io Contents. 



CHAPTER XVII. 



REARING— NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL. 



FAOB 



Size of Eggs— Supposed Ways of Testing Sex and Fertility of Eggs— For- 

 mation of Egg — The Young Chicks — First Day after Hatching — Food 

 — Coops — Infla nee of Early Management — Coddling Injurious — First 

 Three or Four Days— Second Stage— The Run — Food— Meat Diet- 

 Green Food — System in Feeding — Cold Mothers — Troubles with 

 Hens — Artificial Mothers— Management — Outdoor Hearers — Heat — 

 Overcrowding— Teaching Chicks to Eat— Turkeys as Hearers— water. 193 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



FOOD AND FEEDING. 



Food the Fuel of all Life— Effect of Bad Food— Effect of Over-feeding— 

 Food fcr Fowls in Confinement not to be same as when at Liberty — 

 What is Needed in Food — Qualities of the Grains — Barley — Oats — 

 Wheat — Maize — Buckwheat — Pulse — Rice — Bone-meal— Water • 211 



CHAPTER XIX. 



EARLY EGGS AND CHICKENS. 



Early E^gs and Chickens bring High Prices — How to Secure them — Pullets 



to be Used— Hens to be Mated Early — Good Housing and Feeding . 330 



CHAPTER XX. 



THE PREPARATION OF TABLE FOWLS. 



Superiority of French System — Breeds of Fowls Suitable for Fattening — 

 Methods — Duration of Process — Food — Fattening and Cramming 

 Machines — Cramming by Hand — Killing Fowls — Dressing in France — 

 Shaping-boards — Advantage of Dressing — Caponising . , . 224 



CHAPTER XXI. 



THE DISEASES OF POULTRY. 



General Treatment of Disease — Causes — Apoplexy — Bronchitis — Bumble 

 Foot — Catarrh — Consumption — Cramp — Cropbound — Diarrhcea — 

 Diphtheria — Egg Organs — Feather Eating — Gapes — Roup— Cholera . 236 



CHAPTER XXII. 



POINTS OF MANAGEMENT. 



Importance of Details — Keeping an Account — Rotation of Crops — Poultry 

 Manure — The Dust-bath — The Preservation of Eggs — Packing Eggs — 

 Sending Eggs to Market 345 



