360 



PRACTICAL POULTRY PRODUCTION 



Hovers — 



capacity of, 100, 101. 



individual, 100. 

 Hungarian pigeons, 253. 

 Hydrogen peroxide, 162, 175. 

 Identifying chickens, 95. 



Inbreeding, 48. 

 Income tax return, 329. 

 Incubation — 



artificial, 78. 



natural, 67, 74. 



periods of, 71. 



progress of, 67. 



temperature of, 83. 

 Incubator — 



capacity of, 79. 



care of at hatching, 88. 



cellar, 80, 81. 



disinfecting and storing, 88. 



electric, 79. 



hatched chickens brooded by 

 hens, 93. 



hot-air, 79. 



hot- water, 79. 



mammoth, 79. 



operation of, 81, 82. 



place to operate, 80. 



selecting, 79. 



types of, 78. 

 Indian Runner ducks, 244. 

 Infertile eggs, 87. 



for market, 280. 

 Inquiries answered, 332. 

 Interior fixtures, 144. 

 Intestinal worms, 170. 

 Inventory— yearly, 328. 

 Iodine, tincture of, 165, 166. 



Johnnycake, 109. 

 Jungle fowl, 22. 

 Junior clubs — 



advantages of, 305. 



constitution and by-laws of, 

 308. 



exhibits, 311. 



meetings of, 311. 



object of organizing, 305. 



organization of, 306. 



plans for starting work, 308. 



record, 330. 



rules for, 307. 



Kaffir corn, 109, 112, 201. 



Keel bone, 230. 



Kerosene oil, 174, 177, 183. 



Killing- 

 capons, 195. 

 methods of, 297. 

 squabs, 296. 



Labor, 130. 



Lamp, care of in incubator, 84. 

 Land plaster, 301. 

 Langshan — 



as capons, 187. 



description of, 34. 



standard weights of, 34. 



varieties of, 34. 

 Lavender guinea, 249. 

 Layers, characteristics of, 232. 

 "Leakers" (eggs), 286. 

 Leghorn — 



as capon, 187. 



characteristics of, 31. 



standard weights of, 81. 



varieties of, 30, 31. 

 Leg banding, 95, 223. 

 Legs and toes of breeders, 58. 



disqualifications of, 262. 

 Lice, 150, 178. 



and mites on breeders, 63. 



head, on chickens, 93, 180. 

 Lights — 



artificial, 217. 



effect on egg production, 217, 



Idnd of to use, 219. 

 Limberneok, 164. 

 Lime, 301. 

 Limewater for preserving eggs, 



123. 

 Line breeding, 48. 

 Linseed oil, 174. 

 Litter, 117, 301. 



feeding in, 213, 214. 



for brooders, 94. 

 Location of houses, 132. 

 "Loss off" plan of marketing 



eggs, 287. 

 Louse powder, 179. 

 Lumber as building material, 



133, 134. 



Maltese pigeons, 253. 

 Mammoth incubator, 79. 

 Management — 

 busmess, 320. 



