INDEX 



535 



Exercise, iiuiKjilaiircof, in feeding;. 



378 

 Kxtenial purasites, 512, 513 



Fancikr, definition of a, 30 

 Fancy poiiifs, economic value, 01 

 Farm brooders, types of, 233 ff 



poultry house, 237 fl 

 income, 20 



keeping, advanta^^es of, 

 39, 232 

 Fasting before killing, 450 

 Fats, composition of, 305 



uses of, 307 

 Fattening, 400 ff 



crates for, 415, 410 



pens, advantages of, 400 



rations for, 403 ff 



results of milk, 401 ff 



use of tallow in, 404 

 Faverolles, 05 

 Feathers, care of, for market, 470 



quotations on, 470 

 Fecundity, 142 ff 



as affected by comfort, 157 



inheritance of, 144 ft' 



object of breeding, 142 

 Feed, amount of, 306, 375, 379 



combinations of, 322, 370 If 



concentrated, 323 



consumed by different classes 

 of stock, 375, 379 ff 

 Feeding, amount and freriucncv of, 

 322,300,375,379 



appliances for, 377 ff 



basis of, 377 



chicks, principles of, 3S2 



duckhngs, 433 



exercise, necessity of, 378 



for fattening, 299, 400 If 



hoppers, dry mash, 400 ff 



objects of, 297 



practice of, 377 ff 



problem of, 378 



production of growth, 298 

 of heat, 297 



purpose of, 297, 372 



regularity in, 378 



shelf for, 282, 284, 407 



troughs for, 412 



wet mash, 324, 374, 380 ff 



Feeding, wet mask /(/■.^//.s drv, 



380 If 

 Feeds, animal, 322, 341, 343, 347 

 357 



classification of, 329 (f 



digestibility of, 318 ff 



effects of cooking on, 324 

 on product, 373 



mash constituents, 330 



mineralj 353 



palatal)ility of, 324, 308 



succulent, 348 ff 



stimulating, 339 



wetting of,"324ff, 374, 380 

 Feedstuffs, curing of, eft'ect on, 2 1 1, 

 325 



effect of age on, 325 

 Felch's Breeding System, 120 

 Fences, 291 



Fertile egg, ai)pearance of, 225, 493 

 Fertility, cessation of, 107 



time required after mating, 

 100 

 Finishmg table poultry, 391, 400 ff 

 Fish scrap, 341 



Fixtures for poultry house, 277 ft' 

 Floor s])ace in poultry house, 213, 



203 ff 

 Floors, construction of, 20() 

 Flour, low grade, 341') 

 Follu4e, 84 

 Forcing for egg production, /;92 ff, 



398 ' 

 Fowl, cholera, 508 



classification of, 474 



composition of, 304 



origin of domestic, 49 



temperature of, 297 

 Frame picking, 401 

 Fresh air, importance of, 255, 258 

 Frosted wattles and combs, 509 

 Future, limiting factors of, 42 



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Gall-hladdkr, 312 



Gaffus bankiva, 50 



Gapes, 510 



Gastric juice, use of, 313 



Geese, advantages of, 435 

 Embdcn, 435 

 feeding of, 439 ff 

 live, plucking of, 438 



