INDEX 



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Accounts 114 



Age, distinguishing 59 



" limit 6 



" of selling 15 



" profitable 5 



" recording 56 



Advertisment analyzed ... 83 



fraudulent . . 79 



Antwerps, age recognized 59 



Archangels 19 



Average, production 17 



Banding 92 



breeders 9 



Bands described 92 



Bath 53 



Birds, buying 9 



carrying Ill 



catching Ill 



old 80 



price for mated . . 112 



raised a year 15 



receiving Ill 



profit in sale of 



mated 113 



to know mated .... 87 



unmated 6 



utility of barren . . 110 



Boss pigeons 90 



Breed, best 19 



Breeders, banded 9 



deceived as to 



sex 56 



improving 88 



" selecting 88 



Buying 79 



" example of 85 



unwise 81 



Caraeau, Red 19 



Canker 104 



Capacity, breeding 15 



Carbolic acid for lice .... 106 



Cards, records on 95 



Care of young birds 89 



Carriers, age recognized .. 59 



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Caveat emptor 83 



Challenge, production .... 17 



Charcoal 43, 55 



Cholera 105 



Cleanliness essential to 



health 21, 102 



in houses 55 



prevents lice .. 107 



Cloth for shading 31 



Cock hatches first 94 



Constitutions injured by 



inbreeding 95 



Corn, importance of small 41 



" sift cracked 41 



" tends to yellow skins 114 



Courtship 77 



Crosses of breeds 19 



Cupola for ventilation ... 26 



Dampness, to avoid 21 



Darkness of skin 113 



Dealers, unscrupulous ... 82 



Difficulties overcome 4 



Disease preventions . . 102, 105 

 Disinfection of fountain . . 108 

 Drainage, importance of . . 21 

 Dragoons, age indicated . . 59 



blood 15 



experiments with 19 



Dressing for market 61 



Dropper described 102 



Dryness essential to health 102 

 Duchesse, experiments with 17 

 Eggs chilled 67 



" soft shelled 49 



Enlarging the plant 3 



Equipment for dressing ... 61 



Experiences, breeders' ... 17 



raisers' 80 



" in investing .. 97 



Exposure, house 21 



Extra mated birds 81 



Feed, folly of feeding 



cheap 40 



" how much 45, 52 



