INDEX 



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Introduction 3 



Experience Necessary 5 



When Does It Pay to Incubate Eggs 6 



The Hatching of Chicks with Incubators 7 



Cleaning Up After the Carpenters 10 



Water Proofing Cement Floors 10 



The Building of a Real Profitable Poultry Business — 



Handling the Chicks 10 



Feeding Baby Chicks 12 



Hatch Eggs From Heavy Producing Hens 13 



Plant Sunflowers and Green Feed 13 



Do Not Feed Baby Chickens Coarse Grit 13 



To Eliminate Stick-tite Fleas From Poultry Houses, 



Yards, Etc 13 



A Formula for the Feeding of Broilers for the Early 



Market 14 



Special Culling and Feeding Pullets for Egg Production.... 14 



Chicks Hatched Early Are Most Profitable 15 



Caponizing 17 



Marketing 17 



The Culling of Pullets 17 



The Best Ration Is the Cheapest. 18 



Slackers Eat Up Profits 19 



A Few Practical Poultry Pointers as Practiced by Pro- 

 gressive Poultry People 21 



The Inclosed System Versus the Open Yard 34 



A Few Things One Should Know 35 



The Gleaning of the Eggs 35 



If a Chicken has Cholera 35 



Apoplexy 37 



Vertigo 37 



Contagious Catarrh or Roup 37 



Pip 38 



Bumble Foot 38 



is Eggbound 38 



has Chicken Pox 39 



goes Light 39 



has Tuberculosis 40 



" Gapes 40 



is Crop-bound 40 



has Limber-neck 40 



" Coccidiosis 41 



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