INDEX 



533 



Chicks, drinking fountains fur, 412, 

 414 

 early versus late hatcbcd, 217 

 effect of chilling on, 240 

 first feed for, 229, 382 

 growing, standard for, 303 

 methods of marking, 124, 101 

 pedigrecing, 123 ff 

 sour milk for, 357, 384 ff 

 vices of, 248 

 wingincss in, 241 

 Chmese geese, 67 

 Cholera, chicken, 508 

 Class, 54 



American, 75 

 Asiatic, 03 

 English, 80 

 Mediterranean, 70 

 Clay block floor, construction of 



208 

 Cloaca, 310 

 Clover, cut, 341 

 uses of, 341 

 Coal-heated brooders, 235, 230 

 Cochins, 67 S 



Cold storage, cost of eggs for, 25 

 Colony brooders, 234 ff 



house, description of, 237 ff 

 Combs, frozen, 509 

 Concrete floors, 207 

 Condiments, use of, 339 

 Constipation, 505 

 Constitutional vigor, 133 



characteristics of, 130 

 of dam, effect on olTsjiring 



135 

 hatching power as af- 

 fected by, 141 

 importance of, 133 

 influence upon the olT- 

 sjiring, 135 

 Continental class, 05 

 Continuous house, description of, 



283 

 Coohng dressed jioiiltry, 404 

 Cooperative marketing associa- 

 tions, 37, 39 

 Corn, 330 



meal, 339 

 Cornish, 64 

 Cottonseed meal, 339 

 Cow peas, 332 

 Cramming machines, 417 

 Creaminess, 109, 331 



Creve cu'ur, 05 

 Crop, bound, 506 



location and use of, 313 

 Cross-breeding, 109, 132 

 Crude fiber, 304 

 Culling, 154 

 Curtain front, 268 ff 

 Custom hatching, 34 

 Cuticle of egg, 177, 194 



Dampness, evil of, in jJouUry 



house, 256 

 Dealer, baby chick, 34 

 Defects, 58 

 Diarrhea, 94, 519 

 Digestibility, causes of variation 



in, 321 

 Digestible nutrients explained, 300, 



318 

 Digestion, age, species, and indi- 

 viduality in, 325 

 coefficients, 318 

 definition of, 311 

 Digestive juices, 313 ff 



tract, diagram of, 312 

 parts of, 311 

 Diphtheritic roup, 515 

 Dirt floor, construction of, 200 

 Dirty eggs, causes of, 293, 491 

 Disease, inheritance of, 94 

 Diseases of poultry, 40, 94 ff 

 Disinfectants, use of, 190, 291, 293 

 Disciualifications, 58, 59 

 Distributer, definition of, 38 

 Distribution of poultry, 37, 38 

 Divisions of poultry industry, 28 

 Domestic fowl, origin of, 49 

 Domestication, effects of, 53 

 Domini(|UCS, 75 

 Dorkings, 80 



Double mating, purpose of, 171 

 Drainage, importance of, 253, 255 

 Drake, characteristics of, 431 

 number of ducks ]ier, 431 

 Drawing and trussing, o])crationof, 



479, 485 

 Dressed ]ioultrv, average price paid 



for,24 

 Dressing, loss of weight in, 407 



special stvles of, 407 

 Drink, 329, 357 



