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FIJRST LEiSSONS IN POULTRY KEEPING. 



I NDEX 



Advertising, 161. 



Age for weaniug chicks, 53. 



Ap;e of breeding stock, 22. 



Albuminous food elements, 113. 



Alfalfa, 8, 12 37. 



American Dominiques, 26. 



American types, 25. 



Animal food, 95. 



Animal organism, -needs of, 113, 



Appetite, 16. 



Asiatic types, 25. 



Barred varieties, mating, 31. 



Beak, sliape of, 28. 



Beards, 28. 



Black varieties, mating. 29. 



Bonc,liow much to feed, 16. 



Box coops, advantages of, 44. 



Boxes, feed, 123. 



Boxes for grit, sliell, etc., 128. 



Brahma type, 26. 



Bi-au, 8. 



Breeding stock, selection of, 19. 



Breed shape, 20, 24. 



Broken feathers, removing, 143. 



Brooder houses, 109. 



Brood, number in, 47. 



Brown Leghorns, mating, 34. 



Buff varieties, mating, 30. 



Building materials, 64. 



Cabbage, 8, 137. 



Cake, baited for chicks, 60. 



Carbonaceous food elements, 113. 



Cat proof coops, 45. 



Change, effects of, 95. 



Charcoal, 8. 



Chicks, feeding, 48. 



Chicks helping out of shell, 42. 



Chicks, how many in brood, 47. 



Chicks, how often to feed, 51. 



Chicks, late hatched, 58. 



Cliicks, marking, 46. 



Chicks, rearing with hens, 43. 



Chicks, separating, 57. 



Cliicks, taking from nest, 46. 



Clilcks, teaching to roost, 54. 



Chicks, water for, 62. 



Cliicks, weaning, 53. 



Chicks, yard room for, 55. 



Chilled eggs, 41. 



Chloro-naptholeum for mites, 136. 



Cleaning dressed poultry, 160. 



Cleanliness with sitting hens, 40. 



Clipped wings in exhibition fowls, H2. 



Closed houses, 61, 



Clover, 8, 12, 137. 



Cochin type, 25. 



Cold houses, 76. 



Color of plumage, 27. 



Comb, kinds of, 28. 



Comb, lopped, 142. 



Compent-ation maLings, 2T, 



Condiments, 8. 



CondJlion and feeding, 16. 



Confining hens to nests, 40. 



Connecting pen houses. 60. 



Constitutional vigor, 20. 



Continuous house plans, 102. 



Continuous vs. separate liouses,-99L 



Cooling dressed poultry, 160. 



Coops, 43. ' 



Coops, for weaned c^jicks, 53. 



Coops, placing, 47. 



Coons, why use, 45. 



Corn, as food, 114. 



Corn, feeding whole, 7. 



Correspondence, answering, 162., 



Crests, 28. 



Cubic space for fowl, 63. 



Culling chicks, 47. 



Culling young stock, 135. 



Damaged foods, feeding, 119. 



Dark nests, 125. 



Davis' poultry house plan. 7S» 



Disqualifications, 141. 



Dominique, American, 26. 



Dorking type, 26. 



Double comb, see Bose comb. 



Double mating, 22. 



Double mating of Barred Rocks, 31. 



Drinking vessels, 124. 



Droppings boards, 120. 



Dry feeding, 10. 



Dry feed systems, 9. 



Dry grain ration a, 12, 



Dry mash rations, 12. 



Dry picking, 158. 



Du6t b;ith, 41, 128. 



Dust, laying in supply, 136. 



Ear lobes, 28. 



Economy in feeding best, 134v 



Effects of change, 95. 



Egg foods, 8. 



Eggs, chilled, 41. 



Eggs for hatching, about, 39. 



Eggs for hatching, selling, 165. 



Eggs, number to set to a hen, 39-. 



Eggs, testing, 41. 



Evening mash, 9. 



Excelsior for nests, 37. 



Exercise and feeding, 16. 



Exercise in fitting exhibition (owls, 146t 



Exhibiting fowls, 139. 



Exhibition Qamt type, 27. 



Failures, why the, 5. 



Fallacies, some scientific, 114. 



JTats, 113. 



Fattening fowls in summer, 97. 



Fattening old hens, 153. 



