POULTRY-CRAFT. 
Bran, wheat, 94. 
rye, 96. 
Bread, waste, 97. 
Breakdown behind, 212. 
Breeding ducks, points on, 239. 
geese, care of, 254. 
season for chickens, 161. 
ducks, 240. 
stock, care of, 162. 
selling, 197. 
Breeds, comparison of, 62, 63. 
description of : 
Bantams, 218. 
chickens, 64. 
ducks, 236. 
geese, 251. 
turkeys, 224. 
for a breeder, 84. 
city lot, 86. 
fancier, 86. 
farmer, 85. 
village lot, 86. 
to be avoided, 84. 
Brick poultry house, a, 27. 
Broiler raising not profitable as an exclu- 
sive business, 10. 
Broilers, market for, 189. 
packing for shipment, 192. 
profit in, 9. 
rations for, 106—7. 
weights of, 189. 
Broken bones, 212. 
feathers, plucking before exhibition, 
205. 
Bronchitis, 212. 
Bronze turkeys, 225. 
Brooder houses for pipe system, 46. 
separate brooders, 49. 
Brooders, 59. 
care of chicks in, 179. 
ducklings in, 244. 
for young turkeys, 225. 
nursery, 47. 
temperature in, 180. 
Broodiness, causing, 137. 
Broody hens, breaking up, 140. 
coops for, 56. 
sick, 140. 
Broom corn seed, 96. 
Brown eggs — where in demand, 82. 
Leghorns, description, 72. 
mating, 156. 
263 
Buckwheat, 96. 
middlings, 96. 
Buff Cochin Bantams, 220. 
Cochins, 70. 
Laced Polish, 75. 
Leghorns, 73. 
Orpingtons, 78. 
P. Rocks, 66. 
turkeys, 225. 
varieties mating, 160. 
Wyandottes, 67. 
Buffalo or turkey gnats, 215. 
Builders, hints to, 50. 
Bumble foot, 212. 
Business, adapting to location, 19. 
duck keeping, 233. 
locating for, 17, 18. 
poultry keeping as a, 7. 
risks in poultry keeping, 8. 
the poultry, not overdone, 5. 
as an investment, 11. 
Buying breeding ducks, 239. 
geese, 253. 
stock, general remarks on, 87, 89. 
building materials, 51. 
eggs for hatching, go. 
land for a poultry plant, 19. 
old stock, go. 
supplies in quantity, 100. 
Call ducks, 238. 
Calory, definition, 111. 
Canada geese, 253. 
Canker, 212. 
Capital, beginning with small, 13. 
how much, 9g. 
Caponizing, 185. 
Capons, dressing, 192. 
weights of, 189. 
Carbohydrates, 110. 
Carbonaceous foods, definition, 110. 
Catching ducks, 246. 
turkeys, 231. 
Cat proof coop, 58. 
Cats, to keep away, 216. 
Cayuga ducks, 238. 
Cellars, incubator, 46. 
Charcoal, 100. 
Cheese, 99. 
Chicken corn, 96. 
pox, 212. 
