CONTENTS XI 



Depth of structures, Ii8 — Standard-size poultry-house unit — 

 Length of poultry houses, 119 — Styles of roof, 121 — Walls 



— Floors, 125 — Eccentric features to be avoided — Materials 

 for poultry structures, 126 — Quality of construction, 127 — Pres- 

 ervation of structures — Structures for different kinds of poultry, 

 129 — Ancient and modern coops, 131 — Coops for indoor brood- 

 ers and growing chicks, 132 — Small houses, stationary and 

 portable, 134 — Colony poultry houses, 136 — Cloth-front houses, 

 137 — Late styles of poultry houses, 141 — Long poultry houses, 

 145 — Stages in construction of a long poultry house, 148 — 

 Fattening and killing houses — Brooder houses, 149 — Cockerel 

 house, 153 — Poultry houses on hillsides, 154 



X. Poultry-House Fittings 155 



Roosts, 156 — Droppings boards, 15S — Roosting closets, 159 — 

 Nests, 160 — Feed troughs, 163 — Feed hoppers, 165 — Drinking 

 vessels — Drinking fountains, 166 — Dusting boxes — Common 

 tools, 167 — Cooking apparatus — Food mixers, 168 — Bone cut- 

 ters — Hay cutters — Root cutters, 169 — Carts for poultry work, 

 170 — Egg testers — Nest eggs — Transportation on the poultry 

 plant, 171 



XL Nutrition of Poultry 172 



Nutritive requirements — Nutritive organs, 172 — Differences in 

 beaks and crops — Natural foods and feeding habits of poultry, 

 175 — Common poultry foods — Composition of foods, 178 — 

 Nutrient ratio, 180 — Expression of nutritive values, 181 



XII. Poultry Foods . . 183 



Wheat, 183 — Wheat screenings — Low-grade flour — Middlings, 

 184 — Bran — Stale Bread — Corn, 185 — Corn meal, 186 — Corn 

 bran and corn middlings — Corn and cob meal — Hominy meal 



— Gluten meal and gluten feed — Whole oats, 187 — Oatmeal 



— Oat bran and oat feed — Oat middlings — Sprouted oats — 

 Barley, 188 — Barley screenings — Barley meal — Malt sprouts. 

 Dried brewer's grains — Rye, 189 — Mixed mill feeds, 190 — 

 Buckwheat — Buckwheat by-products — Rice, 191 — Sorghum 

 seed — Broom-corn seed — Flaxseed and cotton seed, 192 — 

 Ground linseed — Linseed meal — Cottonseed by-products, 193 

 Peas and beans — Miscellaneous seeds, 194 — Green foods, 195 

 • — Ensilage — Clovers and alfalfa, 196 — Clover meal and alfalfa 

 meal — Potatoes, 197 — Beets — Turnips — Onions, 198 — Apples 



— Green bones — Meat by-products, 199 — Fresh fish, 200 — Fish 

 scrap — Shellfish — Milk, 201 — Cheese — Milk albumin — 

 Eggs, 202 — Mineral foods, 203 — Dry bone — ■ Oyster shells, 204 



— Charcoal, 205 



