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INDEX 



Market eggs, shrinkage in, 4SS 



Mash constituents, 330 ff 



Mating, time reiiuired for fertility 



in egg, 106 

 Meat Isreeds, classification of, 01 ff 



fresh, 'i\'i 



scrap, 3-13 



type, characteristics of, 13,9 

 Mediterranean class, origin of, 

 70 

 shxugliter tests of, 80 

 Mesoderm, 1S2 

 MiddUngs, wheat, 345 

 Milk, butter, 357 



skim, 357 



whey, 359 

 Millet, 333 

 Mineral constituents in feeding, 



353 ff 

 Miiiorcas, 04, 71 

 Miles, 513 

 Moisture in incubation, 210-224 



pan, 224 

 Molasses, 345 

 Molt, 152 



feeding during, 398 

 Mouth parts, use of, 311 

 Muscovy ducks, 00, 429 



NicsTiNG material, 198 



Nests, care of, 198 ff 



construction and location of, 



198, 270 

 for hatching, 198 

 trap, 123 



Nutrients, 297 ff 

 defined, 300 

 digestible, required per da\', 



362 ff 

 digestion and, 320 

 from animal sources, 322 

 function of, 300 ff 

 mutual relation of, 300 

 Nature's supply of, 300 

 relation of, to production, 300 

 of vegetable source, 322 



Nutrition of poultry, 297 ff 



Nutritive effect of a teed, 369 

 ratio defined, 326 



O 



Oats, 333 



s|)routed, 351 

 Oil meal, linseed, 340 

 Onions, 350 



Open front poultry house, 270 

 Organic nutrients, 300 

 Organs, female reproductive, 84 



male generative, 95 

 Orpingtons, 64, 80 

 Ovary, function of, 84 ff, 91 ff 



location of, 84 



number of ova, 85 



l)arts of, 86 

 Overcrowding, evils of, 248, 265 

 Oviduct, description of, So 



location of, 85 

 03'ster shells, 350 



Packi.h defined, 30 



function and methods of, 30 

 Packing, methods of, 455 ft', 475 



stencilling the box for, 477 

 Pancreas, location and function of, 



314 

 Pancreatic juice, 314 

 Parasites, external, 512, 513 

 Pasture of poultry, 349, 351 

 Pate de foi gras, 442 

 Pedigreeing, 123 ff 

 Pekin ducks, 60, 429 

 Pen, size of, 265 

 Perches, construction and location 



of, 2S1 

 Periods of incubation, 197 

 Physiological efficiency of fowl, 3 IS 



of reproduction, 84 If 

 Piano-box house, 250 

 Picking, methods of, 400 

 Pigeon, best age for breeders, 443 ff 



breeding of, 443 ff 



I ireeds of, 443 



classes of, 443 



feeding of, 447 



houses for, 446 



mating of, 443 ff 



number of, 18 



squalj breeding, 443 ff 



value of, 18 

 Plans for houses, 271 If 



