INDEX 



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Nests, arrangement of 27 



" material 55 



" numbered 95 



Net, use of lU 



Number raised a year .... 15 



Owls 19 



Oyster shells 43, 55 



Packing 63 



Painting, importance of . . 28 



Pans, nesting 28 



Parents care of young .... 11 

 Peas, Canada 41 



" tend to light skins . . 113 

 Pen for young birds . . 89, 91 

 Perches, not recommended 28 



Pests, avoid 9 



Picking described 63 



Pigeon milk 11 



Prices 14 



" for mated birds . . . 112 



" high in winter 67 



reduced by ration . . 44 



" summer and winter 64 

 Profit, continuous 88 



" selling mated birds 113 

 Production, maximum .... 17 



" record 17 



" stopped during 



molt 17 



Punctuality, importance of 47 

 Questions asked advertisers 98 



" to ask before buy- 

 ing 85 



Ration proper 42 



" selling mated birds .. 113 



Rats, harbor for 21 



Record, ideal 95 



" keeping 92 



Records, necessity of 11 



of mating 82 



" permanent 95 



Regularity, essential to 



health 102 



Rest during molt 17 



Results, falsifying 15 



Roosting pointers 89 



Roosts, not recommended 28 



Roup 103 



Running boards in pen ... 28 

 Runts, experiments with ... 17 

 Salt 43, 55 



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Sand changed 4 times 



yearly 31 



Sawdust, avoid 106 



Scandaroons 19 



Sex, breeders deceived as 



to J 56 



" distmguishing 56 



Sexes, proportion of 94 



Selection of stock 45 



Separation of mated and 



unmated birds 6 



Shading not needed 31 



Site, selecting 21 



Slope favorable 21 



Squabs chilled 67 



Strains, Importance In se- 

 lecting 2 



Stock, importance of good 15 



" replacing 88 



" selection 45 



Storage, cold 64 



Success by effort 4 



" requisites of ■ 99 



Sunlight, necessity of 21 



Tobacco stems for lice . . . 107 



" " In house . . 30 



Theft, guarding against . . 64 



Transferring 110 



Trough for feeding 44 



Ventilation discussion .... 26 



" faulty, produces 

 loss 23 



" proper 36 



Vermin, avoid 9 



Vertigo 103 



Vitality essential 69 



Warranty defined 83 



"Water, importance of pure 



40, 102 



Weight decides grade . 14 



" loss of, from dress- 

 ing 47 



" of squabs 44, 47 



Weasels, harbor for 21 



Wheat tends to dark skins 114 



White Homers 113 



"Whitewash carbolated . . . 109 

 Whitewashing importance 



of 23 



Widow, recognizing 101 



Windbreak value of 21 



Wing troubles 103 



