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INDEX 



Bumble foot, 313 



Business, of poultry keeping, 332 



principles of, 337 



securing of, 336 

 By-products, 225, 280 



Campine, 55 

 Canker, 310 

 Capons, 277 



Carbohydrate feeds, 226 

 Carbohydrates, in feeds, 214 



for flesh production, 265 

 Care of chicks, 118 

 Cartons for eggs, 285 

 Chicken pox, 310 

 Chicks, care of, after hatching, 118 



development of, 108 



feeding young, 138 



protection from Hoe, 119 



putting in the brooder, 137 



rations for, 244 



weaning, 120, 140 

 Cholera, 315 



Choosing a poultry farm, 151 

 Circulation, 153 

 City lot poultry house, 207 

 Class, definition of, 37 

 Classification of birds, 19 

 Clean feed, 306 



houses, 302 



yards, 305 

 Cleaning, method of, 303 



old houses, 171 

 Cloaca, 99 



Clubs, Boys' and Girls', 8 

 Cochin, 64 

 Colony brooder, 134 



house material for, 146 

 plans for, 147 



houses for young chicks, 145 

 Column system of keeping records, 



335 

 Commercial fattening, 270 



value, 82 

 Communication, 152 

 Community centers, schools as, 11 

 Composition, of bird's body, 211 



of feeds, 213 

 Consumer, 294 

 Cooking eggs, 100 

 Coohng, eggs in incubator, 128 



plucked poultry, 289 



Corn, home-grown, 226, 234 

 Corner stones for success, 12 

 Cornish fowl, 66 

 Correlation, 87 

 Cottonseed meal, 226 

 Cramming, 269 

 Crate fattening, 268 

 Crop rotations for yards, 156 

 Crops, for green feed, 238 



necessary to the poultryman, 

 239 

 Cross-bred birds, definition, 42 

 Crows, 321 



Depluming mites, 319 



Development of chick, 108 



Diarrhoea, 312 



Diary, 332 



Digestible nutrients in feeds, 355 



Digestion, definition, 218 



work of, 219 

 Digestive organs, 221 



tract, 219 

 Diseases, 308 



classification of, 309 



of the liver, 312 

 Disinfection, methods of, 304 

 Disposition, of egg breeds, 49 



of general purpose breeds, 69 



of meat breeds, 59 

 Distribution of poultry products, 



294 

 Distributor, 294 

 Domestic fowl, 34 

 Dorking, 74 

 Drainage, 152 

 Dressed poultry, 286 



score card, 351 

 Dropping boards, 173 



platform, 189 

 Droppings, care of, 302 

 Dry fodders, 236 



mash, for laying hens, 257 



picking, 289 

 Dryness in ])oultry houses, 163 

 Ducks, 20 

 Dust boxes, 195 

 Dwarf Essex rape, 239 



Economy, in housing, 167 

 in remodelling, 171 

 I Egg breeds, 39, 48 



