INDEX 
A 
ALBUMINOID ratio, 158 
American hen, 19 
Ancona, 216 
Andalusian, 217 
B 
BACKYARDERS, 26 
Balance-sheets, 25, 38, 39, 64, 68, 74 
Bantams, 218 
Birds to select, 33, 46 
Blood-heat of fowls, 61 
Boxes, chicken, 197 
Brahma, 218 
Bran, 160 
Breed, heavy and light, 125 
Breeders, names of, 43 
Breeding, for egg-production, 183 ; and 
selection, 103 ; line, 191 ; science of, 
122; sex, 185 
Brewers’ grains, 161 
Brooder, fireless, 98 ; houses, 235, 237 
Broodiness, 232 
Building materials, 113-118 
Buying chickens, 48 
CAMPINES, 218 
Cheap foods, 161 
Chick feeds, 85, 88 
Chickens, hatching, 77, 80; need of 
oxygen for, 291 ; newly hatched, 194 ; 
rearing, 82; treatment on arrival, 
198 ; when to dispatch, 197 
Cochins, 219 
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Colonial competitions, 130 
Commercial egg-farming, 191 
Co-operation, 200 
Egg-collecting clubs, 202 
Egg societies, 203 
Egg supplies, 205 
Eggs, payment for, 206 
Coops, 80 : 
Crosses, best first, 294 
Crosses, records of first, 296 
D 
Day-oLp chicks, 97 
Dead in shell, 289 
Diary, 318 
Diseases, colds, 275 ; how to deal with, 
59 
Dorkings, 219 
Dry mash, 134, 144 ; formule, 162, 163 
Dust-bath, 118 
E 
EGG-LAYING competitions, 120 
Victoria, 132 
Eggs, how to get, 99 
Exercise, 306 
; in 
FATTENING, 138 
Faverolles, 220 
Fecundity, 99 
Finance, 52 
Flocks, large v. small, 179 
Food tables, 159 
