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INDEX 



Line-breeding, value of, igi. 

 Lion, in beginner's way, 34. 

 Literature on poultry, 355. 

 Litter: 



its provision a problem, 107. 



material, matting together, 107. 

 Liver, minced, for layers, 233. 

 Location : a small factor, 219. 



everything, 218. 

 Lore, goose, 330. 

 Loss : 



causes for, finding, 356. 



important cause of, 65. 



nineteen per cent, 297. 



of fowls, percentages of, 105. 

 Losses : 



comparative, between large and small 

 animals, 75. 



mysterious, of chicks, 113. 



none in raising, 217. 



of fowls, in competitive test, 105. 



poultry, sheep, pigs, 215. 

 Luck : 



good, 5. 



to the Beginner, 430. 

 Lungs, the chick's, 69, 70. 

 Lure, for Beginners, 379. 



M 



Machines : 



all-around good, 61. 



hot air vs. hot water, 54. 

 Man, his best care of himself, 104. 

 Markers, poultry. 409. 

 Mash, Australian, for layers, 232. 

 Mating : 



double, a hoodoo. 191. 



for customers, 190. 



rules must be learned, igi. 

 Maturity: 



average, 117. 



laying, index of, 184. 

 Measure, unit of, 185. 

 Meat: 



meals, 88. 



producing, 2$. 

 Medicines: 



cure through disinfecting, no. 



poultry, as special supplies, 405. 



Mediterraneans, 26. 

 Medium, a good selling, 370. 

 Men, business and poultry, 241. 

 Method, feeding, Sanborn, 72, 73. 

 Methods : 



business-like, 216. 



demonstrated, 356. 



of marketing, 357. 



of shipment, 381. 



vs. principles, 1 13. 

 Mice : 



annual estimated damage of, 146. 



enemies of, 145. 



plague of, demands destruction of 

 millions, 145. 

 Middleman, profits of, 244. 

 Milk, bacterial, passed as good, 121. 

 Mill : 



high fiber, 87. 



stuffs, quality for mashes, 121, 

 Miller, poultryman dependent on, 119. 

 Mills, visiting, good training, 120. 

 Minorcas, 27. 



Mites, spraying to prevent, 128. 

 Mold, in mows and stacks, 118. 

 Molds, do not yield to treatment 



easily, 117. 

 Molters, late, best layers, 398. 

 Molting, Cornell stu iies in, 397. 

 Molts, repeated, 398. 

 Money : 



in backyard fowls, 426. 



saving, 68, 172. 

 Money making, from Runner Ducks, 



316. 

 Mortality, great cause of, 297. 

 Mouse, the plague, a microtus, 145. 

 Mustards, curled, as green feed, 98. 



N 



Nest, for goose eggs, 46. 

 Nest trap: 



faults of, 206. 



surprises of, 203. 

 Nests : 



detached, lighter, 40. 



in series, 40. 



materials for, 44. 



placed vertically, 168. 



