INDEX 



539 



Plymouth Rocks, 63, 75 



Vjreeding of barrrd vari- 

 ety, 114 ff 

 history of, 75 ff 

 Poisoniny;, 514, 515 

 Portable, colony house, 2S5 

 hover, 233 



and soil fertility, 46 

 Poultry, average value of, IS 



classifiGation of, determining 



market, 473, 478 

 cooling and shipping dressed, 



464 

 decomposition of drawn and 



undrawn, 47 1 

 definition of, 17 

 early American, 27, 52 

 farm consumption of, 21 

 farms, special, 32, 34 

 faults in dressed, 465 

 geographical distribution of, 



26 

 grading of, 109, 473 

 home consum])tion of, 21 

 income of ten best states, 20, 



21 

 incubation period of, 197 

 industr3', 17 ff 



magnitude of, 19 

 organization of, 28 

 limits of production of, 42 

 manufacturing efficiency of, 



45 

 number of farms reporting on, 



18 

 operations incident to dress- 

 ing, 456 

 origin of, 49 

 preparation of products for 



market, 451 ff 

 preparing of, for market, 456 

 rank of states as to fowls kept. 



27 

 singeing of, for market, 464, 479 

 statistics, 17, 18, 19, 21, 523 ff 

 tendency of the industry, 39 ff 

 in United States, 27 

 value of farm production, 27 

 Poults, care and feeding of, 425 

 Predetermining fertility and sex 



190 

 Prepotency, mark of, 117 

 Preservation of eggs, 36, 501 

 Primitive streak, 180 i 



Producer to consumer, route of 

 poultry products, 37 

 defined, 32 

 Products, purpose of preparation, 

 455 

 seasonal distriljution, 451 ff 

 Protein defined, 302 

 function of, 302 

 Ptomain poisoning, 515 

 Pullets, developing of, 391 



spaying of, 105 

 Pumjikins, 351 

 Pure bred defined, 57 

 sires, 109 



Racks for cooling, 465 

 Range, advantages of, 41, 291 

 Rape, 351 

 Ration, balanced, 360 



chick, 384 ff 



composition of, 370 



computing of, 3G5 



cost of, 374 



definition of, 360 



digestibiUty of, 371 



maintenance, 361 



nutritive effect, 369 



palatability of a, 368 



requirements of a, 360 ff 



typical laying, 396 

 Record of eighteen farm flocks, 41 

 Rectum, location of, 316 

 Red Caps, 64 



dog flour, 346 

 Regularity, importance of, in feed- 

 ing, 378 

 lieproduction, 84 ff, 175 



physical basis of, 84 

 Reproductive organs, 84 ff 

 female, 84 

 male, 9 Iff 

 licspiratory system, 256 

 Rhode Island Reds, history and 



origin of, 80 

 Rice, 334 

 Roaster, definition of, 473 ff 



styles of packing of, 476 

 Hoofing materials, 275 

 Roosters, classification of, 473 

 Fvoosts, 281 

 Rots, 499, 500 



