INDEX 



509 



Chickens, number of, 17 

 Chicks, approaches for, 231 



care of, in incubator, 223-224 

 comparative mortality of incu- 

 bator and hen hatched, 183 

 condition of feeds for, 381-382 

 depraved appetite of, 253 

 direction for feeding, 382-388 

 drinking fountains for, 416- 



417 

 early versus late hatched, 216 

 effect of chilling on, 246-247 

 first feed for, 384, 388 

 growing, standard for, 362 

 incubator-hatched, 189 

 methods of toe marking, 147 

 pedigreeing, 124—126 

 sour milk for, 347, 382 

 vices of, 253 

 winginess in, 247 

 Chinese geese, 64 

 Cholera, chicken, 485 

 Class, 53 

 Clay block floor, construction of, 



274 

 Cloaca, 319 

 Clover, cut, 342 

 uses of, 352 

 Coal-heated brooders, 242-244 

 Cochins, 61, 64 



Cold storage, cost of eggs for, 23 

 Colony brooders, 233, 239, 240, 

 243, 244 

 house, description of, 287-290 

 Combs, frozen, 486 

 Complete brooder, 232 

 Concrete floors, 274 

 Condiments, use of, 340 

 Constipation, 482 

 Constitutional vigor as affected by 

 heavy production, 

 137 

 by rate of production, 

 137 

 characteristics of, 128 

 hatching power as affected 



by, 135 

 importance of, 128, 129 

 influence upon the off- 

 spring, 129 

 inheritance of, 130 

 prepotency of, 130 

 value of, 128 

 Continental class, 62 



Continuous house, description of, 



287, 288 

 Cooling dressfed poultry, 435-436 

 Cooperative marketing associa- 

 tions, 38 

 Corn, 332-333 



meal, 340 

 Cornish, 62 



Cottonseed meal, 340-341 

 Cow peas, 333 

 Cramming machines, 420 

 Creaminess, 332 

 Creve coeur, 62 

 Crop, bound, 483 



location and use of, 314, 316 

 Cross-breeding, 127 

 Crude fiber, 323 

 Curtain front, 279 

 Custom hatching, 225 

 Cuticle of egg, 164 



D 



Dampness, evil of, in poultry 



house, 261 

 Diaphragm of incubator, 190 

 Diarrhea, 482-483 

 Diffusion system of heating incu- 

 bators, 197 

 Digestibility, causes of variation 



in, 323 

 Digestible nutrients explained, 



321 

 Digestion, age, species, and indi- 

 viduality in, 328 

 coefficients, 321-323 

 definition of, 313 

 Digestive juices, 316-318 

 tract, diagram of, 315 

 parts of, 314r-319 

 Diphtheritic croup, 492 

 Dirt floor, construction of, 273 

 Dirty eggs, causes of, 467 

 Disease, inheritance of, 96-97 

 Diseases of poultry, 480-500 

 Disinfectants, use of, 296-298 

 Distributer, definition of, 37 

 Distribution of poultry, 25 

 Divisions of poultry industry, 27 

 Domestic fowl, origin of, 48-51 

 Domestication, influence of, 52-53 

 Dominiques, 72 

 Dorkings, 76 



