INDEX 



449 



Shipment, preparing for, 381. 

 Shipments, for holidays, sgo. 

 Shippers, where failing, 388. 

 Shipping, on commission, 383. 

 Sitters : 



condition of, 35. 



condition of, important, 42. 



daily needs of, 45. 



good and poor, 35. 



handling, 43. 



keep quiet, 42. 



shelter for, 39. 



shelter for, movable, 40. 



with Asiatic blood, 35. 

 Size, excessive, in turkeys, a bar, 



334. 

 Soils, made bare by ranging, 98. 



unfavorable for poultry, commonly 

 used, 149. 

 Space : 



due each hen, 159. 



for roosting room only, 161. 

 Spot, weak, in Systems, 427. 

 Squirrel, carries deadly plague. 138. 

 Squirrels, ground, destroy millions' 



worth, 142. 

 Standard : 



needed in utility breeding, 30. 



of perfection, breeding without, 367. 

 Standards, separate breed, 30. 

 Start, getting a, 364. 

 Station, testing, Cornell, 2S2. 

 Stations, Experiment, interest in poul- 

 try, 152. 

 Stock, fancy, for Beginner, 364. 

 Strain, line-bred, 190. 

 Strains : 



crossing, 195. 



differences in, 294. 

 Struggle, for life, 66. 

 Students, Cornell, development of, 



272. 

 Supplies : 



choice in, 405. 



model, Cornell, 403. 



modern, 403. 



second hand, 18. 

 Supply and demand, 380. 

 Sympathy, necessary, dealing with 

 living things, 2. 

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System, chain, of egg farms, 226. 



one requirement of, 426. 



what may it teach? 115. 

 "Systems" and system, 422. 

 Systems, natural, 45, 



Table, Cornell grading, for eggs, 244. 



Temperature, low, delays hatch, 59. 



Temperatures, fatal changes in, 60. 



Tester, the easiest, 47. 



Testers, egg, cheap and otherwise, 408. 



Testing, just how, 47. 



Tests : 



practical, 232. 



pubhc, average laying in, 296. 

 Thrift, proportioned to balance of feeds, 



93. ■ 

 Trade, fanciers', exigencies of, 56. 

 Trees, fruit, in poultry yards, 101, 102. 



need all fertilizing elements, 102. 



wiring off, in poultry yards, loi. 

 Truth, a basic, 425. 

 Turkey, modern variety of, 337. 

 Turkeys : 



laying capacity of, 336. 



Red, Bourbon, 337. 



setting, 336. 



standard weights of, 334. 



varieties of, 334. 



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Unit, breeding, for geese, 328. 

 Utility, 369. 

 vs. fancy, 24. 



Value, fowl, greatest increase due to 



feathers, 401. 

 Values : 



fictitious, 380. 



of records, 208. 

 Varieties, of Leghorns identical, in 

 theory, 27. 



standard, number of, 20. 

 Vegetables, extra high protein, 87. 

 Vent, affections of, 127. 



