INDEX. 



BROILERS. 



Age, broiler, 10. 

 Air cells, 24. 



outdoor, 54. 

 American Poultry Food, 47. 

 Animal food, 47, 58. 

 Asparagus chickens, 16. 

 Baking soda, 54. 

 Barley, 49. 

 Beef trimmings, 49. 

 Bone, granulated, 49, 66. 

 green cut, 48. 

 meal.' 54, 58. 

 Bowel disease, 36, 39, 43, 53, 54, 62, 63. 

 Bran, 47, 52. 53, 54, 65, 56, 63. 



Bread crumbs, 47, 49, 53, 56. - „.. 



wa£te. 49. 

 Breeding stock, 42, 49, 67. 

 Broiler age, 10. 



farm, an exclusive. 9. 

 requirements, 11, 12, 15. 

 runs, 31. 

 Broilers and eggs, 19, 38. 

 birthplace of, 6. 

 breeds for, 10, 11, 42. 

 celery-fed, 47. 

 dry-picked, 64. 

 eggs and fruit, 38. 

 fattening, 52. 

 Philadelphia, 11. 

 plumping, 64. 

 preparing for market, 63. 

 scalded, 64. 



shipping to market, 66. 

 shrinkage, 63. 

 squab, 13, 16, 17, 21. 

 Brooder heat, 30, 31, 36, 37, 38, 39, 42, 50. 



houses, 35, 39, 43, 45. 

 Brooders, 30, 31, 35, 37, 43, 50. 

 capacity of, 31, 32, 42. 

 care of, 44. 

 carpeting, 32. 

 condition of, 35. 

 floors of, 36, 52. 

 greenhouse, 32. 

 outdoor, 32. 

 painting for lice, 32. 

 Broody hens vs. incubators, 33, 43, 46 

 Buckwheat, 49. 

 Burlap for roofing, 59. 

 Cabbage. 49, 52. 53. 

 Canary seed, 46. 

 Capacity, brooder, 31, 32, 42. 

 Capital, too little, 7. 

 Carcass, drawn, 13, 14. 

 Carelessness, 7. 

 Care of brooders, 44. 

 Carpeting brooders, 32. 

 Celery, 47. 



fed broilers, 47. 



Cellar for incubators, 23, 28, 34, 41 

 Charcoal, 46, 47, 49, 50, 53, .54, 56, 63. 

 Chick grit, 44, 46. 



manna, P. P. C, 54. 

 Chicks, care of, in brooders, 39, 43, 44, 49, 

 52, 53, 54. 

 chilled, 50. 

 costive, 63. 



dead in shell, 26, 30, 40, 41. 

 diarrhoea in, 36, 49, 63. 

 fatality among, 42. 

 gapes in, 54. 



leg weakness in, 36, 39, 48, 50. 

 lice on, 37, 54, 59. 

 removing from Incubator, 26, 28, 



34, 37. 

 stunted growth in, 67. 

 weak, 58, 63. 

 Chickens, asparagus, 16. 



doctoring, 39. 

 Chilled chicks, 50. 

 eggs, 6, 24. 

 Clover, green cut, 56. 



hay chaff, 50, 56. 

 meal, 46, 47, 49. 

 Coal ashes, 49. 

 Commission merchant, 16. 

 Cooling eggs, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29. 

 Corn cake, 49, 53, 54, 55 63. 



cracked, 47, 48, 49, 50, 52, 53, 54, 66, 



58, 63. 

 meal, 46, 47, 49, 50, 53. 54, 56, 58, 63. 

 Costiveness, 63. 

 Cost of producing eggs, 19. 



of production, 9, 37. 

 Cottonseed meal, 47, 52. 

 Cracked corn, 47, 48, 49, 50, 52, 63 54, 66 

 58, 63. 

 oats, 47, 48, 49. 

 wheat, 47, 49, 52, 53, 66, 63. 

 Cripples, 29, 63. 

 Crop, size, of chick's, 46. 

 Crows, 18. 



Dead in shell, 26, 30, 40, 41. 

 Debt, 6. 



Diarrhoea, 36, 49, 63. 

 Doctoring, 39. 

 Douglas Mixture, 54. 

 Drawbacks, 18. 

 Drawn carcass, 13, 14. 

 Drooping wings, 57, 58, 69. 

 Dry-picking, 64. 



vs. scalding, 64. 

 Eggs, air cells in, 24. 



cooling, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29. 

 cost of producing, 19. 

 evaporation in, 25, 38, 40. 

 fertile, 34, 40, 41, 67. 

 handling, 30. 

 hard-boiled, 46, 49, 63, 65, 66, 63. 



