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FIRST LESSON IS IN POULTHY KEEPING. 



Nests, number nee(lfd,125. 

 Nests, skeleton, 126. 

 Nitrogenous food elements, 113. 

 NooDnia5h,9. 

 Nutritive ratio, 113. 

 Oats as food, 7, 116. 

 O'Brien's poultry house, 86. 

 Original ideas'in feeding, 118. 

 Orplngtou type, 26. 

 Overcrowding chicks, 57. 

 Oyster shell, 8. 

 Parti-colors, 27. 

 Pattlson's poultry house, 80. 

 Pea comb, 28. 



Penciled varieties, mating, 32. 

 Perfection, physical, 20. 

 Pit Game type, 27. 

 Plymoutli Rock type, 26. 

 Polish type, 26. 

 Positionof walk, 61. 

 Potential energy, 113. 

 Poultry house fixtures, 120. 

 Poultry keeper, defined, 18. 

 Poultry shows, 140. 



Prices for drawn and undrawn poultry, 158. 

 Proteids, 113. 

 Protein, 113. 

 Provender, 7. 



Quality io poultry house construction, 62. 

 Railroad ties for poultry house, 63. 

 Range for chicks, 55. 

 Range, yards and, 91. 

 Ration, a dry grain, 12. 

 Rations, a few good sample, 11. 

 Rations, dry mash, 12. 

 Rations for molting hens, 98. 

 Ratio, nutritive, 113. 

 Rearing chicks with liens, 4:3. 

 Red dog flour, 8. 

 Red varieties, mating, 30. 

 Resting eggs, 39. 

 Roofings, prepared, 64. 

 Roofs, styles of, 62. 

 Roosting in trees, chicks, 54. 

 Roosts, 121. 

 ■ Roost, teaching chicks to, T)*. 

 Rose comb, 28. 

 Ryan's poultry house. 8^5. 

 Sales, seiison of, 164. 

 Sample rations, 11. 

 Scalding, 158. 

 Scaly legs, 143. 



Scientific feeding, so-called. 112. 

 Scralchingfor exercise, UJ. 

 Scratching room housfs, (il. 

 Scratching shed houses. 01 . 

 Selecting hens for molherfe, 46. 

 Selecting hens to keep ovc r, 92. 

 Selection, 19. 



Selection, novices' errors in, 21. 

 Selection of exhibition spcciinens, 141. 

 Selection of sitting hf^ns. JiS. 

 Selling eggs fwr hatchln^^ inri. 

 Selling to private trade. \i>:>. 

 Semi-monitor top roof, 62. 

 Sepiirate vf>. continuous Imuscs, 99. 

 Separating chicks, 57. 

 Setting liens, "5. 



Shade, 48. 



Shape, breed, 20, 24. 



Shell, S. 



Shelters for chicks, 54. 



Shingles, 64. 



'Shipping eggs for hatching, 165. 



Shipping exhibition fowls, 147. 



Shipping stock, 164. 



Short£,S. 



Show, care of fowls at, 148. 



Shows, poultry, 140. 



Sick fowls, breeding from, 28. 



Silver laced varieties, mating, 33. 



Silver penciled varieties, mating, 32. 



Single comb, 28. 



Single pen houses, 60. 



Sitting hens, food and care of, 39. 



Skeleton nests, 126. 



Special feeding, 96. 



Standard matings, 21. 



Standard used in judging, 140. 



Strawfor litter, 137. 



Sugar beets, 137. 



Sulpho-napihol for mites, loH. 



Summer, fattening foods in, 97. 



Summer feeding, 95. 



Summer management of fowls, 91. 



Tails, wry, 142. 



Temperature to keep eggs for hatching, ; 



Testing eggs, 41. 



Theory of scientific feeding, 113. 



Tiers, placing nests for sitters in, 37. 



Time of feeding, 96. 



Tobacco leaves for nests, :;7. 



Tr)es, 29. 



Troughs, feed, 51, 123. 



Turning eggs Icept for liati-hing, 39. 



Two or more pen houses. ii(t. 



Types. Asiatic, 25. 



Types, Mediierraneau, 2-i. 



Undercolor, 32. 



Values, the question of, 16i. 



Vegetable foods, 8, 16. 



Vegetable mash, 12. 



Ventilation, 60, 94. 



"Walk, doing work from, lu4. 



■\VaIk, houses with, 61. 



Walks in continuous houses, 104. 



Walls, height of. 62. 



Washing fowls, 1-1(J. 



Water for chicks, 52. 



A\'attles, 28. 



Weight, to increase rapidly, 145. 



Wheat, liard vs. soft. 119. 



When to set hens, 'ih. 



White middlings, 8. 



White varielies, mating, 2P. 



Whitewashing, 136. 



M'liy people J;iil in poultry ki-epiug, 5. 



Width of house witli walk, t;4. 



Winter, foi'iling laying stock in, 14. 



AViiiter, getting ready for, IS-!. 



Winter quarters, putting stock into, 135. 



\\'inter supplies, lofj. 



Wyandotte ty]>e. 2)i. 



\tivi\ room for ehit-ks, 66. 



Yards and range, 94. 



Yards, renovating, 136. 



