INDEX 



Abnormal eggs, 402 

 Accounts, record of, 95 

 Aconite, tincture, 475 

 Adaptable hovers, 301 

 Advertising, value of, 82 



on egg cases, 91 

 African geese, 530 

 Agglutination test, 508 

 Ailments, poultry, 471 

 Air cell in egg, 269 

 Albumen, egg, 395 

 Alfalfa pasture, 227 



shredded, 222 

 American class, breeds, 53 

 Analysis of breeds, 1 1 

 Anatomy of fowl, 458 

 Anconas, 34 

 Andalusians, 33 

 Animal foods, 215 

 Appetite, 185 

 Appliances, poultry, 144 

 Artificial brooding, 295 



incubation, 235 



lighting, 573 

 Asafetida, 482 

 Aseels, White, 40 

 Ash feeds, 188 

 Asiatic class, breeds, 46 

 Asparagus chickens, 351 

 Assimilation of food, 189 

 Asthenia, 477 



Automatic feeders, 151, 180 

 Aylesbury ducks, 524 



B 



Baby chick industry, 270 

 Backyard plant, 10 

 Bacterium pullorum, 502 

 Bagging down, 478 

 Baking soda, 474 

 Balanced rations, 184 

 Baldness, 479 

 Bantams, 70 



Barley feed, 199 



ground, 212 

 Barrels, water, 149 

 Beard, 68 



Beet pulp, dried, 223 

 Beets, mangel, 229 

 Bench picking, 434 

 Bi-carbonate of soda, 474 

 Bird pox, 480 

 Bismuth nitrate, 475 

 Blackhead, 478 

 Blapk Spanish, 32 

 Black turkey, 542, 

 Bleeding fowls, 354 

 Blood clots, 404 

 Bloody eggs, 404 

 Bloom on egg shell, 395 

 Bone cutter, 181 



granulated, 217 



green cut, 217 

 Booted shank, 69 

 Bourbon Red turkey, 541 

 Braekels, 41 

 Brahmas, Dark, 48 



Light, 47 

 Bran, 209 

 Brassiness, 64 

 Bread crumbs, 316 

 Breaking up broodiness, 339 

 Breeding, aim in, 372 



capacity, 378 



color tests, 380 



conduct, 382 



cross, 374 



depth of abdomen, 378 



heavy-laying strain, 377 



hybrids, 374 



importance of male, 382 



late molters, 382 



line, 372 



Maine experiment, 385 



mongrels, 376 



naked truths, 387 



number of males required, 

 385 



579 



