Index. 
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Rearing Bantams 
483 
Sexes, Influence of, in Breeding 
131 
,, Chickens 
72 
,, Pens to Breed Cockerels and Puliets 
... 132 
,, ,, Artificially... 
74 > 429 
,, Separating 
... 143 
,, ,, in Sussex ... 
323 
Sharps as Food ... ... 
26 
„ Prize Birds ... 
135 
Sheds for Poultry 
5 , 13 
Reaumur’s Experiments in Incubation 
52 
,, Rearing Chickens 
13, 7 o, 137 
Redcaps 
377 
Shelf in Fowl-house ... 
4 
Redness of Combs 
150, 154 
Shinowaratao Fowls ... 
... 450 
Regulating Heat in Incubators 
54 , 57 , 63, 64 
Shows in France 
... 1 14 
Resemblance of Progeny to Parents 
133 
Shows, Poultry ... ... 
... 156 
Resting Travelled Eggs before Hatching ... 
66 
,, ,, Care of Fowls at 
• •• 159 
Restoratives after a Journey ... 
154 
,, Catalogues of 
... 161 
Reversion Due to Crossing ... 
125 
,, ,, Double Numbering of Pens at 
... 158 
Rheumatism ... 
199 
,, ,, Entry Forms for 
.. 157 
Rice as Food for Poultry 
26 
„ ,, Judging 
... 163 
Robinet, Madame, on Caponising ... 
84 
,, ,, Malicious Injuries at 
161, 173 
,, ,, Fattening Poultry 
78 
,, ,, Sales of Birds at 
• • • 
... 161 
Robson, Miss, on Farm Poultry 
104 
,, ,, Trimming at ... 
... 168 
Rocks, Plymouth 
432 
Silky Cochins 
. • • 
... 225 
Roof of Poultry-house or Shed 
3 , 15 
Silky Fowls 
• • • 
• •• 459 
Roosting, Barred Floors for ... 
16 
,, as Sitters 
... 461 
,, Evils of too Early... 
72, 144 
, , and Langshans ... 
... 239 
,, Perches for 
15, 144 
Simpson, Mr. W., on Plymouth Rocks 
. . • 
— 434 
,, on Straw ... 
16 
,, ,, Turkeys 
... 518 
Rouen Ducks ... 
539 
Sitting, Eggs for a 
... 142 
Roue, Mr. W., on Preparing Spanish for Exhibition ... 347 
,, Hens 
- 45 
Roup ... 
... ... 200 
,, ,, Nests for 
46 
Rumpless Fowls 
456 
Sizes of Pens ... 
... 159 
Russian Fowls... 
458 
Skull of Polish Fowls 
- 395 
Skunks and Minks 
... 1S2 
S. 
Slipped Wings 
... 145 
Saddle for Washing Spanish 
348 
Small Holdings, Poultry Specially Suitable for 
91, 95, 106 
Sales at Shows 
161, 177 
Small Yard, Plan for a 
. . . 
2 
,, of Surplus Stock 
177 
Smith, Mr., on Washing Fowls 
... 151 
Scale of Points, Use of 
164 
„ White Cochins 
... 223 
,, ,, Theory of ... 
228 
Snow, Effect of, on Fowls 
... 31 
Scaly Leg ... 
192 
Soft Eggs 
... 201 
Schedules 
i 57 
,, Food 
24. 27, 71 
Scotch Greys ... 
459 
Solomon, First Importer of Fancy Poultry... 
.. 
... 528 
Scrofula 
198 
Sonnerat’s Jungle Fowl 
... 497 
Seamons, Mrs., on Ducks ... 
536 
Space, Economising, in House 
7 
,, ,, Geese 
560 
,, for Grass Run 
13, 16 
Sebright Bantams 
474 
,, Smallest Possible 
5 
,, ,, Sterility of .. 
477 
Spanish Fowls 
... 340 
Selecting Birds for Exhibition 
148 
,, ,, Breeding for Exhibition 
••• 344 
Selling Market Poultry 
94 
,, ,, Care of the Faces 
344 , 347 , 352 
„ Surplus Prize Stock ... 
.... 177 
,, ,, Combs of 
345 , 350 
Separating Sexes 
143 
,, ,, Cuckoo 
... 361 
Separation of Mated Birds, Evils of 
134 
,, ,, Dark Houses for 
••• 343 
Serjeantson, Rev. W. , on Black Hamburghs 
386 
,, ,, Delicacy in 
••• 343 
,, ,, East India Ducks 
545 
,, ,, Ear-lobes of ... 
354 
,, ,, Fancy Ducks ... 
554 
,, ,, Effects of Hardy Treatment on 
... 342 
Setting Hens ... 
45,46 
,, „ Judging 
... 362 
Sexes, Control of 
133 
,, ,, Origin of 
... 340 
,, Distinguishing 
143 
,, ,, Preparing for Exhibition 
344 , 347 
,. Foretelling 
- 44 
,, ,, Qualities of ... 
- 355 
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