174 INDEX 
Capital ; ; : : é ‘ . ie 22 
Candling : ‘ ‘ji . . 126 
Cost of production a 1 dea eggs . ‘ ‘ 141 
Characteristics of breeds : ; 3 é ‘ 142 
Composition of an egg . , F ‘ ; 142 
Common diseases of chicken ‘ : ‘ 7 147 
Comparison of small and large flocks . ‘ . 45-48 
Caution in house building . é ‘ j ‘ 49 
Commercial hovers ; ; ‘ , F ‘ 60 
Cost of hen hatching . : 3 ‘ ‘i : 78 
D 
Diarrhea ‘ . ‘i ‘ és ‘ 150 
Ducks need spect amarberé . P s e 162 
Does it pay to keep ducks? . - é ; ‘ 162 
Dont’s learned from experience . - . . 165 
Duty to your customers . : . F . . 113 
Dimensions of egg cases é ‘i ‘ 3 - 121 
Dirty eggs. : iS F é 123 
Description of laying house . : 3 s : 51 
Distribution of egg production . ‘ : . 140-1 
Details of colony house ‘ - 3 ‘ 58 
Details brooder and incubator house : . : 69 
Details of hen brooder coop : é . . 65 
Delivery crate : ; ‘ ‘ ‘ 3 3 140 
Distance from market. : : ; - ‘ 29 
E 
Eggs should be sold by weight 3 ‘ F ‘ 143 
Effect of feed on flavor of eggs . ‘5 x : 143 
Encouragements of the business . ‘ - é 8 
F 
Fifty thousand eggs shipped—one claim ; ; 117 
Fruit trees in chicken yard . . : 155 
Fertility of eggs ; ; ; : 7 158-72-73 
Furring strips 3 ‘ : . ; 160 
Fire insurance . ‘ _ ‘i ‘ 170 
Forcing pullets for laying  . : : . ‘ 97 
