540 



INDEX 



liouen ducks, G6, 429 

 lioup, 515 

 Rye, 334 



pabturu, 351 



Sunlight, importance of, 2J3, 200 

 Sunstroke, 518 

 Sussex, (i4 



S 



Salt, 355 



Scald picking, 400 



Scaly leg, 517 



Scratch feed, 390 



Screenings, wheat, 330 



Selection, purpose of, 133 



Sex glands, 84 ff 



description of, 84, 95 

 function of, 91 

 Shade and shelter, necessity of, 251 

 Slianks, removing of, S3 ff 

 Shed roof poultry house, 283 ff 

 Shell, formation of, 89, 175 IT 



layers of, 170 



membrane, 88, 170 



construction of, 177 



oyster, 350 

 Sliorts, wheat, 340 

 Shrubbery, use of, 253 

 Skim milk, 357 

 Sick birds, care of, 503 

 Silage, 351 



Singeing, method of, 479 

 Slii)S, classification of, 473, 474 

 Soil, 253 



conservation of fertility of, 40 

 Spleen, 312 

 Spot eggs, 499 



Springs, classification of, 473 

 Sprouted oats, 351 

 Stags, chissification of, 473, 174 

 Stained (>gg^;, 491 

 Standard l)red defined, 59 



pack, 470 



of perfection, 57 

 Stencils, use of, 477 

 Sticking knife, 458 

 Stomach, glandular, location and 



function "of, 312, 313 

 Stove brooders, 234 ff 

 Straw loft, 275 

 String picking, 401 

 Stud breeding, 171 

 Succulent feeds, 348 

 Siigar, 347 

 Sunflower seeds, 334 



Tapewokms, 521 



Temperature for brooding, 233 if 



for incubation, 181, 205, 224 

 Tendons, pulling of, 481 ff 

 Testers, egg, 225 

 Toe picking, 248 



punching for identification, 

 161 

 Tolrnan house, 2S9 

 Tom, numlier of hens to one, 423 

 Transportation, facilities for, 45 

 'i'roughs, 400 

 Trussing, 485 

 4'uberculosis, 518 

 Turkeys, 07, 418 IT 



blackhead, 425 



Bronze, 67, 419 



decline of raising, 18, 419 



domestication of, 418 



farm production of, 420 



feeding of market, 428 



infectious entero-hepatitis of, 

 425 



nesting of, 424 



number of, IS 



of hens to tom, 423 



round-\ip of, 421 



selection of breeding, 422 



White Holland, 07, 419 

 4\irning eggs during incul-ation, 

 _ 194, 210; 224 

 Turnips, 353 

 Type, breed, 54 



egg, 158 



of houses, 283 



meat, 139 



vigorous, 136 



\'arieties, standai'd, 54 ff 

 Variety defined, 55 

 \'egetable feeds, 322 

 Ventilating system of a hover, 241 

 Ventilation in inculiators, 214, 225 

 necessity of, 215, 258 



