INDEX 



357 



Dropping board, 147. 

 Dry-picking, 297. 

 Drying washed birds, 270. 

 Ducks — 



Aylesbury, 242. 



Buff, 243. 



Cayuga, 243. 



Egg class of, 244. 



eggs, 69. 



feeding for exhibition, 271. 



feeding for market, 295. 



Indian Runner, 244. 



management of, 245. 



marketing of, 295. 



meat class, 240. 



Muscovy, 242. 



Ornamental class, 245. 



Pekin, 240. 



preparing for exhibition, 271. 



Rouen, 243. 



Swedish, 244. 

 Dust boxes, 150. 

 Dusting for lice, 93, 179, 180. 



sitting hen, 77. 



Ear lobe, color of, 349. 

 Education, poultry, 16. 

 Egg- 

 albumen of, 68. 



breeds, 30. 



development of, 198. 



eating, 173. 



laying rations, 211. 



membranes, 67. 

 ■ nest, 76, 281. 



producing organs, 199, 231. 



record, 325. 



study of, 67. 



tonics, 205. 



turning cabinet, 69, 70. 



yolk of, 68, 108, 345. 



anormal, 70. 



and poultry, value of, 11. 



blood ring of, 286. 



bloom of, 69. 



breeding for, 59. 



candling of, 86. 



cleaning, 69, 121. 



cooling in incubator, 84. 



cost of producing, 216. 



cracked, 286. 



crate for, 287, 



culling hens for, 222. 



Eggs— 



dead-germ, 87, 88. 



dirty, 286. 



duck, 69. 



essentials for production of, 

 198. 



exhibits of, 277. 



"extras," 284. 



feeding for, 211, 215. 



fertOe, 68, 87, 88. 



fresh, 69. 



gathering, 69, 282. 



grading, 282. 



heated, 285. 



high production of, 26, 30. 



incubation of, 67. 



infertile, 87, 88, 280. 



kind to preserve, 120. 



"leaker,'' 286. 



market grades of, 283. 



marketing, 280, 287. 



mixing of during incubation, 

 69. 



packing, 70, 287, 289. 



preserving, 120. 



production, feeding for, 211. 



''rots," 286. 



score card for, 343, 344. 



shape of, 345. 



shell color, 345. 



shell texture, 345. 



shrunken, 285. 



selected for incubation, 68. 



size of, 345. 



small, 285. 



soiled, 69. 



"special," 283. 



"spots,"' 286. 



storing, 282. 



thin-shelled, 70. 



testing, 86. 



tester, 87. 



turning of in incubation, 84. 



uniformity of, 282. 



variation in production of, 

 216. 



watery, 286. 



weight of, 283, 284, 285, 345. 

 Egyptian geese, 247. 

 Electric incubator, 79. 



lights, 219. 

 Emden geese, 246. 



