INDEX 



Acorns, 94 



Alfalfa, use of, 97, 102, 128 



Value of, loi, 128 



Meal, 102, 103, 128 

 Anatomy of fowls, 25 



Illustrated, 26 



Backyard flock, management of, 



142, 143, 144 

 Balanced ration explained, 43, 



117, 147 

 Barley, 62 



Malt, 62 



Feed, 63 



Meal, 63 

 Beans, 72 



Cooking, 114 



Pea beans, Ti 



Soy beans, 72, 151 



Soy bean meal, 72, 73, 151 



Velvet bean meal, 151 

 Beets, 106, 127 



Pulp, 91 

 Blood meal, 82 

 Bone, fresh, 84 



Preparation and preserving, 85 



Use of, 85, ISO 

 Bone meal, 85, 96, 150 



Composition, 96 



Ground, 86 

 Bread, 58 

 Brewer's grains (wet), 63 



Dry, 62 



Malt sprouts, 63 

 Buckwheat, value of, 68 



By-products, 68 



Cabbages, 108, 127 

 Capons, 212, 213 



Fattening, 213 



Feed standard, 48 

 Carbohydrates, how produced, 18 



Function of, 42 



Starches and sugars, 18, 53 



Carriers for feed and litter, 235 



Carrots, 107 



Charcoal, 132 



Chicks (feeding), 157 



Amount feed to grow, 160 



Cost of growing, 219 



Green feed for, 160 



Johnycake for, 158 



Weight of growing, 222 

 Chick feeds, 153, 158 



Mash and growing feed, 159 

 Chlorophyll, function of, 18 

 Cleaning poultry house, 183 

 Clover, 103, 104, 128, 129 

 Cocoanut meal, 75 

 Color of yolk, 156 

 Commercial feeds, 121, 144 



Chick feeds, 158 



Selection of, 152 



Use of, 151 



Value of, 122 

 Composition of eggs, 23, 24 

 Composition of feeds (table), 



239, 240, 241 

 Composition of poultry, 23, 24 

 Condimental feeds, 94, 95 

 Com, 51, 52 



Bran, 54 



Gluten meal, 53 



Oil cake, 53, 54 

 Corn meal, 52, 53, 54 

 Corn and cob meal, 52, 54 

 Costs, 215 



Feed for eggs, 215, 216 



Growing chicks, 219 



Labor producing eggs, 221 

 Cottonseed meal, 75, 151 



Cake, 76, "jy 



Grades of, 76 



Hulls, 77 

 Cramming poultry, 173 

 Crate fattening, 166 



Best time for, 167, 172 



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