INDEX. 



Absorption in intestine, 310 



of yollt, 1S6 

 Age of breeding stook, IGl, 105 

 Aim in breeding, 109 

 Air cell in egg, 177, 178, 214 



drainage, 255 

 Albumen, 170 



formation of, 177 



kinds of, 177 

 Alfalfa, green, 349 



meal, 330 

 Alimentary tract, 311 

 AUantois, 184 

 Alternating yards, 292 

 American class, breeds of, 75 



origin and history of, 70 

 slaughter tests of, 80 



Poultry Association, 50 



standard of perfection, 57, 59 

 Amnion, 183 

 Amylolytic ferment, 314 

 Analj'sis of egg, 304 



of feeds, 527 



of fowl, 304 

 Anatomy of the fowl, 311 

 Ancestry of domestic fowl, 49 

 Anconas, 70 

 Andalusians, 74 

 Animal feeds, 322 

 Annual production, individual vari- 

 ation in, 164 

 Appendix, 523 

 Appliances, feeding, 377 ff 

 Area opaca, 180 



pellucida, 180 



of yards, 291 

 Artificial brooding, 232, 233 



heating of houses, 260 



incubation, 197, 200 ff 



Ash content of egg, 301 



of fowl's body, 301 

 in feeds, 301, 527 

 use of, 301 

 Asiatic class, breeds of, origin and 



liistory of, 03 

 Aspergillosis, 504 

 Aylesbury ducks, 00, 429 



B 



Bantams, 05, 66 

 Barley, 336 



ground, 337 

 Barred Plymouth Rock, 78, 145 

 Barrels for caponizing, 97, 99 



packing for, 475 

 Beets, 350 



Bench picking, 401, 462 

 Bile, 315 



Birchen games, 05 

 Blackhead, 420, 425 

 Blastoderm, 177, 180 

 Bleeding, necessity of thorough, 



458 

 Blood, dried, 341 



rings, 226, 499 

 Blue Andalusian, 74 

 Bone, dry, granulated, 353 



green cut, 354 

 Booted Bantams, 00 

 Bourbon turkeys, 67 

 Boxes for dressed poultry, 475 

 Brahma, 67 ff 

 Bran, wheat, 348 

 Bread crumbs, 382 

 Breed, choosing a, 82 

 defined, 54 



standards, 00 

 Breeder, fancier, 30 



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