INDEX. 



Roofing, 59, 60, 62. 



burlap, 69. 



felt, 60, 62. 



gravel, C2. 



Paroid, 62. 



Red Rope Neponset, 59, 62. 



slate, 62. 



Swan's Standard, 62. 



tar paper, 60. 



tin, 62. 

 Huns, broiler, 31. 

 Salt, 52, 54, 55. 

 Sand, course, 49, 54. 

 Scalding, 64. 



vs. dry-picking-, 64. 

 Scratching material, 50. 

 Shingles, 59. 

 Shipping, pointers on, 14. 



to market, 66. 

 Shrinkage, 12, 63. 

 Slate roofing, 62. 

 Spratfs Patent Poultry Meal, 55. 

 Spring chickens, 12, 13. 

 Sprinkling eggs, 23. 

 Squab broilers, 13, 16, 17, 21. 

 Stale eggs, 6, 24. 

 Straw, 50. 

 Sulphur. 54. 



Swan's Standard roofing, 62. 

 System, lack of, 7. 

 Tagging, 11. 

 Tar paper roofing, 60. 



Temperature for hatching, 23, 24, 25, 27 

 28, 33, 36, 42, 50. 

 Testing eggs, 23, 30, 34. 

 That tired feeling, 7. 

 Thermometer, 24, 28. 

 Tin roofing, 62. 

 Trays, cleaning, 27. 

 shifting, 27. 

 Trimming wick, 23. 

 Troughs, feed, 54. 

 Tuberculosis, 19. 



Turning eggs, 23, 24, 26, 30, 34. 

 Ventilation in incubator room, 23, 28, 34. 



in incubator, 37, 38. 

 AVarmth, first week, 50. 

 W^aste bread, 49. 



"Water, drinking, 46, 47, 53, 54, 56, 63. 

 Weak chicks, 68, 63. 

 Weight, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17. 

 Wet weather, 18. 

 Wheat, cracked, 47, 49, 52, 53, 56, 63. 



whole, 49, 54, 56. 

 Wick, trimming, 23. 

 Wing, cutting, 57, 58. 



feathers, pulling, 57. 

 Wings, drooping, 57, 58, 59. 



PIGEONS, 



Aviary, 72. 

 Bath, 72. 

 Bath tubs, 72. 

 Birds, mated, 75. 

 Breeding life, 75. 

 Canada peas, 75, 76. 

 Charcoal, 75, 76. 

 Corn, cracked, 75, 76. 

 Kaffir, 75, 76. 



Disinfectant, 70, 76. 

 Dragoon, 74, 75. 

 Dressing, mode of, 73. 

 speed in, 73. 

 Failures, cause of, 7B. 

 Feed, 75. 



amount to, 76. 



cost of. 7G. 



time to, 76. 

 Feeding, 75, 76. 

 Fly, 72, 76. 



Fountains, care of, 76. 

 drinking, 76. 

 Grit, 75. 

 Hemp, 75, 76. 

 Homers, 70, 72, 74, 75. 

 House, 72, 76. 

 Inbreeding, 75. 

 Kaflir corn, 75, 76. 

 I.,ice, 70. 



preventive, 70. 



wing, 70. 

 Lime, 76. 

 Millet, 75, 76. 

 Mortality, 75. 

 Oyster shell, 75, 76. 

 Packing, mode of, 74. 

 Parents feeding squabs, neglectful, 75. 

 Peas, Canada, 75, 76. 

 Persian Insect Powder, 72. 

 Pigeon milk. 76. 

 Plumping, 73. 

 Quarantine, 72. 

 Runt, 75. 

 Salt, 75, 76. 

 Sawdust, 70., 

 Sexes, 74. 

 Shipping, 74. 

 Snuff. 72. 

 Squabs, number of, 72. 



parents feeding, 76. 

 weak and puny, 75. 

 Start, making the, 74. 



time to, 75. 

 Tobacco stems, 72. 

 Trough, 76. 



Water, drinking, 75, 76. 

 Wheat, 75, 76. 

 Whitewash. 75. 



DUCKS. 



Apoplexy, 95. 



Artificial methods, S4, 95, 105. 



Barley meal, 93. 



Bedding, 79, 82, 83, 95, 99. 



Be«f scraps, 79, 80, 83, 86, 88, 93, 94, 95, 96, 



97, 99, 104, 105, 106. 

 Beets, 86, 88, 104. 

 Bonemeal, 93. 



Bran, 79, 83, 86, 87, 88, 93, 94, 96, 97, 99. 

 Bread crumbs, SO, 83, 86, 88, 105. 

 Breeding, age of, 78. 103. 



stock, 78, 79. 83. 84, 86, 87, 88, 91, 

 96, 96, 99, 103. 



capacity of. 80, 103. 

 weight of, 103. 

 Broiler ducklings, 94. 

 Brooder, cold, 80. 



size of, 79, 89. 



