FIBfiT LESSONS IX POULTMY KEEPING. 



167 



Fattening poultry, 149. 



Feiitbers on bliunks, 141. 



Feuthers, removing broken, 143, 



Feed, how niiicb, 15. 



Feed, how often to, 14. 



Feed, how to I earn to, 117. 



Feeding, best way to eoononiize -a. 134. 



Feeding chicks for stock purposes, Otj. 



Feeding growing cliicks, 55. 



Feeding market chicks, 56. 



Feeding, practice in, 118. 



Feedluj.', simple vs. scientlflc, ITJ. 



Feeding, special, 96. 



Feeding, summer, 95. 



Feeding, three prime fjielori* in, lin. 



Feeding young chicks, 48. 



Feed. keei>ing by chicks, 51 . 



Feed tronghe, boxes and lioppers, 12'6. 



■Feed tionghs for chicks, 51. 



Fences, permanent, 130. 



iFence, tlie simplest, 129. 



Fitting for exhibition, 144. 



Fixed feeding standards. 115. 



Fixtures, poultry liouse, 1'20. 



Floors, 64. 



Fluor space per fowl, 63, 



Flour, 8, 63. 



Food elements. 113. 



Food for sitting hens, 39. 



Foods, 7. 



Food supplies for a flock, 8, 



Forcing exhibition fowls for weight, 145. 



Foundations, C4. 



Fowl, how to cjutcli a. 143. 



Fowls, how judged, 14ti. 



Fresli air, importance of, 135. 



■Game types, 36. 



•Grates, 132. 



•Golden Laced varieties, mating, 33. 



Gulden Penciled varieties, mating, 33. 



Grain and meat raasli, 12. 



Grain, iiow mucli, 16. 



»Green food, 8, 95. 



Green food in fitting exhibition fowls, 144. 



Green foods, winter supply, 137. 



Grit, 8. 



Grit, shell, etc., receptacles, 128, 



Grooming exhibition fowls, 145, 



Grosvenor's-poultry house, ST. 



Hamburg type, 26. 



Hatching, what to do when, 42. 



Hatching with hens, 35. 



Hawk proof coops, 45. 



Hay for litter, 137. 



Height of walls, 62. 



Helping chicksoutof sliell, 42. 



H ens, old, as I ayers, 91. 



Holding poultry forhigh prices, 1&7. 



Hoppers, feed, 123. 



Houdan type, 26. 



House capacity and dimensions, 63. 



House for a dozen fowls, 67. 



House for twenty-five fowls, 7S. 



House for seveuly-five fowls, 70. 



Houses, brooder, 109,_ 



Houses, continuous vs. separate, 99. 



Houses, making ready for winter, 136. 



House with walk, width.of,-64. 



Housing methods, 60. 

 How ofteu to feed, 14, 51. 

 How to catch a fowl, 143, 

 How to make a nest, 37. 

 How to scald a fowl, 160. 

 How to set hens, 38. 

 Inbreeding, 23. 

 Incubator rooms, 1C6. 

 Indian Game type, 27. 

 Insecticides, using, 41. 

 Java type, 26. 

 Johiinycake, 50. 

 Jumping for exercise, 17. 

 Killing poultry, 158. 

 Laced varieties, mating, :i3, 

 Langshan type, 25, 

 Late hatched chicles, 58. 

 Layers, old hens as, 91. 

 Fiaying stock, fecdiugln winter, 14. 

 Le;tf comb, 28. 

 I^eaves for litter, 137. 

 Leghorn type, 25. 

 Legs, 29. 



Lice, ti'eating chicks for, 52. 

 Lice, treating sitting hens for, 41. 

 Light Brahmas, mating, 32. 

 Like begets like, 19. 

 Line breeding, 23. 

 Literature of mating fowls, 34. 

 Litter, 137. 



Live poultry, selling, 157. 

 Lo])i)ed comb, 142. 

 Machine fattening, 163. 

 .Maine poultry house, 80. 

 .Making a mash, 12. 

 Mangels, 137. 

 Marking chicks, 46. 

 Mash, feeding, 9. 

 Mash, how niucli, 15. 

 Mash, making a, 12. 

 Materials, building, 64. 

 Maling, 21, 29. 

 Mating, 'double, 22. 

 .Mating, engaging expeits for, 22. 

 Mating fowls,literature of, 34, 

 Mating, two systems of, 31. 

 Meat and grain mash, 12. 

 Meat foods, 8. 

 Meat, how much to feed. 16. 

 Methods of feeding, 9. 

 Middlemen, 154. 

 Middlings, 8. 

 Milk for fowls, S. 

 Millet, quality and feeding,?. 

 Minorca type, 23. 

 Mites, 136. 

 Mixed chop, 7. 

 Molting, 97. 



Mill ting hens, rations for, 98. 

 Monitor-top liouse, 62. 

 M'lrniogmash, 9. 

 Mothers, faults of hens as, 4o. 

 Mothers, selecting hens for, 46. 

 Nature's checks and balances. 114, 

 Nest boxes for sitting hens, 36. 

 Nests confining hens to, 40. 

 , Nest, how to make a, 37. 

 Neslsfor laying hens, 125. 



