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POULTRY CULTURE 



Standard-size poultry-house unit, 119 



Standard style of exhibition coop, 551 



Station, good pose, height, and reach 



Steam power, effect of the development 

 of, on the poultry industry, 13 



Steaming to remove feathers, 315 



Sterility and extreme heavy laying, 494 



Stern, the posterior part of the body ; 

 used especially in descriptions of 

 Games in which, because of the short- 

 ness of the plumage, the outlines are 

 more discernible than in long-feath- 

 ered birds 



Sticking poultry, 312 ; illustrated, 313 



Stippled, evenly marked with fine dots 



Stone poultry houses, illustrated, 102 



Strain, a family having estabhshed race 

 character distinguishing it from other 

 stock of the same variety 



Straw for litter, 209 



Strawberry comb. See Comb 



Striped, marked lengthwise with a long 

 central stripe. See Laced 



Sugar beets, igS 



Sultans, 425 



Sumatras, Black, illustrated, 533 



Sunflower seed, 194 



Sunlight, in houses, 104 ; importance of, 

 77 ; testing eggs by, 249 



Supply and demand, 62 



Surrey fowl. See Sussex fowls 



Sussex fowls, 378, 420 



Swans, 45S ; rations for, 237 



Sweepstakes prizes, 548 



Symmetry, defined, 572 



Symptoms of disease, 337 



System, definition of, 79 ; in natural in- 

 cubation, 243 



Systems of mating, 491 ; of selection, 4S1 



Table poultry, finishing, 301; mating 



for, 495; shape in, 499 

 Tail, the tail feathers, — main tail and 



coverts 

 Tailless fowls, 425 



Tapeworm, an intestinal parasite, 341 

 Tassel, a small crest, especially applied 



to Game fowls 

 Telegony, 490 

 Temperature, for brooding, 275, 2S0; 



of broody hens, 250; for incubation, 



241 ; for keeping eggs for hatching, 



245 ; of poultry houses. 104, 116 

 Tent coop, evolution of, illustrated, 105 

 Testers, egg, 171 

 Testing eggs, 248, 259 

 Thigh, the drumstick, the first fleshy 



joint of the leg of a bird 



Thoroughbred, having type and breed 

 or variety characters well established 

 and of high quality 



Thumb mark, a bulge in a single comb 

 immediately over the beak, as if 

 pressed out of shape with the thumb 



Tick, a speck of foreign color ; also, a 

 rudimentary stripe 



Ties in judging, 573 



Tight houses, 108 



Tillinghast house, illustrated, 115 



Tolman house, illustrated, 115 



Tomatoes, 19S 



Tom turkey, a turkey cock 



Topknot, a crest 



Training birds for exhibition, 562 



Transmission, of characters, 463 ; of 

 prepotency, 466 



Transportation, 78 



Trio, a male and two females ; applied 

 to birds selected for exhibition or 

 for breeding 



Troughs, feed, 163 



Tuck, to draw up ; applied to the car- 

 riage of the wing, which in repose 

 should be closely folded, with points 

 tucked well into the body feathers at 

 the rear 



Turkeys, effects of foul ground on, 274; 

 fattening, 305; growing, 58; nests for, 

 247; rations for, 234; roosting habits 

 of, 1 30 ; varieties of : Buff or Red, 434 ; 

 Black, 432 ; illustrated, 58 ; Bronze, 

 430 ; illustrated, 58, 430, 434 ; Narra- 

 gansett, 431; illustrated, 432; Slate, 

 434 ; White, 433 ; illustrated, 58, 433 ; 

 AVild, 430 



Turning eggs in incubation, 25S 



Twisted comb, a single comb that is 

 straight at the base but wrinkled at 

 the margin, making the serrations 

 point in different directions 



Twisted feather, a feather (usually a 

 primary) having the quill so turned 

 in the skin (or flesh) that it does not 

 take its natural position. As a rule, 

 the feather is straight but turned in 

 its place 



Type, definition of, 69 ; development of 

 American, 16; egg, 472 ; of original 

 fowl, 344; regression ifrom, 475 



Types, deformed, 424 ; of domestic 

 fowl, 346 ; European meat, 376; gen- 

 eral-purpose, 394 ; laying, 352 ; primi- 

 tive-crested, 375; relations of. to 

 conditions and methods, 66 



Typhoid, fowl, analogous to typhoid in 

 human beings, 339 



