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INDEX 



Posts, erection of, 182 



Potatoes, 230 



Poultry, classification, 36 



definition of, 36 



distribution in the United 

 States, 324 



farm, choosing same, IS 



feeds, 224 



house, building, 177 



industry, 324 



for market, 275 



keeper and success, 12 

 Poultry keeping, advantages of, 1 



as a business, 332 

 Preparing the production, 283 

 Prepotency, 87 

 Principles, of business, 337 



of house design, 162 

 Production, from egg breeds, 51 



factors affecting, 14 



from general purpose breeds, 

 71 



from meat breeds, 61 

 Product, preparation of, 283 



variety of, 271 

 Prolapsus, 312 

 Protein, in the body, 212 



feeds, 224 



in feeds, 213 



in laying rations, 255 



when feeding for flesh, 265 

 Pullets, as a salable product, 280 

 Pure bred birds, definition, 43 



breeds, value of, 44 



Quail and grouse, 22 

 nest and eggs, 23 



Rafters, ways to construct, 181 



Rat-proof houses, 166 



Rats, 321 



Rations, for baby chicks, 139 

 for chicks, 244 

 for orate fattening, 269 

 for fattening fowls, 268 

 for finishing broilers, 266 

 for growing poultry, 247 

 for laying hens, 257 

 requirements of, 356 

 for young chicks, 148 



Rearing, object of, 142 



Records, 332 



Records, Boys' and Girls' Poultry 

 Clubs, 346 



of incubation, 129 

 Reference books, 340 

 Remodelling of house, 170, 175 

 Reproduction, 19 

 Retail markets, 295 

 Rhode Island Reds, 73 

 Roasters, kinds of, 276 

 Roasting chicken, definition, 276 



feeding of, 263 

 Roof, construction of, 185 



repairing, 172 

 Roofs, types, 199 

 Root crops, home-grown, 237 

 Rotation of crops for yards, 156 

 Round worms, 317 

 Roup, 310 

 Runners, construction of, 181 



Sanitation, 301 

 Scalding, 289 

 Scaly leg mites, 320 

 Schedule of instruction, 3 

 Score cards, 349 

 Scratch rations for layers, 259 

 Scratching shed house, 208 

 Selection of hatching eggs, 106 

 Shade for young chicks, 144 

 Shipping, dressed poultry, 290 



market eggs, 285 



methods of, 298 

 Simphcity in house, 167 

 Sitters, management of, 115 

 Sitting the hen, 114 

 Size, of egg breeds, 48 



of general purpose breeds, 68 



of meat breeds, 58 

 Skunks, 321 

 Slope, 153 



Small-flock colony laying house, 

 201 

 house, 177 

 Sonora County, Cahfornia, 326 

 Sour milk, as a feed, 256 

 Soy bean meal, 226 

 Sparrows, nest and eggs, 25 

 Special matings, importance of, 88 

 Sports, 87 



Standard classification, of breeds, 

 38 

 defined, 39 



