INDEX 



575 



Composition of eggs, 256 

 Concrete floors, 119 

 Condiments, 221 

 Conditioning show birds, 460 

 Contagious diseases, 471 

 Coolcer, feed, 183 

 Cooling eggs, 254 

 Coop, broody hen, 141 

 Corn-and-cob-meal, 211 

 Corn feed, 197 



meal, 210 

 Cornell rations, 196 

 Cornish fowls, 75 

 Cottonseed meal, 212 

 Cow peas, 201 

 Cracked peas, 223 

 Cramming, 350 

 Crate fattening, 350 

 Cremating dead fowls, 338 

 Crested fowls, 70 

 Crevecoeurs, 37, 69 

 Crop bound, 480, 486 



location and function, 486 

 Cross-breeding, 374 

 Crowding chicks, 326 

 Crows, 325 

 Crude fiber, 191 



oil, 514 

 Curtain frames, 124 

 Custom hatching, 270 

 Cutter, bone, 181 



hay, 182 



vegetable, 182 



D 



Dampness, effects of, 117 



Dark Brahmas, 48 



Day-old chicks, 270 



advantages tO'beginners, 275 

 appeal to farmers, 280 

 custom hatching, 270 

 development of industry, 



270 

 few complaints, 281 

 guarantees, 282 

 hatcheries, 272 

 mortality, 279 

 objections to, 280 

 origin of industry, 271 

 pet shop trade, 279 

 shipping methods, 277 

 specialization, 274 



Depluming mites, 483 



Design of houses, 109 

 Destroying dead bodies, 333 

 Detention coop, 473 

 Devices for doors and gates, 153 

 Diagnosis of disease, 471 

 Diarrhea, 480, 502 

 Diet, controlling, 208 

 Digestible nutrients, 184 

 Digestive organs, 392 

 Dirt floor, 118 

 Diseases, 471 

 Disinfectants, 476, 516 

 dislocation, killing by, 547 

 Doctoring poultry, 471 

 Dominiques, 61 

 Doors, 125 



checks for, 160 



devices for, 153 



early-rising, 155 



rat-proof, 158 



securing stake for, 163 



self-closing, 160 

 Dorkings, 67 

 Double matings, 41 

 Double-yolk eggs, 391 

 Drainage, III 

 Dressing poultry, 354 

 Dried blood meal, 217 

 Drinking vessels, 144 

 Drones, 96 



Dropping-boards, 134 

 Droppings, care of, 445 

 Dry mash feeding, 206 

 Dry-picking poultry, 354 

 Dual-purpose breeds, 53 

 Dubbing game birds, 73 

 Ducks, breeding of, 519 

 Dust bath, 143 

 Dusting sitting hens, 291 



E 



Early-rising door, 155 

 Economic factors, 16 

 Educational exhibitions, 457 

 Egg, bloom of, 395 



bound, 394 



breeds, 23 



cells, 339, 390 



determination of shape, 395 



development, 266, 390 



diagram of, sectional, 396 



eating habit, 481 



evaporation, 269 



