582 
Index. 
PAGE 
PAGE 
Boyle’s Incubator 
... 
57 
Carriage of Eggs 
• • • • 
... 95 
Bradbury, Mr. S. L., on Leghorns ... 
. . . 
427 
Castor Oil unfit for Fowls 
... 
. . . 204 
Brahmas 
245 
Catalogues 
... 
158, 161 
,, Burnham’s Claim to Origination of 
247 
Catarrh... 
... 
... 187 
,, Changes in Modern 
... 272 
Catholic Religion, Eggs and the 
... 
... 91 
,, Characteristics of ... 
. . . 
258 
Cats in the Chicken-yard 
... 
... 180 
,, Cornish, Mr. V., on Origin of 
245, 246, 253 
Cayuga Ducks ... 
... 
• •• 543 
,, Dark 
264 
Chalybeate Water 
... 
... 32 
,, ,, Breeding 
267 
Chamois Polish 
... 406 
,, Deterioration of 
272 
Chance Alliances 
... 128 
„ Judging 
273 
Charcoal, Granulated 
... 
... 32 
,, ,, Schedule for 
274 
Cheshire’s, Mrs. F. , Artificial Rearing Apparatus... 
... 429 
». Light 
261 
Chick, Development of the, in the Egg 
... 38 
,, ,, American 
262 
Chicken Pudding 
... 86 
,, Breeding 
262 
Chickens, Advantage of Cooping 
... 70 
,, Qualities of 
271 
,, Artificial Mothers for 
... 
75 » 429 
,, Tail of 
... 260 
,, Bedding for 
73 , 144 
,, The Queen’s 
252 
,, Cooping out 
... 69 
Breast, A Good 
576 
,, Coops 
... 70 
Breast-bone, Crooked 
. . . 
144 
,, ,, for Feeding Chickens among 
Poultry 
... 73 
„ Crushing 
577 
,, Custard for... 
72, 136 
„ in Turkeys 
523 
,, Diet for 
7 L 137 
Bredas or Gueldres ... 
4 i 7 
,, Dryness, Importance of, in Rearing 
... 72 
Breeders and Buyers ... 
11 7 
,, Evils of Early Roosting for 
... 
73 , 144 
Breeding : Ages of Breeding Stock ... 
133 
,, ,, Over-feeding 
72, 148 
„ Commencing the Strain ... 
120 
,, Fattening ... 
... 77 
,, Duration of Cock’s Influence 
. . . 
... 129 
,, Feeding, Times for 
72 , 137 
,, Fresh Blood, its Dangers ... 
. . . 
127 
,, First Food for 
... 68 
,, In-and-in 
127,295 
,, Green Food for 
70, 138 
„ Influence of Sexes in 
131 
,, in Small Space 
... 74 
„ Influences on the Hen 
131 
,, Management of ... 
... 68 
„ Mating Birds for ... 
124 
, , not to be taken from Hen 
... 68 
,, Prize Birds 
... 
124 
,, Older, not to be Neglected 
••• 73 
,, Prize Poultry Remunerative 
177 
,, Prize, Rearing of ... 
... 136 
„ Stock, Care of 
... 147 
,, Rearing Artificially 
74 , 429 
„ „ Feeding 
... 135 
,, Shelter when Abandoned by Hen 
••• 73 
„ Table Poultry 
... 
575 
,, very Young, How to Cook 
... 86 
„ the Sexes from different Pens 
... 
132 
Chilled Eggs, Treatment of 
... 49 
„ Varieties [see Names of Breeds). 
Chittagongs and Brahmas 
... 256 
Breeds, Classified ... ... .... 
... 
18 
Chittiprats 
... 382 
Bristol and Spanish Fowls 
... 
346 
Cholera in Fowls 
... 187 
Britain, Poultry in 
88 
Cleanliness 
. . . 
3 
Bronchitis 
... 
186 
,, of Eggs, and Price 
... IOO 
Brooke, Rev. A. G., on Malays 
... 
277 
Clift, Mr. W., on Breeding Turkeys 
. . . 
... 521 
Buckwheat for Poultry 
... 
29, 78 
Club, The Poultry 
- 175 
Bumble-foot ... 
... 
186, 334, 412 
Clubs in Lancashire 
••• 373 
Burnham, Mr., and Brahmas 
... 
247 
Cochin Bantams 
... 472 
Buyers and Breeders ... 
... 
... 117 
Cochins 
, . , 
... 208 
Buying and Selling ... 
176 
,, and Langshans 
237, 240 
C. 
,, Black... 
... 225 
a 
„ Buff 
• « « 
... 210 
Call Ducks 
... 
548 
,, Cuckoo 
... 
... 225 
Cambridge, Mr. E., on Black Bantams 
469 
,, Judging 
... 
... 228 
Canker... 
... 
187 
,, ,, Schedule for 
... 229 
Capons... 
... 
00 
00 
,, Partridge 
... 216 
Carolina Ducks 
... 
550 
Silky 
• • . 
225, 462 
