INDEX 



581 



Composition of eggs, 256 

 Concrete floors, 119- 

 Condiments, 221 

 Conditioning show birds, 460 

 Contagious diseases, 47,1 

 Cooker, feed, 183 

 Cooling eggs, 254 

 Coop, broody hen, 141 

 Corn-and-cob-meal, 211 

 Corn feed, 197 



meal, 210 

 Cornell rations, 196 

 Cornish fowls, 75 

 Cottonseed meal, 212 

 Cow peas, 201 

 Cracked peas, 223 

 Cramming, 350 

 Crate fattening, 350 

 Cremating dead fowls, 338 

 Crested fowls, 70 

 Crevecoeurs, 37, 69 

 Crop bound, 480, 486 



location and function, 486 

 Cross-breeding, 374 

 Crowding chicks, 326 

 Crows, 325 

 Crude fiber, 191 



oil, 514 

 Curtain frames, 124 

 Custom hatching, 270 

 Cutter, bone, i8t 



hay, 182 



vegetable, 182 



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Dampness, effects of, 117 



Dark Brahmas, 48 



Day-old chicks, 270 



advantages to beginners, 275 

 appeal to farmers, 280 

 custom hatching, 270 

 development of industry, 



270 

 few complaints, 281 

 guarantees, 282 

 hatcheries, 272 

 mortality, 279 

 objections to, 280 

 origin of industry, 271 

 pet shop trade, 279 

 shipping methods, 277 

 specialization, 274 



Depluming mites, 483 



Design of houses, 109 



Destroying dead bodies, 333 



Detention coop, 473 



Devices for doors and gates, 153 



Diagnosis of disease, 471 



Diarrhea, 480, 502 



Diet, controlling, 208 



Digestible nutrients, 184 



Digestive organs, 392 . 



Dirt floor, 118 



Diseases, 471 



Disinfectants, 476, 516 



Dislocation, killing by, 547 



Doctoring poultry, 471 



Dominiques, 61 



Doors, 125 



checks for, 160 

 devices for, 153 

 early-rising, 155 

 rat-proof, 158 

 securing stake for, 163 

 self-closing, 160 



Dorkings, 67 



Double matings, 41 



Double-yolk eggs, 391 



Drainage, III 



Dressing poultry, 354 



Dried blood meal, 217 



Drinking vessels, 144 



Drones, 96 



Dropping-boards, 134 



Droppings, eare of, 445 



Dry mash feeding, 206 



Dry-picking poultry, 354 



Dual-purpose breeds, 53 



Dubbing game birds, 73 



Ducks, breeding of, 519 



Dust bath, 143 



Dusting sitting hens, 291 



Early-rising door, 155 

 Economic factors, 16 

 Educational exhibitions, 457 

 Egg, bloom of, 395 



bound, 394 



breeds, 23 



cells, 339, 390 



determination of shape, 395 



development, 266, 390 



diagram of, sectional, 396 



eating habit, 481 



evaporation, 269 



