INDEX. 



Brooding:, 80, 82, S7, DO, S", 105. 

 Cabbage, S6, 94, 96, 99, 103, 104. 

 Capita! required, S3. 

 Carrots, 103, 104. 

 Cayenne pepper, 84 

 Charcoal, 75. 

 Chinese trade, 94. 

 Clover hay, 79, S3, S6, 96, 108. 

 Corn, S3, 93, 96, 99. 

 bread, S7. 

 fodder, 103, 106. 



meal, 79, S3,, S6, 87, SS, 93, 94, 96, 97 

 99, 104, 105. 

 Cracker crumbs, SO, 87, SS. 

 Cramps, 95. 

 Dandelion, 93. 

 Diarrhoea, SO, S7. 

 Diseases, contagious, 84. 

 Disinfectant, S5. 

 Dressing, 78, 79, S5, 95, 98. 

 cost of, 95. 

 speed of, 79, 98. 

 Driving, 85. 



Ducks, average number raised, 88. 

 how to handle, 86. 

 land, 79, 84. 



saleable market, 80, 90, 97. 

 selling live, 94. 

 shrinkage in, 95. 

 yellow-skinned, 79, 97. 

 white-skinned, 79, 97. 

 Ducklings, removing from Incubator, 97. 

 teaching to eat, 82. 105. 

 weight of, 82, "86, 92, 94, 95 

 97, 106. 

 Egg organs, inflammation of, 85. 

 production, 82, 86, SS, 99. 104. 

 tester, how to make, 97. 

 Eggs, cooling, 94. 



fertile, 79, SO, 86, 89, 93, 95, 96, 99, 



104. 106. 

 for hatching, 83, 84, 90, 95. 

 hard-boiled, 86. 87, 88. 

 sale of infertile, 97. 104. 

 testing, 97. 

 washing, 79, SO, 84. 

 Failures, SS, 106. 

 Fattening, SO, 83, 90, 92, 93, 94. ' 

 Feather-pulling, 79. 

 Feathers, market value of, 95. 



weight of, SO. 

 Feeding breeders. S3, 85, 95, 96, 103. 



ducklings, 7S, 79, 80, S3, 86, 87, 



88, 93, 94, 97. 

 grain, 78. 



Feet, cold, 84. 



Fish, 102. 



Flour, S3, 84, 87, 105. 



Food, amount consumed, S2, 87, 103. 



cost of, 79, S7. 



soft, 78. 



tainted, 93, 96. 

 Giddiness, S9. 

 Gluten, 103, 1C6. 

 Grain feeding, 78. 

 Grass, 104. 

 Green ducks, cost of, 80, 87, ICO. 



prices of, 78, 98, 100, 102. 

 ; weight of. 7S. 



Green food, 79, 83, 86, 88, 93, 94, 93, 96, 97 



105, 106. 

 Grit, 84, 86, S3, 96, 99. 

 Groats, 93. 



Hatching, S4, 85, 8D, 92, 94, 95, 96, 105. 

 Heat of brooder, 82, S7. 

 House floor, 79. 

 Housing, S2, S4, 95, 96. 99, 104. 

 Incubator, temperature of, 82, 89, 92, 96. 

 Jewish trade, 94. 

 Keel, S4, 103. 

 Labor, 81, 90, 100, 103. 

 Land, 83. 

 Laying, 78. S6, 99. 104. 



season, 79, 84, 103, 104, 1(B. 

 i Leg weakness, 78, 85, 89, 94. 

 ! Lettuce, 93, 1S6. 

 I Manure, 90, 103. 

 ■ Mating, 78, 79, SS, SS, 104, 185. 

 ! Maturity, age of, 84. 

 Milk, SO, 87, 93, 97, 106. 

 Moisture in hatching, 85, SO, 97. 

 Molting. 79. 96. 



Mortality, causes of, 84, SS, S9, 90, 94. 

 Nervousness, S4, S6, 86, S7, 105, 

 Oats ground, S3, 96, 99, 103. 104, 105. 

 Onion 93. 

 Overcrowding, 79, 

 Over fat. 84, 95. 

 Oyster .shell, 78, 79, 84, 96, 99. 

 Pekin ducks, 86. 95. 

 Pin feathers, 95. 

 Pioneer days, 100, 102. 

 Potatoes, 86. 88, 96, 99. 

 Proflt and loss, S3, S5, 86, 87, 94. 

 Rain storms, 82. 

 Range, 79. 

 Requirements, 95. 

 Rice, 93. 



Rolled oats, S3, 86, 88. 

 Rye, green, 99, 103, 104. 

 Salt, 86. 



Sand, feeding, 78, 86, 87, 88, 93, 99. 

 Shade, 78. 

 Shipping. 86. 95, 98. 

 Shorts, 83, 103, 104. 105. 

 Snowy weather, 82. 

 Soil, 84. 

 Spasms, 89, 94. 

 Stench, 85. 

 Stock, breeding, 78. 

 Success, rules for, 82, 90. 

 Sun, 78. 

 Troughs, 105. 



Turnips, 83, 86, 88, 96, 99, 103, 104. 

 Water, bathing, 79, 80, 84, 85. 



drinking, 78, 79, 86, 92. 



for ducklings, 78. 

 Weakness, 80. 

 Wheat, 93. 

 Wings, twisted, 79. 

 Yards, purifying, 79. 



size of, 90. 



GUINEA BROILERS. 



Demand, 108. 

 Weight, 108. 



