POULTRY-CRAFT. 265 
Mating Golden Wyandottes, 158. 
Hamburgs, 160. 
Houdans, 160. 
Light Brahmas, 158. 
Partridge Cochins, 159. 
Polish, 160. 
Silver Wyandottes, 158. 
Standard fowls, 154. 
turkeys, 226. 
white varieties, 160. 
Matings, compromise, 148. 
Meal, animal, 97. 
barley, 95. 
corn, 93- 
cotton seed, 97. 
linseed, 97. 
oat, 95. 
Meat breeds, definition, 63. 
foods, 97. 
horse, for poultry food, 97. 
Medicines, keeping supply of, 214. 
Methods of feeding, 103. 
making cut in killing, 191. 
Middlings, buckwheat, 96. 
wheat, 94. 
Milk, 99. 
Millet seed, 96. 
Millo maize, 96. 
Minorcas, 74. 
Mistakes, common in breeding, 147. 
Mixed chop, 93. 
feed, 60. 
Moistening eggs during incubation, 170. 
Moisture in incubators, 177. 
Mongrel geese, 250, 254. 
hens, 61, 62. 
Monitor top house, 32. 
Mosquitos, 215. 
Mottled Javas, 68. 
Moulting hens, feeding, 129. 
Moving laying hens, 135. 
sitting hens, 167. 
Muscovy ducks, 239. 
Names of varieties, abbreviations of, So. 
Narragansett turkeys, 225. 
Nest boxes, 53. 
eggs, 142. 
Nests for ducks, 236. 
geese, 254. 
turkeys, 226. 
keeping clean, 127. 
New blood, introducing, 153. 
breeds, 64. 
Nitrogenous food, definition, 109. 
Non-popular varieties to be avoided by busi- 
ness breeders, 84. 
Non-sitters, 64. 
Nursery brooders, 47. 
Nutritive ratio, 111. 
Oat meal, 95. 
Oats, 94. 
Old fowls as breeders, 90, 151. 
hens as layers, 139. 
which to keep, 139. 
stock, buying, go. 
Onions, 98. 
Orpingtons, 77. 
Oyster shells, 100. 
Packing dressed poultry, 192. 
ducks for shipping, 247. 
eggs for hatching, 201. 
iced poultry in warm weather, 193. 
Paint, 52. 
Partridge Cochins, description, 71. 
mating, 159. 
Pedigree, importance of in breeding, 148. 
Pekin Bantams, see Cochin Bantams. 
ducks, 236. 
Picking, dry picking, 191. 
scalded poultry, 191. 
Pip, 213. 
Pit Games, 78. 
Plucking false or foul feathers, 205. (Note). 
geese for the feathers, 257. 
Plymouth Rocks, description, 64. 
mating Barred, 155. 
Pneumonia, 213. 
Polish, 75. 
Bantams, 220. 
Pork scraps, 97. 
Potatoes, 98. 
Potential energy, 111. 
Poultry business as an investment, 11. 
farming, 17. 
keeping as a business, 7. 
as an adjunct, 10. 
employment, 11. 
for pleasure, 13. 
children, 15. 
invalids, 15. 
women, 14. 
