CONTENTS 



CHAPTER X 



Egg Laying Rations 146 



Selection of a ration — Balanced rations — The nutritive 

 ratio — Value of animal protein feeds — Vegetable protein 

 feeds — Conunercial scratch mixtures and mashes — Effect 

 of feed on quality of eggs 



CHAPTER XI 

 Feeding and Fattening Chickens . . . . . . 156 



Feeding baby chicks — Feed for growing chickens — ^Fatten- 

 ing poultry for market — Best chickens to fatten — 

 Method of pen fattening — Crate fattening — Fattening 

 hens — Fattening rations — Feather picking — Length of 

 fattening period — Cramming poultry — Best time to mar- 

 ket poultry — Selling hens alive — Shrinkage in dress- 

 ing poultry — Feeding and shipping live poultry 



CHAPTER Xn 



Management or Laying Stock 182 



Value of early hatching — Exercise — Use of artificial 

 lights — Kind of light to use — Forcing the molt and feed- 

 ing during the summer — Culling and selection of stock — 

 Difference in methods of feeding hens and pullets — Man- 

 agement of breeding stock and male birds — Management 

 of broody hens 



CHAPTER Xni 



Feeding Ducks. Gkese, Turkeys, Pigeons and Capons . 194 



The feeding of ducks — Feeding ducklings — Feeding breed- 

 ing and laying ducks — Feeding geese — Feeding the gos- 

 lings — Preparing for market — Noodling geese — Feeding 

 turkeys — Feeding turkey poults — Fattening turkeys — 

 Feeding pigeons — Feeding squab breeders — Composition 

 of pigeon feedstuffs — Feeding flying pigeons — Feeding 

 capons 



CHAPTER XIV 



Profit and Economy in Poultry Feeding 214 



Feed cost of producing eggs — Feed consumed per dozen 

 eggs at Government poultry-farm and at egg-laying 

 contests — Monthly record of total feed consumed per 

 dozen eggs and egg yield per hen at the Government farm 

 — Feed cost of growing chickens — Feed required to grow 

 chickens — Norn;al weight of growing chickens — Labor 

 cost of producing eggs — Growing crops on poultry 

 farms^Care of yards and ranges — Oat sprouters — Labor- 

 saving devices 



Appendix 236 



Table I— Egg Laying Rations; Table II— Composition 

 and Digestible Nutrients of Poultry Feeds 



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