TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Common Sense Poultry Houses 9 



What Variety to Choose 18 



Eggs for Breeding 27 



Eggs for Market • 30 



Sprouting Oats 34 



Feeding Problem 35 



Sample Rations 43 



Feeding Alfalfa 47 



Breeding-in-line 49 



When to Hatch 56 



Fertile Eggs 60 



Testing Eggs for Incubation 62 



Natural Incubation 65 



Artificial Incubation 70 



Care of Brooder Chicks 75 



Fireless Brooder 80 



White Diarrhoea in Brooder Chicks 82 



Vigor 84 



One-Day-Old Chick Trade 88 



Broiler Ranches 93 



Summer Work 90 



Trap-Nest 94 



Grit and Gizzard 98 



Pests of Poultry Yard 101 



Diseases of Poultry (Roup) 104 



Town ' Lot Fowl s :. _ 108 



Moulting Season 1 1 1 



Value of Economy 1 1 5 



Preserving Eggs 119 



Capons 122 



Turkeys and How to Raise Them 126 



Ducks and Their Varieties - 139 



Geese 149 



Pheasants 152 



Guinea Fowl 153 



Canaries 155 



Basley Formulas 159 



Questions and Answers 161 



Cause and Cure of Sickness 162 



Lice, Mites, Ticks and Worms 180 



Feeding in General 185 



Egg Question 191 



Hatching with Incubator and Hen 194 



Yard Room 199 



Mating and Breeding 200 



Miscellaneous Questions 201 



Turkey Questions 206 



About Ducks and Geese 211 



