INDEX 
Preservation, of fence posts, 161 
of fences, 167 
of houses, 122 
Price of products, 426 
Prices, regulation of, 430 
Principles of breeding, 225 
of judging, 487 
Prizes, profit from, 473 
Problems of the breeder, 223 
Producer to consumer, 425 
Production, amount of, 33 
as affected by male, 307 
cost of, 33 
feeding for, 175 
noted centres of, 10 
Productiveness, effect on vigor, 255 
Products as influenced by foods fed, 178 
easy to market, 29 
exhibition of, 486 
variety of, 29 
Profits, average yearly, 34 
determined by, 32, 267 
effects of rats and mice upon, 110 
from advertising, 475 
from prizes, 473 
from sale of birds. 475 
how to increase, 35 
per cent on investment, 34 
Protection from cold, 110- 
Protein, composition of, 170 
cost of a pound, 211 
defined, 170 
for chicks, 360 
functions of, 172 
importance of, 172 
Protoplasm defined, 295 
Proventriculus, 297 
Publications, development of, 20 
Pullets as breeders, 256, 284 
early producing, 253 
“Pure bred” defined, 96 
Pure-bred birds, cost of, 98 
demand for, 99 
efficiency of, 99 
selling value, 99, 252 
Pure breeds, advantages of, 96 
value for meat, 259 
Q 
Qualifications necessary for poultryman, 57 
Quality of products, 426 
Quarters, roosting, 145 
Range, 369 
Rape, composition of, 200 
value, 201 
Rations, compounding, 207 
defined, 207 
for chicks, 361 
for growing stock, 375 
mixing, 207 
outlined, 215 
storing, 211 
summer changes in, 275 
Rats, protection against, 110 
533 
Recessive, meaning in Mendel’s law, 231 
Reciprocal crosses, 250 
Records, 453 
breeding, 454 
brooding, 460, 461 
egg, 278 
feeding, 459 
hatching, 320 
importance of, 453 
incubator, 345, 456 
inventory, 455 
labor, 461 > 
methods of keeping, 462 
of sitting hens, 320 
pen, 455 
planning of, 453 
sitting, 458 
young stock, 461 
Red mites, 508 
Reference reading, 5 
Regularity in feeding, 212 
Retailer, selling to, 423 
Returns, 424 
rapidity of, 30 
Rhode Island Reds, 93 
origin of, 71 
Rice, value, 192 
Right-angle triangle, use of, 125 
Roads, 52 
Roaster, breeds for, 388 
defined, 386 
dressing, 418 
farming, South Shore, 18 
Roasters, chapter on, 376-402 
distribution of, 385 
features of, 388 
management, 389 
prices, 387 
types, 387 
Roofing materials, 122 
Roofs, types, 114 
Roosting quarters, 145 
Root crops, 200 
Roundworms, 511 
Running water, advantages of, 49 
Russia, poultry farming in, 39 
Rye, value and usage, 191 
