INDEX 
Success and failure, causes of, 96. 
best way to achieve, 7, 56, 61 
Succulence for chicks, 361 
need of, 210 
Sultans, appearance, 77 
Sunflower seeds, 192 
Sunlight, 106 
Supply, 427 
vs. demand, 32 
Surgery, 504 
Swiss chard, 201 
Symptoms of disease, 500 | 
System, best for beginner, 60 
defined, 295 
the key to success, 62 
Systems of feeding, best, 215 
classified, 212 
of poultry farming classified, 59 
T 
Tapeworm, 512 
Tar, use as a paint, 123 
Taste, sense of, 299 
Telephone, need of, 54 
Temperature for brooding, 257 
for holding hatching eggs, 288 
for incubation, 33 
fowl’s body, 169 
of houses, 109 
Testicles, location, 298 
Testing eggs, 320, 343 
Thermostat, use of, 333 
Tile, use under foundation, 126 
Time to start, 61 
Tissue defined, 295 
kinds of, 295 
Toe punching, 454 
tmanner of, 322 
Training for exhibition, 477 
Transit, use of, 124 
Transportation, facilities for, 21 
need of, 54 
Trap-nesting to improve egg production, 278 
Trap nests, 148 
design, 149 
usage, 149 
Trench for foundation, 125 
Troughs for feeding, 152 
Turning eggs in incubation, 339 
Two-thirds span house, specifications, 135 
Type defined, 71 
for egg production, 257 
of incubators, 331 
of laying houses, 110 
U 
Under color, importance of, 263 
535. 
Uniformity of eggs, 97 
of flocks, 98 
Unit of protein, cost of, 211 
standard multiple-unit house, 113 
United States census table, 8 
Utility classification, 66, 78 
exhibitions, 475 
fancy combined with, 23 
quality, score card for, 490 
score card, use of, 491 
types compared, 88 
Vv 
Value, basis of, 224 
Variation, causes of, 239 
functional, 238 
laws of, 235 
meristic, 238 
morphological, 236 
principles of, 235 
substantive, 237 
types of, 236 
Varieties, number of, 66 
Variety defined, 70 
necessity in feeding, 180 
Vegetable cutter, 206 
Vegetables, composition of, 198, 200 
Ventilation, automatic, 108 
in incubator cellar, 329, 340 
in poultry house, 108 
Vigor, cause of lack of, 255 
constitutional, 254 
importance of, 254 
selection for, 102 
Vineland District, New Jersey, 15 
Vital question, profitable production, 35 
Vitality, signs of high, 256 
of low, 256 
Vitelline membrane, 301 
Vitellus defined, 301 
Ww 
Walls, materials for, 118 
Washing birds, 479 
Waste products, 31 
Water, elevating for storage, 49 
for chicks, 359 
importance of fresh, 49 
in eggs, 184 
in fowl’s body, 170 
necessity of, 173, 180 
sources of, 49, 184 
uses of, 173 
Water-glass, use of, 441 
Weaning chicks, 324, 368 
