| - INDEX 
Contests, egg-laying, 5 
Corn as_litter, 50 
Corn for shade, 50 
“! Cost of laying house, 57 
Crop bound, cause. of, 149. 
. Crop bound, treatment for, 150 
Culling, how to’ do, 99 
Culling, importance of, 96 
Culling pullets, for breeding’ stock, 93 
Culling, reasons for, 96 
Curtain of brooder house, 30. |, 
Curtains i in are house, 57 
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Design, laying und 60 
Diarrhea, white, 137 
Dirt ftoors, mhanagement, , 62 
Diseases, 137 © oom 
“Disinfectants for laying (bot 107 
Disinfection of laying hotise, 58 | 
Draughts, avoidance of in laying house, 54 
Dressing ‘poultry, 128 one 
Dried buttermilk for pullets, 82° 
Dropping boards, care of, 114 
‘’ Dropping boards in laying house, 67_- 
Droppings, how:to store, 115) 
Droppings, use of, 115 
Dry mash, amount to feed pullets, 1 , 
Dry mash formula for pullets, 75 
Dry-mash hoppers, 46 : 
Dry picking, how to kill, 129 
Dry' picking vs. scalding, 128 _ 
Early, ahi, value of, 18 es 
Early laying, depends on ‘early chicks, 19 
Egg calcy — of, Wg. ake 
