576 



INDEX 



Egg, fertility, 259, 399 



shell membrane, 395 

 shell texture, 396 

 shrinkage, 419 

 storage places, 408 

 testing, 263 

 trade terms, 424 

 wastage, 409 



Eggs, abnormalities in, 402 

 blood clots in, 404 

 bloody, 404 

 body-held, 393 

 breakage of, 412 

 cabinet for hatching, 260 

 chalaza, 395 

 club plan of selling, 435 

 cold storage, 436 

 composition of, 186, 256, 401 

 construction of, 263 

 cooling hatching, 254 

 double-yolk, 391 

 embryology of, 263, 390 

 external influences on, 407 

 farm losses in, 421 

 freshness of hatching, 261 

 general store, 421 

 gravity test of, 409 

 heat losses in, 419 

 ideal type of, 259 

 infertile, ^20 

 life germ m, 265 

 market grades of, 416 

 marketing practices, 400 

 middleman's charges, 426 

 ovary, 391 

 ovisac, 391 



parcel post trade in, 433 

 prices on, 423 

 private trade in, 433 

 popular fallacies concerning, 



264 

 preserving, 436 

 prolific power, 390 

 retailing troubles in, 428 

 selecting hatching, 256 

 signs of life in, 266 

 sterile hens, 390 

 tester, electric, 265 

 testers for, 268 

 turning hatching, 252 

 unscrupulous methods, 431 

 vitelline membrane, 397 

 vitellus, 398 

 water glass treatment of, 436 



Egyptian geese, 532 

 Elements for success, 88 

 Eraden geese, 529 

 English breeds, 61 

 Enteritis, 481 

 Enterohepatitis, 478 

 Epsom salts, 474 

 Equipping poultry houses, 144 

 Exhibitions, poultry, 457 

 Export trade in eggs, 6 



Fancier, 457 

 Farm poultry, 7 

 Fats, food, 189 

 Fattening crate, 352 



methods, 349 

 Faverolles, 68 

 Favus, white comb, 482 

 Feather-eating habit, 482 



pulling habit, 491 

 Feathers, by-products, 452 



drying and curing, 455 



goose, 537 



value of, 456 

 Feed, alfalfa, shredded, 222 



animal, 215 



ash, 188 



barley, 199 



beet pulp, 223 



beets, 229 



bills, 98 



bins, 179 



bran, 209 



broom corn seed, 201 



buckwheat, 200 

 bran, 212 



cabbage, 229 



carbohydrates in, 191 



charcoal, 221 



clover, 223 



composition of, 189 



condimental, 221 



cooker, 183 



corn, 197 



-and-cob meal, 211 

 meal, 210 



cottonseed meal, 212 



cow peas, 201 



cracked peas, 223 



digestibility of, 185 



dried blood, 217 



fats in, 189 



