5^4 
Index. 
Ducks, Rearing for Market 
PAGE 
534, 536 
Eggs, To Distinguish Fertile 
,, ,, Show Purposes 
... 
••• 537 
,, to tell which will Hatch 
,, Rouen 
... 
••• 539 
Elephantiasis ... 
,, Spotted-Bill 
••• 554 
Emu Fowls 
,, to Feed Distinct from Fowls 
... 30 
Enemies in the Yard 
,, Whistling 
. . . 
••• 552 
Entries, Late 
,, Wild British 
533, 553 
Entry Forms ... 
Dumpies or Bakies 
• •• 445 
Entwisle, Mr. W. F., on Game 
Duration of Fertility after Copulation 
... 128 
,, ,, Game Bantams 
Dust-baths 
... 32 
Eruptions 
Dutch Every-day Layers 
. . . 
... 364 
Estimates of Profit 
Dysentery 
* . . 
... 191 
Evans, Mr., on Brahmas 
E. 
Early Chickens, Shelter for 
• • • 
70, 136 
Even Feeding 
Exhibition, Best Age for 
,, Breeding for 
,, Eggs, Securing 
... 
21, 34, 135 
,, Care of Birds for 
East India Ducks 
••• 545 
,, Evils of Over-showing ... 
Egg, All Life from the ... ... ... 
. . . 
... 36 
,, Feeding for 
,, Formation of the 
. . . 
... 36 
,, Final Touches before ... 
Egg-bound Fowls 
... 192 
,, Hampers for 
Egg-eating Flens, Nest for ... 
... 41 
, , Penning Previous to 
Egg-organs, Derangements of 
38, 201 
,, Preparation for ... 
Egg-production may be Increased 
40, no 
,, Selection of Birds for ... 
,, ,, of Various Breeds ... 
... 40 
,, Washing Birds for 
Egg-protectors in Hatching ... 
... 49 
Exhibition Pens, Sizes 
Egg-tester, Description and Diagram of .. 
... 48 
Exporting Poultry 
Eggs, Barren, To Distinguish 
... 48 
,, Broken during Incubation 
... 47 
F. 
,, Carriage of, to Market 
••• 95 
Faces of Spanish 
,, Chilled, Treatment for 
... 49 
Failures in Hatching 
,, Cleanliness of, and Price 
... 100 
Fairhurst, Miss, on White Dorkings 
,, Consumption per Head of Population 
... 89 
Falcated Duck 
,, Cracked while Platching, to Treat ... 
... 50 
Fancy Poultry, Utility of 
,, Early for Breeding 
. . . 
••• 135 
Farmers and Poultry... 
,, Easily Addled in Spring 
. . 0 
... 49 
Farms, Alleged Poultry 
,, Fertility of 
44, 48, 66 
,, Poultry on 
,, Foreign 
... 
89, 102 
Fattening Chickens 
„ Foretelling Sex in 
... 44 
,, in Sussex 
,, Importation of, from Abroad... 
... 89 
Faults for Exhibition... 
„ Incubation of, in Different Birds 
... 49 
,, Choosing between 
,, Instrument for Testing Fertility of ... 
... 48 
Feather-eating 
,, in Winter 
21, 34 
,, in Ploudans ... 
,, Moderate Number to be Set ... 
. . . 
... 47 
Feathers, Value of 
,, Moistening during Incubation 
... 47 
Feeding and Food 
,, New-laid 
97, 102 
Feeding at Shows 
,, often Stolen ... 
34 
,, Breeding Stock 
,, Packages for 
93 
,, Even, for Table Fowls 
,, Packing for Journeys 
. . . 
... 42 
,, for Exhibition 
,, Position for Storing ... 
. . . 
... 41 
,, on Shipboard 
,, Preserving for Winter 
. . . 
43, 44 
,, Vessels 
,, Purchased 
• • • 
... 121 
Female Labour, Poultry and 
,, Selection of, for Hatching 
45 
Fencing Difficulty of, on Farms 
,, Set, to be Marked 
... 
... 47 
,, for Poultry Yards 
,, sold, Pedigree Notes of 
... 142 
Fertility after Separation from Cock 
,, Storing 
... 41 
„ of Eggs • 
,, to be Regularly Collected 
... 
40 
Field, Mr. J. P., on Wyandottes 
PAGE 
43 
49 
192 
225 
180 
158 
157 
298 
487 
192 
33 
271 
577 
146 
124 
147 
i55 
149 
i54 
i53 
149 
148 
148 
151 
1 59 
178 
- 352 
... 121 
••• 329 
553 
... 113 
92, 94, 103 
9i, 97 
93, 96, 108 
... 77 
... 324 
... 149 
... 128 
... 193 
... 413 
- 33 
... 23 
••• 159 
••• 135 
••• 577 
... 149 
... 178 
... 28 
... 91 
... xo8 
4 
... 128 
44, 43, 66 
••• 439 
