INDEX 



441 



Common sense, parting with, 426. 

 Competence, and "System" state- 

 ments, 425. 

 Competency, of counsel, 421. 

 Competition : 



national, at Missouri Station, 290. 



North American, 299. 

 Competitions, Australian, 290-296 ; 



very valuable, 232, 

 Concrete, proportions for, 163. 

 Condition : 



counts, 302. 



robust, gives resistant power, 333-' 

 Confinement, raising breeders in, 11. 

 Contagion, the great disease spreader, 



106, no. 

 Contests, laying, adverse criticism of, 



289. 

 Coop: 



brood, general construction of, 174. 



.weaning, construction of, 173. 



wire netted, 172, 173. 

 Coops : 



furnishing, by dealers, 392. 



too small, 41, 172. 



weaning, for layers, 158. 

 Cornell, seeking touch with farmers, 



402. 

 Cornell winter course, 270. 

 .Cost : 



increasing, 223. 



initial, reducing, 240. 



of production, 222. 



productive, varies widely, 224. 



purposed, of your eggs, 237. 



var>dng, per dozen eggs, 237. 

 Cottonseed meal, safe and unsafe, 



88. 

 Counsel, the chicks', 66. 

 Courses, poultry, summary of, 279. 

 Creatures, feelings and rights of, 3- 

 Crowding : . 



evil of, 202. 



fatal, 71, 72- 



land, 215. 

 Cruelty to sitters, 170. 

 Crusher, for crockery, 410. 

 Culling, weak-kneed, source of loss, 



216. 

 Cuts, in judging, 257. 



D 



Dampness : 



encourages fungus, 60. 



fatal efTects of, 149. 

 Data, full, honest, 207. 

 Defects, balancing, 190, 

 Defense of lower creatures, 5. 

 Deficits from town flocks, 239. 

 "Dehorning," by Mendel's law, 195. 

 Detraction, causes of, 208, 209. 

 Development controlled by tempera- 

 ture, 59. 

 Diarrhoea, white: 



"an incubator disease," 129. 



avoiding, 52. 



cause of, 73. 



dreaded scourge, 13. 



experiment with, 122. 



from machines, 53. 



incipient in egg, 13- 



incredible losses from, 112. 



investigation of, in Conn., 112. 



preventive treatment for, iii. 



virulence of, 122. 

 Directions, careful following of, essen- 

 tial, 120. 

 Disadvantages, adding together, 36. 

 Disease : 



in poultry, man the source of, 103. 



of bowels, a matter of temperature, 

 130. 



problem, the, 103. 



problem, how to bury, 104. 

 Diseases : 



from incomplete digestion, no. 



how induced, 126. 



poultry, in three classes, 52. 



the commonest, 125. 

 Disinfectants: 



for head and throat troubles, 127. 



intestinal, 126. 



various ways of using no. 

 Disinfection : 



internal, doses for, 126. 



of common sense, 65. 



to ward off contagion, iio„ 

 Dissection : 



a reliable aid, 357. 



partial, for diagnosis, 362. 

 Doctor, startled by reoort, 119, 



