CONTENTS. xv 



CHAPTEE XXXIV. - 

 Parasites of Swine. 



Kidney-worms — Hog-lice — Mange, or $cab — Measles in Pork — Trichinosis — 

 The Strongylus— The Ascaris— Symptoms^ of Worms 970 



POTJLTI3-2-. 



CHAPTEE XXXV. 

 Breeds and Breeding. 



Houdans — Crevecceurs — Cochins—Plymouth Rocks — Polish Fowls — Brahmas — 

 Silkies-r-Frizzled Fowls— Rumpless Bantams — East India Fowls— Aseels — 

 Sebright and Pekin Bantams — Sebastopol Geese — Nile Geese — Black-beaked 

 Turkey — Ducks. . . 983 



CHAPTEE XXXVI. 1 

 Food, Feeding, and Marketing. 



Proper Food for Fowls — Fattening for Market— Killing — Preserving and Pack- 

 ing Eggs — Proper Kinds of Food 999 



CHAPTEE XXXVII. 

 Poultry Architecture. 



General Directions — Portable Poultry Houses — Shelters! — "Warm Mother" — 

 " Cold /Mother "—Coops — Improved Poultry Homes. . . . 1003 



CHAPTEE XXXVIII. 

 Eggs and Incubation. 



Generation of the Egg — Physiology of Incubation — Natural Incubation — Con- 

 venient Hens' NestB— Egg-protector — Fertility 'and Egg-testers. . . 1008 



CHAPTEE XXXIX. 

 Artificial Incubation. 



Artificial Incubators in Ancient Times — Progress in Invention of Incubating Ma- 

 chines — The Graves Incubator — Halsted's Automatic Incubator — The Boyle 

 Incubator — Tomlinson's Automatic Incubator — Thermostatic Incubator — 

 Hearson's Regulator 1012 



CHAPTEE XL. 



Diseases of Poultry. 



Apoplexy — Bronchitis — Bumble-foot — Catarrh — Cholera— Consumption- 

 Cramps — Crop-bound — Debility — Diarrhea — Diphtheria — Egg-bound — 

 Feather-eating - Frost-bite— Gapes — Vertigo — Swelled Legs — Indigestion— 

 Leg-weakness — Lice— Liver Disease — Pip — Roup — White-coinb — Worms in 

 Ducks — Caponizing Fowls. . . . 1020 



THE DOGr- 



CHAPTEE XLI. 

 Baces of Dogs. 



The Dog's Close Relation to Man — His Intelligence— His Origin — Kinship of the 

 Wolf, Hyena, Jackal, and For to the Dog — The Newfoundland Dog — 



