Carbohydrates in feeds, 172 
Card for labor record, 462 
Care during molt, 286 
of poultry buildings, 122 
Castor oil, uses, 505 
Catechu, uses, 505 
Cayenne, uses, 505 
Cell defined, 294 
Centres of poultry production, 11 
Chalazz, location and function, 304 
Charcoal, value, 212 
Cheapness vs. economy, 210 
Chicks, banding of, 322 
care of, 323 
death of, 363 
early feeding of, 373 
feeding, 358, 361 
formation of, 300, 307 
marking, 322 
parasites on, 324 
rations for, 234 
transferring, 357 
weaning, 324 
Chilling chicks, 363 
Choosing a poultry farm, 41-55 
Cinders for foundation, 126 
Circulating capital defined, 58 
Circulatory system, distribution of, 297 
Class defined, 69 
Classification of fowl, biological, 65 
standard and utility, 66 
utility, 78 
Clavicles, description of, 294 
Clean birds, 499 
feeding, 498 
housing, 497 
yards, 499 
Cleaning poultry houses, 498 
Cleanliness as related to health, 271 
how maintained, 272 
importance of spraying, 273 
in designing fixtures, 143 
in the sitting coop, 320 
Climate, proper conditions of, 44 
Cloaca, location and function, 297 
Clover, composition of, 197 
Cochin, origin of, 72 
Cold, effect of, 109 
Colony brooders, 353 
system defined, 52 
possibilities of, 52 
Color, breeding for, 262 
harmony defined, 263 
existence of, 263 
value when choosing stock, 102 
Column system in accounting, 465 
INDEX 525 
Combs, frozen, 505 
Commission merchant, selling to, 423 
Communication, means of, 54 
need of, 53 
Community house, 51 
morally, 44 
system defined, 51 
possibilities of, 51 
Comparison judging, 487 
profiting from, 474 
Composition of bird's body, 169, 170 
Concrete fence posts, 162 
floor, advantages of, 117 
construction, 108, 117, 118 
use of, 110 
floors, 131 
foundations, 126, 127 
posts, 162 
Conditioning, 478 
Consumer, selling to, 423 
Contour of land, 46 
Convenience in poultry houses, 106 
Cooling, 417 
in incubation, 340 
Codperation in Denmark, 38 
value of, 40 
Coéperative marketing, 449 
Corn as a food, 179 
composition of, 193 
function and usage, 185 
meal, composition of, 193 
usage, 186 
Cornell rations for layers, 218 
Cornish fowl, possibilities of, 93 
Correlation, body characters and function. 
258 
law of, 241 e 
vitality and body characters, 256 
Correspondence courses, 3 
Cost of standard-bred birds, 98 
Cottonseed meal, 192 
Cow, hen compared with, 222 
Cramming, 408 
machine, usage, 408 
Crate fattening, 404, 405 
Creaminess, causes of, 263 
Crop, location and function, 297 
rotation, 159, 160, 372 
Cross-breeding defined, 246 
object of, 246 
Crosses, reciprocal, 250 
Crowding chicks, 363 
effect on vigor, 256 
| Crows, 512 
Curtains for laying houses, 120 
Customers’ interests, 426 
