INDEX 



585 



Land suitable for poultry, iii 



Langshans, 51 



Laws of breeding, 372 



Lay bones, 378 



Laying houses, 109 



Leaks, business, 95 



Leg bands, loi 



Leghorns, 25 



Leg-weakness, 482 



Letters, business, imp ^rtance of, 89 



Lettuce, 224 



Lice, 482, 509 



powders, 513 

 Light Brahmas, 47 

 Lighting, artificial, 573 

 Limber neck, 482 

 Lime, 514 

 Line-breeding, 372 

 Linseed meal, 212 

 Litter for floors, 117 

 Litters, eggs in series, 339 

 Liver pills, 475 

 Long-tailed Yokohamas, 80 



M 



Magnesia, sulphate of, 475 

 Mail, importance of answering, 89 

 Maine breeding experiment, 385 

 Malays, 75 



bantams," 78 

 Males, importance of, 382 



number required, 385 

 Mammoth incubators, 244 

 Mange, 483 

 Mangel wurtzels, 229 

 Manure, 445 



absorbent for, 449 



acid phosphate, 449 



formulas for crops, 451 



kainit, 449 

 Marketing eggs, 400 

 Marking chicks, 102 



poultry shipments, 357 

 Mash constituents, 208 



hoppers, 144, 188 



mixer, power, 182 

 Materials for buildings, 109 

 Meat breeds, 46 



scrap, 2ig 



guaranteed analysis, 



216 

 testing, 216 

 Medical attendance, 471 

 Medicines, 474 



Mediterranean class, 23 



Mercantile Exchange, New York, 417 



Mexican turkey, 539 



Middlings, wheat, 210 



Milk, albumen, 218 



feeding, 219 



for chicks, 317 



granulated, 218 



whey, 220 

 Millet seed, 202 

 Milo maize, 201 

 Mineral foods, 232 

 Minorcas, 29 

 Mites, 483, 509 

 Mixing feeds, 180 

 Moisture in incubators, 238 

 Molt, 344 

 Molters, late, 382 

 Mongrelism, 376 

 Mottled Anconas, 34 

 Muscovy ducks, 521 

 Muslin curtains, 124 



N 



Narragansett turkey, 540 

 Natural incubation, 283 

 Nests, batteries of, 171 



construction of, 138 



location of, 138 



Maine trap, 171 



single-compartment trap, 

 172 



Storrs' trap, 167 



trap, 166 



two-compartment trap, 173 

 Nitrogen free extract, 191 



in manure, 447 

 Nomenclature of fowls, 458 

 North American turkey, 539 

 Noted centres of production, 7 

 Nutrients, 190 

 Nutritive ratio defined, 184 

 Nux vomica, tincture of, 475 



O 



Oats, feed, 198 



ground, 212 

 sprouted, 231 



formalin, 232 

 mold, 232 

 rack for, 230 

 Ocellated turkey, 539 

 Oil meal, 212 



