INDEX 



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Undercolor, 530 



Uniformity in judging, 573 



Upham. D. A., originator of the Barred 

 Plymouth Rock, 398 



Utility values, recognition of, in judg- 

 ing Standard poultry, 574 



V comb. See Comb 



Values, in exhibition poultry, 577 ; of 

 poultry in the United States, 25 



Variability of egg yields, 298 



Variation, beginning of, 461 ; sex, regu- 

 lator of, 461 



Vegetables in mashes, 216 



Vent, the posterior orifice 



Vent gleet, a venereal disease of poul- 

 try, causing inflammation of the 

 cloaca and adjacent parts 



Ventilation, affected by situation, 77 ; 

 effect on egg production, 295 ; in 

 incubation, 259; measuring, 262; in 

 tight houses, 1 1 1 



Vigor, importance of, 209 



Vitality, effect of laying on, 494 ; pres- 

 ervation of, in young poultry, 267 ; 

 relation of, to fertility, 240 ; relation 

 of, to reproduction, 464 



Vulture hock, a hock having stiff feath- 

 ers extending beyond it, as in a vulture 



Walks, raised, illustrated, 125 

 Walls of poultry structures, 125 

 Warm open-front houses, 114 

 Warm water and frostbite, 341 

 Warmth, in poultry-house construction, 



128 ; for young poultry, 276 

 Washing exhibition birds, 559, 563 

 Waterfowl, natural feeding habits of , 1 77 

 Wattle, one of the two pendent folds of 



skin at the side of the throat of a 



fowl ; also the loose carunculated 



single fold of skin under the throat 



of a turkey 

 Weaklings, elimination of, 260 

 Weaning young poultry, time for, 275 

 Weather, effect of, on shipments of 



fancy poultry and eggs, 585 

 Weber Brothers' rations for ducks, 236 

 Weight, of eggs, 327 ; poultry sold by, 



322 

 West Virginia Experiment Station, 



poultry house at, illustrated, 141 

 West Virginia Experiment Station 



ration, 229 

 Wheat, feeding value of, 182 

 Whey, 201 



Whiptail, a small, closely folded tail 

 Whiskers, muffs 



Whitecomb, applied to favus when it 

 affects the comb 



White diarrhea, properly, the disease 

 caused by the infection of new- 

 hatched chickens with bacterium piil- 

 lorum. Erroneously applied to many 

 cases of common diarrhea in which 

 the discharges are at first whitish 



White of egg, 238 



White eggs, 326 



White fowls, mating. 525 



White-red color pattern, 361 



Whitewash, use of, 129 



Willow, willow-colored, greenish yel- 

 low; applied in describing the color 

 of the shanks 



Wing parts : wing bar, the bar across 

 the folded wing, formed by the cov- 

 erts ; wing bay, the triangular surface 

 of the secondaries of the folded 

 wing ; wing bow, the upper part of 

 the wing, covered with small, soft 

 feathers ; wing coverts, the small 

 feathers which conceal the quills of 

 the flight feathers 



Winnebagos, 408 



AVire fencing, 98 



Wisconsin .Agricultural College, poul- 

 try houses at, illustrated, 81, 117, 145 



Wood, use of, in construction of poul- 

 try houses, 126 



Worms, 341 



Wringingtheneck,killingpoultryby,3i2 



AVry tail, a tail turning permanently to 

 one side 



Wyandottes, 406 ; compared with other 

 fowls of their class, 420 ; varieties of : 

 Black, illustrated, 410; Buff, illus- 

 trated, 410; Columbian, 412; illus- 

 trated, 412, 520; Golden-Laced, 408; 

 illustrated, 407 ; Partridge, 41 1 ; illus- 

 trated, 512; Silver- Laced, 406 ; illus- 

 trated, 406, 516; Silver-Penciled, 41 2 ; 

 illustrated, 411, 515; White, 409; il- 

 lustrated, 40S, 501-502 



Yard, area of, 97 ; use of. 95 



Yard, breeding, a male mated with a 

 large number of females. In buying 

 and selling fowls for breedin;;- pur- 

 poses the regulation number of 

 females in a breeding yard is eight, — 

 twice the number in a pen. Exhibi- 

 tion yard, a male with more than 

 four females, — also called a display. 

 It is not customary for yards or dis- 

 plays to compete for prizes 



Yolk of egg. 23S 



