266 
Eggs, for hatching, age of, 168. 
buying, go. 
care of, 163. 
packing for shipment, 201. 
selling, 200. 
marketing, 187. 
miscarriage of, 141. 
misshapen, 141. 
moistening, during incubation, 170. 
nest, not necessary, 142. 
pale-yolked, 142. 
quality of, affected by food and condi- 
tion, 142. 
shipping, to commission merchants, 
188. : 
small, 141. 
soft shelled, 141. 
testing, 169. 
watery, 142. 
winter, 123. 
Egyptian corn, 96. 
geese, 253. 
Elements, food, 109. 
Embden geese, 251. 
Enlarged crop, 213. 
Enteritis, 213. 
Excelsior meal bread, 108. 
Exercise for heavy fowls, 125. 
how much, 125. 
what kind of, 124. 
Exhibiting poultry, general remarks on, 
203. 
Exhibition coops, 207. 
Games, 78. 
stock, general care of, 203. 
special preparation of, 204. 
Fall management of laying stock, 129. 
False or foul feathers, plucking, 205. 
Family poultry, 13. 
trade, hints on selling to, 193. 
Fanciers, breeds for, 86. 
Fancy, keeping poultry for, 14. 
poultry, combining with market, 18. 
Farm, breeds for, 85. 
flock, continuous house for, 30. 
Farmers’ mistake in breeding, 147. 
Farming, duck, 233. 
poultry, 17. 
Fat, effect of feeding to excess, III. 
how to reduce, 125. 
Fats, 110. 
POULTRIY-CRAFT. 
Fattening affected by conditions, 102. 
for methods of fattening, see /?atzons. 
Feather eating, 213. 
in ducklings, 248. 
Feathers, plucking foul, 205. 
geese for, 257. ‘ 
Feed cookers, 60. 
how much to, 104. 
often to, 104. 
mixers, 60. 
troughs, 54. 
keeping clean, 128. 
Feeding breeding ducks, 242. 
geese, 255. 
damaged foods, 93, 100. 
for special results, 102. 
grain in litter, 126. 
laying hens in extreme cold weather, 
135. 
warm winter weather, 136. 
spring, 136. 
summer, 138. 
turkeys, 226. 
little chickens, 173. 
methods compared, 103. 
moulting hens, 129. 
onions, 98. 
potatoes, 98. 
requires skill, 108. 
science in, 109. 
sitting hens, 168. 
special — before exhibition, 206. 
standards, use of, 116. 
stimulants, 99. 
turkeys from shell to market, 228. 
when the days are short, 133. 
Fiber, digestibility of, 110. 
Fish, desiccated, 98. 
feeding to ducks, 245. 
scrap, 98. 
Fleas, 215. 
Floor, earth—best, 24. 
keeping clean, 127. 
renewing earth, 39. 
to keep scratching in order, 126. 
Food, cooking, 103. 
elements, 109. 
need of variety of, 101. 
requirements of fowls, ror, 109. 
value, 111. 
Foods, analysis of, (table), 112. 
changing, 102. 
