INDEX 



Grit, 131 

 Composition of limestone, 95 

 For turkeys and fattening, 131 



Hemp Seed, for pigeons, 79 



Hominy, 5 



Hoppers for Mash, 230, 231, 232, 



234 

 Outdoor feed, 233 



Jewish Holidays affecting prices, 

 176 



Kaffir, 64, 67 

 Kale, 109 



Lactic Acid, 22 

 Labor survey, 224 



Cost of Producing eggs, 221 



Saving devices, 230 

 Lights, i8s 



Effect on breeding fowls, 186 



Evening lunch, 18 

 Linseed Meal, T;, 78 



Testing, 78 



Use for moulting, 79 

 Live poultry shipping, 180, 181 



Description of cars, 180 



Malt sprouts, 63 



Management of poultry, 214, 

 215, 223 



Back yard flock, 142, 143, 144 



Breeding hens, 185, 190 



Broody hens, 191 



Exercise, 138 



Farm flock, 140, 141 



Land required for raising 

 grain, 223 



Laying hens, 185 



Males, 190 



Proportion of grain to mash, 

 137, 138 

 Marketing Poultry, 174 



Age to market hens, 178, 179 



Hens, live and dressed, 175 



Prices for live chickens, 175 



Prices for live and dressed 

 fowls, 177 



Mash, use of, 118 



The amount to use, 119 



How mixed, 123 



Wet versus dry, 118, 1 19 

 Meat (fresh), 84 



Horse meat, 84 

 Meat Scrap, 82 



Amount to use, 83 



How produced, 82 



Meal, 82 



Tests for quality, 83 

 Milk, 88, 89 



Composition, 8g 



Skim Milk, 88 



Use in fattening, 2>7 



Whey, 89 

 Milk (dried), 90, 91 

 Milk (semi-solid), 90, 91 



In fattening, 169 

 Millet, 67 

 Minerals, 24 



Amount in plants, 17, 19 



Feeds, 95, 96 



Lime Stone Grit, 96 



Per cent in poultry and eggs, 

 24 



Rock phosphate, 96 



Source of, in feeds, 25 

 Molasses, 92 



Beet molasses, 93 



Feeds, 93 

 Mortality in chicks, 219 

 Moulting, 187, 188 



Nitrogenous Compounds, pro- 

 duction of, 19 

 Nutrients (essential), 42 



Affected by origin, 47 



Effect of drying, 43 



Fat soluble (A), 42, 43 



Sources of, 43 



Table of digestible, 239, 240, 

 241 



Water soluble (B), 42, 43 

 Nutritive Ration, 44, 147 



Balanced ration, 43 



Examples of, 45 



245 



