580 



INDEX 



Breeding, out-, 373 



pelvic bones, 378 



prepotency, 384 

 Brewers' grains, 212 

 Broiler plant, 129 

 Broilers, squab, 351 

 Bronchitis, 478 

 Bronze turkey, 540 

 Brooders, careless operation, 298' 



colony, 301 



common defects in, 298 



fireless, 300 



fuel for, 306 



hot water, 300 



houses, 307 



hovers, individual, 301 



stoves, 303 



thermometer, 310 

 Broodiness, 339 



coops for breaking up, 345 



loss of plumage in, 344 



time lost in, 343 

 Brooding, artificial, 295 



hover breaking, 310 



methods of, 299 



requirements of, 298 



systems; 296 

 Broody hen coop, 141 

 Broom corn seed, 201 

 Buckeyes, 61 

 Buckwheat, 200 



bran, 212 



middlings, 212 

 Buff turkey, 542 

 Building construction, 109 

 Bulky food, need for, 207 

 Bumble foot, 479 

 Business principles, 82 

 Buttercups, Sicilian, 8i 

 By-products, poultry, 445 



Cabbage, 229 



Cabinet, egg, revolving, 260 

 Calluses, corns, 479 

 Calomel, 475 

 Camphor, spirits of, 475 

 Campines, 38 

 Canadian geese, 531 

 Canker, 480 

 Cannibalism, 324 

 Capacity, abdominal, 378 

 Caponizing, 358 



Caponizing, best breeds for, 361 

 dressing capons, 362 

 instruments, 363 

 losses, 368 

 operation, 364 

 slips, 369 



Carbohydrates, 191 



Carbolated vaseline, 475 



Carneaux pigeon, 565 



Castor oil, 474 



Castration, 358 



Catarrh, 480 



Catching hook, 162 



Cellar, incubator, 243 



Cement floors, 119 



Census, poultry, 1910, 3 



Chalaza, 395 



Charcoal, 221 



Chart of poultry production, 4 



Chicken pox, 480 



Chickens, origin of, i 



composition of, 186 



Chicks, care of, 325 



destroy dead bodies, 333 

 essentials to health, 322 

 feeds for, 312 

 growth of, 313 

 habits, bad, 323 

 learning to eat, 315 

 on range, 325 

 over-crowding, 326 

 over-feeding, 313 

 rations for, 321 

 runs and yards, 131 

 scavengers, 333 

 scratch grains for, 318 

 unlimited feed, 328 

 water for, 322 



Chinese geese, 531 



Cholera, 480 



Cleanliness, 132 



Clipping wings, 469 



Clover, pasture, 227 



short cut, 223 



Coal ashes, 517 



Cochins, 49 



Cockerels, fattening, 349 

 surplus, 347 



Cold storage eggs, 436 



Colds, 480 



Colony brooders, 301 



Color breeding tests, 380 



Colored Egyptian geese, 532 



Composite birds, 63 



