INDEX 



361 



Management, (continued) 



of breeders, 63. 



of Rowing stock, 118. 



of sitting hen, 77. 

 Mangel beets, 115, 203. 

 Manure — 



amount per bird per year, 300. 



analysis of, 301. 



fertilizer value of, 301. 



value of, 300. 

 Market classification for broilers, 



290. 



for grades of eggs, 283. 

 Marketing — 



case count method of, 287. 



co-operative, 317. 



ducks, 295. 



frequency of, 287. 



geese, 296. 



guineas, 296. 



unportance of, 278. 



"loss off" methods of, 287. 



methods of, 278, 287. 



of broilers, 290. 



of capons, 293. 



of eggs, 280, 287. 



of hens, 292. 



of table fowls, 290. 



of turkeys, 294, 295. 



of squabs, 296. 

 Mash- 

 dry, for growing stock, 113. 



feeding, 213. 



feeds, 201. 



for fattening, 291, 293, 295. 



for growing chicks, 110. 



hopper, 110, 113, 214. 



wet, 110, 214. 

 Mate, time to, 61. 

 Mating and breeding, 45. 

 Matings — 



double, 60. 



flock or mass, 61. 



kinds of, 60. 



single, 60. 



size of, 62. 



stud, 61. 

 Meat breeds of ducks, 240. 

 Meat class — 



breeds of, 33. 



characteristics of, 34. 



Meat scrap, 110, 201, 202, 212, 



291. 



for breeders, 64. 



importance of, 202. 

 Mediterranean class, 30. 

 Meetings of community breed- 

 ing clubs, 316. 



junior clubs, 311. 

 Membrane of egg, 67. 

 Mercurial ointment, 180. 

 Middlings, 110, 201, 212, 291, 



293, 295. 

 Mill feeds, 201. 

 Milk- 

 butter, 291, 293. 



skim, 202, 291, 293. 



sour, for chickens, 109, 111, 

 11.3. 



whole, 113. 

 Minorca — 



character'" itics of, 32. 



standard weights of, 32. 



varieties of, 31. 

 Miscellaneous class, 41. 



varieties of, 42. 

 Mites, 176. 



Harvest, 183. 

 Moisture during incubation, 85. 



type of incubator, 78. 

 Molt as influencing production, 



74, 226. 



feeding during the, 215. 

 Mondaine pigeons, 253. 

 Mongrels, breeding from, 50. 



vs. standard-bred fowls, 25. 

 Monthly statement sheet, 322. 

 Muscovy duck, 242. 

 Mutations, or sports, 46. 



Narragansett turkey, 236. 

 Neck of breeders, 57. 

 Nest eggs, 76. 

 Nests — ■ 



for sitting hens, 76. 



material for, 76. 



proper number of, 149, 281. 



trap, 149. 

 Nitrogen-free extract, 206, 207. 

 Nitrogenous material, 206. 

 Nomenclature of the fowl, 51, 



52. 

 Non-moisture type incubator, 



78. 



