578 



INDEX 



Green cut bone, 217 

 foods, 215 



composition of, 225 

 Grit, 234 



Growing stock, care of, 325 

 Guinea fowls, 554 



H 



Hamburgs, 35 

 Hatcheries, 272 

 Hatching, artificial, 235 



natural, under hens, 283 

 Hay cutter, 182 

 Health, fowl, 471 

 Heat losses in eggs, 419 

 Heavy-laying strain, 376 

 Hen coops, 283 



manure, 445 

 Homer pigeon, 564 

 Hominy chop, 211 

 Hook, catching, 162 

 Hoppers, mash, 144 



plana for, 151 

 Houdans, 37 

 House, appliances, poultry, 144 



brooder, 307 



cleanliness, 132 



colony plan, 11 1 



construction of, 109 



continuous, iii 



cost of, 112 



curtain frames, 124 



doors, 125 



floors, 118 



glass windows, 124 



interior, 132 



location of, 109 



nests, 138 



perches, 134 



roofs, 116 



size of, 1 14 



warmth of, 113 



windows, 124 

 Hover breaking, 310 

 Hovers, brooding, 301 

 Hybrids, 374 



I 



Icing dressed poultry, 357 

 Illness, indications of, 471 

 In-breeding, 372 

 Incubation, artificial, 235 



Incubation, care of lamp, 246 



cellar, 243 



cooling eggs, 254 



gas heater, 249 



heat control, 248 



loading trays, 251 



moisture, 238 



records of, loi 



regulating flame, 247 



selecting hatching eggs, 256 



temperature, 239 



thermometer, 240 



turning eggs, 252 

 Incubation, natural, 283 



best sitters, 288 



dusting sitters, 291 



feeding sitters, 292 



privacy, 284 



quarters for hens, 289 



sitting hens, 283 



stolen nests, 283 



testing sitters, 288 



vermin, 284 

 Incubators, erection of, 244 



leveling, need for, 241 



makes of, 236 



mammoth, 237 



oil machines, 236 

 Indian Runner ducks, 523 

 Indigestion, 482 

 Infertile eggs, 420 

 Information on breeding, 99 

 Instruments for caponizing, 363 

 Interior of buildings, 132 

 Intestinal worms, 495 

 Investment in buildings, 109 



Japanese fowls, 80 

 Javas, 60 

 Jersey Blues, 34 

 Johnny-cake, recipe for, 317 



K 



Kafir corn, 201 

 Killing methods, 354 



Labor-saving, 109 

 La Fleche fowls, 37, 69 

 Lakenvelders, 28 

 Lamp, incubator, 246 



