 67. 



milk, 67. 



oats, 66. 



peanut meal, 67. 



rice, 66. 



rye, 66. 



soybean meal, 67. 



spoiled feed, 67. 



velvet bean mealj 67. 



water, 98. 



wasting, 99. 



weights, 74. 



wheat, 61. 



boards, Tequired for, 96. 

 Feeding, chicks, 96, 97. 



chickens, 73. 



ducks, 96. 



geese, 100. 



goslings, 100. 



poults, 100. 



regularity of, 71. 



turkeys, 99. 

 Fencing and yarding, 54. 



farm poultry, 56. 



on town lot, 56. 



posts, 54, 55. 



standard height, 56. 



wire, 54, 55, 

 Fleas, 112. 



how they multiply, 112. 



stick tight, 112. 



treatment for, 112. 

 Floor space, 46. 

 Fowls, cholera, 107. 



common, 20. 



origin of, 9. 



kinds of, 9. 



structure of, 14. 

 Gains Bankiva, 9. 

 Geese, 21. 

 Grading eggs, 76. 

 Grain mixtures, 73. 

 Grain storage bin, 48, 

 Grazing crop, 67. 

 Green feed, 67. 

 Grit for chicks, 97. 



Hatching eggs, 85. 



Hens to discard, 35. 



Hopper, mash, 48. 



House, construction of, 42, 145. 



equipment of, 44, 48. 



floor space of, 44. 



for hover, 92, 93, 



nests in, 44. 

 plans of, 46, 47. 

 remodeling of, 42. 

 ventilation of, 38, 40. 

 Hovers, construction of, 95. 

 deflector, 92. 

 house, 92. 



Incubation, artificial, 89. 



body of incubator for, 89. 



candling eggs in, 92. 



care of eggs in, 91. 



construction of incubator for, 89. 



heat necessary in, 91. 



kinds of, 89. 



leveling in, 91. 



methods of heating in, 89. 



natural, 82. 



oil-burning, 90. 



parts of incubator for, 89. 



small incubator for, 89. 

 Indications of vigor, 29. 



Kinds of fowls, 9. 

 incubators for, 89. 



Laying hens, how to select, 34. 



abdomen of, 36. 



abdomen, condition of, 32, 36. 



beak of, 35. 



body of, 35. 



condition of, 32. 



measurements of, 35. 



sex characters of, 36. 



shanks of, 35. 



vent of, 35. 

 Lice, 108. 



effect on birds of, 10. 



how to find on birds, 110. 



how they multiply, 110. 



treatment for, 110, 



Market, fattening poultry for, 10. 

 Marketing, eggs, 103, 



in clubs, 81. 



surplus eggs, 10. 

 Market grades of fowls, 103. 

 Mating, age for, 30. 



number of females to male in, 32. 



time to save eggs for, 31. 

 Mash hopper, 48, 101. 

 Mash, 71. 



dry. 72. 



formulae for, 72. 



hot, 72. 



mixtures in, 73. 



reasons for feeding, 73. 

 Meat fowl, 27. 



qualities in a, 27. 

 Meat scrap, 67. 



Measurements of laying hens, 35. 

 Milk, 67. 



Milk fattening poultry, 102. 

 Mites, 110. 



effects .on birds of, 110. 



how they multiply, 110. 



treatment for, 110. 



where found, 110. 



