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PRACTICAL POULTRY PRODUCTION 



Concrete floor, 135. 



foundation, 134. 

 Condiments, 205. 

 Conditioning birds, 264. 

 Constitution and by-laws of 



Junior Clubs, 308. 

 Construction — 



cost of, 130 



economy of, 127, 130. 



of houses, 132. 

 Containers for Parcel Post mar- 

 keting, 288. 

 Continental Class, 30. 

 Continuous house plan — 



advantages of, 130. 



disadvantages of, 131. 



framework of, 136. 



plan of, 145, 146. 

 Cooling eggSj 84. 

 Cooping exhibition fowls, 265. 

 Copulation, 61. 

 Corn, 109, 112, 201, 294. 



and cob meal, 201. 



chop, 201. 



cracked, 109, 112, 212, 292. 



Kaffir, 109, 112, 201. 



meal, 109, 110, 112, 201, 212, 

 291, 293, 295. 



silage, 296. 

 Cornish — 



as capons, 187. 



description of, 38. 



standard weights of, 39. 



varieties of, 39. 

 Correlation, 47. 

 Cost of producing eggs, 216. 

 Cottonseed meal, 203, 212. 

 Cracks (eggs), 286. 

 Crating eggs, 287. 

 Creolin, 163, 177. 

 Creosote, 163, 177. 

 Crested breeds, 349. 



head, 51, 53, 55. 

 Crop bound, 171. 

 Crossbreeding, 50. 

 Crossing — out, 48. 

 Crowding chicks, 116. 

 Crow-head, 56. 

 Crude oil, 177. 



petroleum, 183. 

 Culling — 



chart, 348. 



Culling, (continued) 



demonstration, 233. 



growing stock, 222. 



hens, 225, 292. 



kind to cull, 232. 



method of, 225. 



object of, 222. 



time to cull, 224. 

 Curing of feathers, 302. 



Dampness in poultry houses, 



132, 134. 

 Day-old chicks, care of, 106. 

 Dead germ, 87, 88. 

 Defects in breeders, 59. 

 Defective combs, 56, 58. 

 Demonstration — 

 caponizing, 196. 

 contests, 312. 

 culling, 233. 

 egg grading, 304. 

 feed mixing, 119, 221. 

 preserving eggs, 126. 

 selecting the breeders, 66. 

 testing eggs, 91. 

 Department of Agriculture, Fed- 

 eral, 16. 

 Diarrhea as symptom of cholera, 

 162. 

 as symptom of tuberculosis, 



163. 

 in hens, 167. 

 white in chicks, 168. 

 Dimensions of houses, 134. 

 Diseases and treatment, 159. 



possibilities of spreading, 159. 

 Disinfecting and storing incu- 

 bators, 89. 

 Disqualifications for commercial 

 eggs, 343. 



for exhibition eggs, 343. 

 for poultry, 261. 

 Domestication of fowls, 14. 

 Double mating, 60. 

 Double-pitched roof, 140. 

 Drafts, prevention of, 142, 151, 



267. 

 Drawing the fowl, 29S. 

 Dressing capons, 195. 

 Dressing: See Dry-picking. 

 Drinking fountains, 150. 

 as source of spreading disease, 

 159. 



