ILLUSTRATIONS 



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256. Outer shell membrane of fresh egg 393 



257. Inner shell membrane of fresh egg , 394 



258. Sectional view of egg , 39" 



259. Yellow yolk of fresh egg 397 



260. White yolk of fresh egg 39° 



261. Class in candling and grading eggs 'l-Oi 



262. Changes affecting the appearance of eggs 403 



263. Eggs during period of incubation 4^5 



264. Fertile and infertile eggs 4°? 



265. Vegetable cellar for storing eggs 4°° 



266. Gravity test for telling age of eggs 409 



267. Freight car for shipping live poultry 4' i 



268. A full house 414 



269. Refrigerator car loaded with poultry 4^5 



270. Candling eggs at farmer's gate 4^9 



271. Stolen nest in tree 4^0 



272. Other stolen nests 422 



273. Typical forms of egg breakage 4^4 



274. Grading and packing eggs 427 



275. Well-equipped feeding plant 428 



276. Interior of a feeding plant 430 



277. Metal chilling racks 432 



278. Bench killing and picking 434 



279. California type of laying house 437 



280. Elevated laying houses 439 



281. Preparing water glass 440 



282. Receptacles for preserving eggs 441 



283. Examining eggs by means of candler '\ ^'> 



284. Arrangement of houses and runs 443 



285. Indiana poultry house 446 



286. Metal chilling racks for hanging poultry 448 



287. Small fattening station 450 



288. Removing small feathers from poultry 453 



289. String killing and picking 454 



290. Holding birds on lap while picking 455 



291. Glossary chart of the sections of a fowl • 458 



292. Catching coop for fowls 459 



293. Well-arranged poultry exhibit 462 



294. Prize-winning Black Langshan 465 



295. Skeleton of a fowl 468 



296. Commercial feeding station 469 



297. Open-front poultry house 4-2 



298. Pen of Pekin ducks 4-4 



299. Good type of feeder 4-6 



300. Indifferent type of feeder 4-- 



301. Poor feeder 475 



302. Ducks require low fences 481 



303. Household scales for weighing poultry 484 



304. Brooder house with covered front platform 487 



305. Promising looking flock of Leghorn pullets 489 



306. Ducks raised near water 492 



307. Feed hopper on raised platform 496 



308. Colony houses grouped in winter 498 



