264 
Chicks, colors of when hatched, 172. 
cooping, 173. 
coops for, 56. 
deformed and puny — should be killed, 
171. 
in brooders, care of, 179. 
keeping free from lice, 172. 
marking, 171. 
preventing ailments of, 180. 
rations for, 106—8. 
rearing in confinement, 182. 
roosting coops for, 58. 
teaching to roost, 182. 
water for, 173. 
weaning, 181. 
what to do when they are hatching in 
incubators, 179. 
under hens, 170. 
Chiggers, 215. 
Children, poultry keeping for, 15. 
Chilling, effects of—on incubated eggs, 170. 
Cholera, 212. 
Chop, corn, 93. 
mixed, 93. 
City poultry keeping, breeds for, 86. 
Clams, 97. 
Classification of poultry keepers, 7. 
Cleanliness, general remarks on, 127, 241. 
(see also, How often to clean). 
Clover, 98. 
Cob and corn meal, 93. 
Cochin Bantams, 220. 
Cochins, 70. 
C. O. D., shipping poultry, 197. 
Colds, 132, 212. 
Colony plan, 26. 
Color of market eggs, 82. 
Pekin duck eggs, 237. 
Colored Dorkings, 73. 
Colors of chicks when hatched, 172. 
Combination of fancy and market poultry, 
18. 
the profitable, in poultry keeping, 9. 
Combining poultry keeping with other busi- 
ness, 10. 
Commission merchants, selling to, 188—g. 
€ommon chickens, 61—2. 
ducks, 236. 
geese, 250. 
turkeys, 225. 
Comparison of branches of poultry keep- 
ing, 10. 
POULTRY?Y-CRAFT. 
Comparison of breeds, generalremarks, 62, 
63. 
(see also remarks in descriptions 
of varieties of fowls). 
of methods of feeding, 103. 
Complete plant under cover, 42. 
Compromise matings, 148. 
Condition and egg production, 134. 
of breeding stock, 150. 
powders, 99. 
Confinement, care of breeding geese in, 254. 
ducks adapted to, 233. 
keeping breeding stock (hens) in, 162. 
turkeys in, 224. 
rearing chicks in, 182. 
market ducks in, 245. 
Constipation, 212. 
Consumption, 212. 
Contamination, 152. 
Continuous, or sectional, houses, 29. 
Control of sex, 152. 
Cookers, feed, 60. 
Cooking food, 103. 
Cooling dressed poultry, 192. 
duck eggs, 243. 
eggs in incubators, 178. 
Coop, cat and hawk proof, 58. 
exhibition, 207. 
roosting, for weaned chicks, 58. 
Cooping young chicks, 173. 
ducklings, 245. 
goslings, 255. 
turkeys, 228. 
Coops for broody hens, 56. 
little chicks, 56. 
shipping, exhibition and breeding 
stock, 199. 
live poultry to market, 190. 
Corn, 92. 
an all corn ration for turkeys, 230. 
broom, 96. 
chicken, 96. 
chop, 93- 
Egyptian, 96. 
fed hens lay best eggs, 142. 
Kaffir, 96. 
meal, 92. 
Cornish Indian Games, 78. 
Correspondence, 197. 
Cotton seed meal, 97. 
Cracked corn, 93. 
Cracker crumbs, 97. 
