INDEX 



599 



Cabbage, 195 



Campines, 370 ; illustrated, 371 



Candling, testing eggs before a light 

 to determine their fitness for food 

 purposes 



Canker, a term applied indiscriminately 

 to catarrhal ulcers, cheesy mucus 

 deposits, diphtheritic patches, or any 

 whitish or yellowish matter appear- 

 ing about the eyes, nostrils, or mouth, 

 or in the mouth or throat of a bird 



Cap, caplike dark markings on the 

 head, as in Indian Runner Ducks 



Cape, in fowls of the ermine color 

 pattern the semicircular patch of 

 black-and-white feathers between 

 the shoulders, concealed by the long 

 hackle feathers when the bird stands 

 erect 



Capital, relation of, to operations, 27 



Caponizing, 309 



Car and track for distributing food, 

 illustrated, 50 



Carbohydrates, 179 



Carts for poultry work, 37, 38, 56, 170 



Case count, count by the case, without 

 inspection, grading, and deduction 

 for inferior and bad eggs. See Loss-off 



Castilian fowls, 363 



Catarrh, 340 



Cats, exhibits of, at poultry shows, 550 ; 

 protection of poultry from, 274, 282 



Causes of disease, 338 



Census of 1840, poultry statistics in, 24 



Center, in descriptions of plumage, the 

 open ground of a single-laced feather 



Change, effect of, on egg production, 

 295 



Characters, balancing of, in breeding, 

 484; correlation of, 471; essential, 

 482 ; latent, 467 ; present, 467 ; rela- 

 tive value of, in breeding, 483 ; sub- 

 stantial, 482 ; superficial, 483 



Chvcoal, 203 



Check, the trade term for a cracked 

 egg not leaking 



Cheek, the side of the head, particu- 

 larly of a plain-feathered head, as in 

 ducks and geese 



Cheese, 201 



Chick, development of the, in incuba- 

 tion, illustrated, 261 ; helping, out of 

 shell, 252 



Chicken, a young land bird of either 

 sex ; applied mostly when the sex 

 cannot be distinguished or is imma- 

 terial 



Chicken corn, 195 



Chicken pox, a skin disease of the 

 head characterized by ulcerous warts, 



340 



Chilled eggs, 130, 250 



China, importations of fowls from, 14 



China Geese, Brown, 456; illustrated, 

 454; White, 456; illustrated, 453 



Chinese corn, 195 



Chinese poultry, supposed origin of, 12 



Chittagong, 391 



Cholera, the common name for virulent 

 hot-weather diseases. True fowl 

 cholera is very rare in America. 

 Fowl typhoid, infectious leucaemia, 

 and bacterial enteritis are the dis- 

 eases usually given the name of 

 cholera, 339 



Chop, corn, 186 



Cinnamon Cochins, 3S7 



Circulars for fancy trade, 581 



Cities, relation of, to poultry produc- 

 tion, 78 



Clams, 200 



Classification, economic, of fowls, 70 ; 

 geographic, of fowls, 346 ; of poultry 

 at exhibitions, 542 



Clay soils, 76 



Cleaning eggs, 324 



Clean-legged, not feathered on shanks 

 and feet 



Cleanliness in incubation, 248 ; relation 

 of, to egg production, 297 



Climate, relation of, to poultry keep- 

 ing. 74 



Close breeding, 484 



Close-heeled, standing straight, with 

 heels close together ; opposed to 

 knock-kneed 



Closets, roosting, 159 



Cloth, cotton, in poultry houses, 127 



Cloth shades for chicks, 270 



Clovers, 196 



Clubby, opposite of reachy. See Reach 



Cochin China, 391 



Cochins, 3S7 ; Buff, illustrated, 3S8, 

 529 ; Partridge, illustrated, 497 ; 

 White, illustrated, 498 



Cock, an adult male fowl ; in exhibition 

 classification, a male one year old 

 or over. Compounds : turkey cock, 

 guinea cock, cock pheasant 



Cockerel, a young cock ; in exhibition 

 classification, a male under a year old 



Cockerel house, 153 



Cold brooders, 277 



Cold houses, 114 



Colds, 340 



Cold storage, 62 



