INDEX 



443 



Exercise : 



for fowls, how to encourage, io8. 



Jor something, 232. 



in brooder, 69. 



its many benefits, 178. 



patent feeders may promote, 108 

 Expenses, keeping down, 218. 

 Experience : 



expensive, saving, 37. 



items from, 135. 



Facts, two vital, 94. 

 Failure ; 



assuring, 34. 



in incubation, reasons for, 56. 

 Failures, beginners furnish, 19. 

 Faking, defined in Standard, 256. 

 Fanciers, honest, 367. 

 Fancy, combining with utihty, 181. 

 Farmer, poultrymen dependent on, 



119. 

 Farmers, goose, 326. 

 Farming, ostrich, 354. 

 Farms : 



egg, branch, 236, 



ostrich, 354. 



poultry raising, some five million, 

 28s. 

 Fatalities, cause of, 202. 

 Faults of brooders, 226. 

 Feathers : 



and egg production, 397. 



deceptive, 182. 



decorate birds, 397. 



for fishing tackle, 394. 



heavy, reduce laying, 397. 



ideal coat of, 397- 



Indian Runner Duck, 394. 



in millinery, 394. 



marketing, 384. 



nitrogen and lime content of, 400. 



structure of, 393. 



substitute, 394. 

 Feed : 



changing, 75. 



cheap, 80. 



chick, poor, 231. 



cooked, 78. 



egg-producing, 80. 



for pigeons, fouled by excreta, 143. 



green, growing for fowls, g8 ; in 

 yards, 96. 



juicy, imperative, 95. 



prepared, advantages of, 231, 



proportions of, proper, 85. 



Sanborn, practice and estimate, 231. 



simple, for ducklings, 318. 



stuffs, high-fiber, 87. 



vitality-producing, 231. 

 Feeder : 



automatic, home-made, 167.- 



makeshift, 167. 

 Feeding : 



excess, 84. 



fowls, three objects thereof, 90. 



right, 75- 

 Feeds : 



balancing, 85. 



changing, 84. 



cheap, substituting, 223. 



classifying, 84. 



combining, 82. 



commercial animal, 81. 



foul, lead to disease, 121. 



green, liberal supply needed, 92. 



green, tenderness the first need, loi. 



high protein, table of, 81. 



need close examination, 121. 



too coarse, 87. 



vegetable, 79. 

 Fencing : 



consumers of, 307. 



life of, 304. 



rapidity of rusting, 305. 



wire, 304. 

 Figures prove, 200. 

 Flocks : 



farm, feed cost, 238. 



increasing the, 9. 

 Floor : 



cement, cleanest, 165. 



constructing and covering, 165. 



dirt, must be raised, 165. 

 Follow-up, 311. 

 Food, materials, table of, 91. 

 Forecast, of poultry growth, 285. 

 Foreknowledge a key, 113. 



