INDEX 



60 " 



Financing a show, 539 



Finishing table poultry, 301 



Fireless brooders, 277 



Fish, fresh, 200 



Fish netting as a substitute for wire 



netting, 557 

 Fish scraps, 200 

 Fishtail comb, a single comb that 



splits at the rear 

 Flax meal, 193 

 Flaxseed, 192 

 Flesh of poultry, composition of the, 



172; relation of color of, to quality, 



497 



Flights, the functional feathers of the 

 wing, primaries and secondaries 



Floats, the trade name for eggs in 

 which the embryo has started and, 

 in candling, appears before the light 

 as a floating spot 



Flock, size of a, 84, 273 



Floor dimensions, Ii6 



Floor levels, 125 



Floor materials, 127 



Flour, low-grade, 184; in mashes, 216; 

 rice, 192 



Fluff, downy plumage ; applied to the 

 downy web at the quill end of a typi- 

 cal feather, and also to the feathers 

 of the abdomen of a gallinaceous 

 bird, which are all fluffy and collec- 

 tively are called the fluff 



Fluke, a species of intestinal worm 



Folding coop, illustrated, 107 



Food requirements of poultry, 172 



Foods, common, 178; mineral, 203; 

 natural, 175; proprietary, 2 1 o 



Forcing, 212 



Foreign color, in color varieties, any 

 color not required in the established 

 pattern ; false color ; foul color 



Foundation stock, 67 



Fowl, definition, 5 ; original type of, 344 



Fowls, economic classification of, 70; 

 height of fence for, 96 ; style of 

 packing for export of, 321 ; when 

 to market, 304 



French and Belgian meat types, 380 



French Cuckoo, 382 



Fresh-air movement, 112; principal 

 requirement in houses, 104 



Friesland fowls, 372 



Frizzles, 425 



Frostbites, 341 



Frosting, irregular and objectionable 

 edgings or tracings of white or light 

 color on black or dark ground color 



Fryer, 303 



Fuel values of foods, 180 

 Full-blood, purebred 

 Furnished, having male characters fully 

 developed 



Gallinaceous birds, feeding habits of, 



17s 



Galhis Bankwa, 344 

 . Gallon's law, 468 



Game fowls, 347 



Gander, a male goose 



Gapes, a disease in which the charac- 

 teristic symptom is gaping, caused 

 by gapeworms obstructing the wind- 

 pipe 



Gastritis, acute indigestion 



Gates, 106 



Geese, nests for, 247 ; rations for, 237 ; 

 varieties: African, 456; illustrated, 

 455; China, 456; illustrated, 453-454; 

 common, 449; Egyptian, 458; Emden, 

 451; illustrated, 450; Pomeranian, 

 450; Roman, 449; Sebastopol, 458; 

 Toulouse, 452; illustrated, 451 ; AYild, 

 457 ; illustrated, 452 



Geese, fattening, as a business, 55 



General-purpose type, description of 

 the, 71 ; Continental European, 423 



Germ, of an egg, 238 ; relations of 

 body and, 459 ; vitality of a, 249 



Gills, the wattles 



Gizzard, note on, 174 



Glass in poultry houses, 127 



Gluten products, 187 



Going light, becoming emaciated with- 

 out pronounced symptoms of disease 



Goose, the common name of the goose 

 species ; especially applied to the 

 female 



Goose growing, 54 ; features of, illus- 

 trated, 56 



Gosling, a young goose 



Goslings, growth of, illustrated, 2S5 ; 

 rations for, 237 



Grade, strictly, a bird having one pure- 

 bred parent and one of mixed blood, 

 but the term is usually applied to a 

 bird having one parent line (usually 

 the male line) purebred and the other 

 of mixed blood 



Grading, dressed poultry, 320 ; live 

 poultry for market, 324 



Grapes, 198 



Grass clippings, 195 



Gray eggs, 326 



Green bone, 203 



Green ducks, 304 



Green food, 213 



