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Index 



Molting, indications of in egg produc- 

 tion, 38. 

 vacational, 26. 



Natural brooding, 82. 



incubating, 82. 

 Nests, construction of, 50. 



sizes of, 44.' 

 Nutrients, 65. 



carbohydrates, 65. 



hydrocarbons, 65. 



kinds of, 65. 



protein in, 65. 



required, 72. 



Organs, of digestion, 62. 



of breathing, 64. 



of respiration, 64. 

 Origin of fowls, 9. 

 Ornamental fowls, 38. 

 Oxygen of air, 38. 



how needed, 38. 



how taken up, 38. 

 Overcrowding, effects of, 98. 

 Overheating, 98. 



Perch poles, 44. 



Physical condition of laying hens, 34. 



Physical defects of laying hens, 34. 



Peanut meal, 67. 



Posts, bracing of, 56". 



cement, 55. 



durable, 54, 



not durable, 54, 



reinforced concrete, 55. 



setting of, 56. 



steel, 54. 



wood, 54. 

 Poultry house construction, 42. 



remodeling, 42. 



ventilation, 36, 40. 

 Poultry, breeding of on farm, 31. 



classification, 17. 



fattening of, 10. 



in other countries, 13. 



in America, 9. 



magnitude of industry, — . 



national organization for breeding, 17. 



purpose for which kept, 9. 



standard, 17. 

 Production, capon, 11. 



duck, 11. 



egg, 11. 



meat, 27. 



turkey, 11. 

 Pullet, indication of laying qualities 



in, 36. 

 Qualities of hens, 35, 36. 



laying hens, 36. 



meat fowls, 27. 

 Range chicks, 98. 

 Results of cross breeding, 32. 

 Rice, 68. 

 Roup, 58. 



cause of, 58. 



how to prevent, 60. 



spread of, 58. 



how to tell, 58. 



treatment of, 59. 



Scrape, droppings, 59. 

 Scaly legs, 112. 



appearance of, 112. 



treatment of, 112. 

 Selection of males for breeding, 37. 



eggs for hatching, 85. 



for vigor, 29. 



hens for breeding, 29. 



laying hens, 34. 

 Set a hen, how to, 84. 

 Sex characters of laying hens, 36. 

 Sex of ducks, how distinguished, 30. 

 Shipping poultry, 103. 

 Shanks, bleaching of due to laying, 34. 

 Sitting and brooding coop, 82. 

 Sitting hens, 86. 

 Sore head, 61. 



how to tell, 61. 



treatment of, 61. 

 Soybean meal, 67. 

 Spoiled feeds, 67. 

 Shipping eggs, 77. 



of dressed poultry, 10. 

 Stale eggs, 11. 

 Starch, 65, 

 Steel posts, 54, 

 Structure of fowl, 14. 

 Sugars, 65. 

 Swollen eye, 58. 



treatment of, 58. 



Turkeys, 21. 



■ Utility fowls, 27. 

 -Upward tendency of egg production, 35. 



Vacational molt, 36. 



Variety, 17, 19. 



Velvet bean meal, 67. 



Vent, condition of in laying hens, 33. 



in non-laying hens, 35, 

 Ventilation, by diffusion, 38. 

 •by drafts, 40. 



required in poultry houses, 38. 

 Vigor, lack of, 31. 



of chicks, 86. 



selection for, 29. 30. 



good constitutional, 31. 

 Volume of feeds, 74. 



Water glass, 103. 

 supply of, 71. 

 Wheat, 66. 

 Wire fencing, 55. 

 Worms, 113. 



gapeworms, 113. 



how spread, 113, 

 effect on birds, 113. 

 treatment, 113. 

 tapeworms, 113. 

 structure, 114. 

 size of, 114. 

 treatment of, 114. 

 large round, 115. 



condition produced by, 115. 

 treatment for, 115. 

 small round, 115. 



