INDEX. 



Eggs, heat in, 28, 29, 30. 



helping chicks out, 35. 

 holding for hatching, 26, 27, 30, 

 infertile, 25, 34. 

 placing in incubator, 24, 30. 

 raw, 53, 58. 



selecting, 27, 34, 37, 42. 

 sprinkling, 23. 

 stale and chilled, 6, 24. 

 supplying incubator, 42, 43. 

 testing, 23, 30, 34. 

 turning, 23, 24, 26, 30, 34. 

 Evaporation in eggs, 25, 38, 40. 

 Failures, what they taught, 5. 



why the, 5, 6, 40. 

 Fatality among chicks, 42. 

 Fattening broilers, 52. 

 Fed, when first, 53, 56. 

 Feed, condition of, 54. 

 dry, 47, 55. 



scalded, 47, 49, 52, B3, 54. 

 troughs, 54, 56. 

 Feeding, mistakes in, 15, 46. 



regularity in, 46, 47, 48, 50, 



54, 56. 

 rule in, 46, 47, 50. 

 Felt roofing, 60, 62. 

 Fertile eggs, 34, 40, 41, 67. 

 Floors of brooders, 36, 52. 

 Flour, second grade, 48, 53, 55. 

 Food, American Poultry, 47. 

 cooked, 48, 55. 

 cost of, 9, 37, 46. 

 dishes, 52, 56. 

 remaining over, 56. 

 sour, 46. 

 F. P. C. Chick Manna, 54. 

 Fountains, drinking, care of, 46. 

 Gapes, 54. 

 Germ, 63. 



Granulated bone, 49, 56. 

 Gravel, 53. 



roofing, 62. 

 Green cut-bone, 48. 

 cut-clover, 56. 

 stuff, 47, 48, 53, 56, 63. 

 Grit, 44, 46, 47, 63, 56, 63. 

 Ground oats, 47, 49. 

 Growth, stunted, 57. 

 Hatch average incubator, 25, 

 condition of, 36. 

 when to, 37. 

 Hatches, per cent, 41. 

 Handling eggs, 30. 

 Hard-boiled eggs, 46, 49, 53, 55, 56, 63. 

 Heat, brooder, 30, 31, 36, 37, 38, 39, 42, 50. 



in eggs, 28, 29, 30. 

 Hearts, sheep or cattle, 49. 

 Helping chicks out of eggs, 35, 

 Hens vs. incubators, 43. 



vs. pullets for broilers, 37, 67, 68. 

 Hot-water incubators, 8, 42. 

 Hulled oats, 47, 54. 

 Incubator, average hatch, 25. 

 cleaning trays, 27. 

 cellar for, 23, 28, 34, 41 . 

 eggs, business supplying, 4; 



43. 

 placing eggs in, 24, 30. 

 points of success, 27. 

 record for, 27. 



Incubator, removing chicks from, 26, 28, 

 34, 37. 

 ^- room, 25, 26, 28, 41. 



ventilation, 23, 28, 34. 

 selecting, 28. 

 shifting trays, 27. 

 ventilation for, 37, 38. 

 Incubators, first steps with, 41. 

 hot water, 8, 42. 

 moisture in, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 



29, 30, 34, 38, 40, 41, 43. 

 value of, 33, 37, 41, 43. 

 vs. hens, 43. 

 Inexperience, 7. 

 Infertile eggs, 25, 34. 

 Johnny cake, 49, 63, 54, 63. 

 Lamps, care of, 23, 24, 25, 28. 



oil for, 23. 

 Land, amount required, 38. 

 Lawn clippings, 46. 

 Lice, 37, 54, 59. 



in brooders, 32. 

 Leg weakness, 36, 39, 48, 50. 

 52. Lettuce, 46, 53. 

 Linseed meal, 48. 

 Livers, sheep or cattle, 49. 

 Mangolds, 56. 

 Markets, 12, 16. 

 Meat meal, 47, 48, 49, 54, 63. 



scraps, 46. 47, 48, 49, 53, 56. 

 Middlings, 47, 49, 54, 55, 56. 

 Milk, 47, 48, 49, DO, 53. 54, 55, 57, 63. 

 Millet, 46, 47, 50, 52, 56. 

 Moisture, 24„ 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 34, 88, 



40, 41, 43. 

 Molasses, 52. 

 Neponset roofing, 59, 62. 

 Nursery, 53. 



Oats, cracked, 47, 48, 49. 

 ground, 47, 49. 

 hulled, 47, 54. 

 rolled, 47, 49, 50, 53, 56, 63. 

 Oatmeal, 49, 53. 

 Oil for lamps, 23. 

 Onion tops, 46, 53. 

 Overcrowding, 7, 59. 

 Outdoor brooders. 32. 

 Oyster shell, 47, 49, 53, 56. 

 Painting brooders for lice, 32. 

 Parent stock, 12, 37. 

 Paroid roofing, 62. 

 Pepper, 52, 54, 63. 

 Philadelphia broilers, 11. 

 Plumping, 64. 



Potatoes, cooked, 47, 49, 54. 

 raw, 49, 52. 

 roasted, 53. 

 Poultry Meal, Spratt's Patent, 65. ' 



Prices, market, 8, 9, 13. 

 Range, 11. 

 Rape, 56. 

 Raw eggs, 53, 58. 



Red Rope Neponset Roofing, 59, 62. 

 Refrigerator stock, 12. 

 Removing chicks, 26, 28, 34, 37. 

 Rented ground, 7, 18. 

 Requirements, 9, 16, 19. 



broiler, 11, 12, 15. 

 Rice, boiled, 63. 



Rolled oats, 47, 49, 50, 53, 56, 63. 

 Roof, cheap, 59, 60. 



