270 
Poultry keeping, how to learn, 12. 
selling through commission merchants, 
189. 
Prepotency, 150. 
Preserving eggs not advisable, 187. 
Preventing common ailments of young 
chicks, 180. 
disease, general rnles for, 210. 
Prices of (chicken) eggs and stock, 9, 98, 
198. 
ducks, and duck eggs, 239. 
geese, and goose eggs, 253. 
Profit in bantams, 217. 
ducks, 234. 
geese, 250. 
hens, 9. 
turkeys, 222. 
Profitable combination in poultry keeping, 
9. 
Prolificacy, consideration of in selecting 
breeding stock, 150. 
Proteids, 109. 
Protein, 109. 
Provender, 93. 
Puny chicks should be killed, 171. 
Pure bred, definition, 61. 
fowls, relative merits of, 63. 
Quarantining fowls, 210. 
Range for breeding stock: 
ducks, 240. 
geese, 254. 
hens, 162. 
turkeys, 227. 
young chickens, 183. 
ducks, 246. 
geese, 255. 
turkeys, 228. 
Ration, a balanced, 1o1. 
changing value of, 120. 
narrow, definition, 111. 
wide, preferable, 117. 
Rations, changing, 102. 
different for different kinds of fowls, 
102. 
examples in balancing, 117. 
tested for breeding stock: 
ducks, 242. 
geese, 255. 
hens, 104. 
turkeys, 229. 
POULTRIY-CRAFT. 
Rations, tested for young chicks, 106. 
ducklings, 244. 
goslings, 256. 
turkeys, 229. 
Rattling in the throat, 213. 
Record, keeping an egg, 142. 
of hatches, 168. 
Redcaps, 76. 
Relative merits of breeds, 63. 
Renting, 19. 
Risks in poultry keeping, 8. 
Rhode Island Reds, 69. 
Rolled oats, 95. 
Roofing papers, 51. 
Roost, teaching chicks to, 182. 
Roosting coop for chicks, 58. 
Roosts, 53. 
for young turkeys, 228. 
on warm side of house, 39. 
Rose Combed Bantams, 219. 
Rouen ducks, 238. 
Round worm, 214. 
Roup, 214. 
Rumpless fowls, 79. 
Russians, 79. 
Rye, 95. 
bran, 96. 
Scalding ducks, 247. 
poultry, 191. 
Scaly legs, 216. 
Scratching, see Exercise. 
litter, what to use, 126. 
floor, how to manage, 126. 
shed house, 34. 
with a walk, 37. 
houses, suggestions for, 36. 
in front of house, 28. 
under house, 25. 
Screenings, barley, 95. 
wheat, 93. 
Sebright Bantams, 219. 
Second floor space, use of, 51. 
Selecting breeders to produce laying stock, 
150. 
market stock, 151. 
breeding stock, points to consider, 148. 
ducks for breeding, 240. 
geese for breeding, 253. 
turkeys for breeding, 226. 
hens for sitters, 166. 
laying stock, 124. 
