JUL 25 1903 
INDEX. 
Advertise, Farmers who. 122 
Advertise, How and When to.121-122 
Advertising, About. 125 
A Study of Profits. 45 
Barred Plymouth Rooks. 24 
Bees and Poultry. 119 
Better Layers and More of Them. 36 
Bookkeeping, Poultry Farm. 127 
Brahmas, Light. 31 
Breeding for Eggs. 43 
Buff Orpingtons . 30 
Buff Plymouth Rocks. 26 
Buff Wynandottes . 29 
Chapter I. Natural Habits of the Hen. 11 
Chapter II. Thoroughbred, or Bred to a Pur¬ 
pose . 20 
Chapter III. Pedigree Breeding for Egg Pro¬ 
duction . 33 
Chapter IV. Pullets for Layers. 52 
Chapter V. Practical Egg Farms. 59 
Chapter VI. P'oods and Feeding. 94 
Chapter VII. Catering to the Market. 110 
Chapter VIII. Combination Egg Farming. ... 115 
Chapter IX. When and How to Advertise ... . 121 
Chicks, Feeding The. 103 
Colony Plan, Advantages and Disadvantages of. 92 
Colony Plan, Egg Farms, Two. 87 
Commonsense in Poultry Advertising. 124 
Composition of Eggs. 7 
December, 4,000 Eggs in. 54 
Diet, Place of Eggs in the. 6 
Dry Feeding Method, The. 101 
Egg Farm, A Great.. . 61 
Egg Farm, A New England . . 64 
Egg Farm, Another New England. 67 
Egg Farm, Another Profitable.. 70 
Egg Farm, Mr. Wilbur’s Great. 89 
Egg Farm, Mr. VanDreser’s. 73 
Egg Farms, Practical. 59 
Egg Farms, Two Colony-Plan. 87 
Egg Farms, Two New England. 68 
Egg Production, Mating For. 37 
Egg Production, Pedigree Breeding For.33-42 
Egg, The . 8 
Eggs, Breeding For. 43 
Eggs, Description and Composition of. 7 
Eggs, Feeding Clover For. 106 
Eggs, Feeding For, How Much. 97 
Eggs, Feeding Fowls For. 94 
Eggs, 4,000 in December. 54 
Eggs, Getting Strong, Fertile. 104 
Eggs, Increase of... .. 7 
Eggs In Fall and Winter. .. 48 
Eggs in Winter. 57 
Eggs, Keeping and Marketing. 114 
Eggs, Lay 200. 41 
Eggs, Place of in the Diet. 6 
Eggs, Producing at Minimum Cost. 98 
Eggs, Storage and LTses of. 8 
Eggs, 210 per Hen, Mr. Wood’s. 48 
Eggs, Uses of.. ... 5 
Fair View Poultry Farm. 84 
Fall and Winter, Eggs in... 48 
Family Trade, Building up A. Ill 
Farmers who Advertise. 122 
Feed, What to. 109 
Feeding Clover For Eggs.,.. 106 
Feeding Fowls for Eggs. 94 
Feeding the Chicks. 103 
Future, Probabilities of The . 16 
Green Food Every Day. 50 
Green Food, Importance of. 109 
Hen, Natural Habits of The. 11 
Increase of Eggs. 7 
Introductory. 5 
Keeping the Records. 37 
Lakewood Poultry Farm. 61 
Large Production. 42 
Layers, Better, and More of Them . 36 
Laying, When the Pullets Take to. 50 
Leading Practical Varieties,The. 21 
Leghorns, Single Comb White. 22 
Light Brahmas. 31 
Maine Experiment Station Nest Boxes. 38 
Minorcas, Black . 23 
Molt, Producing an Early. 107 
Nest Boxes for Individual Records. 38 
Nest Boxes, Maine Experiment Station. 38 
Nests, Trap. 40 
Orpingtons . 30 
Pedigree Breeding for Egg Production. 42 
Place of Eggs in the Diet, The. 6 
Plum trees and Poultry. 118 
Plymouth Rock, The. 24 
Plymouth Rocks, Barred. 24 
Plymouth Rocks, Buff. 26 
Plymouth Rocks, White. 25 
Poultry Advertising, Commonsense In. 124 
Poultry and Bees, an Ideal Combination. 119 
Poultry and Fruit, Beginning With. 118 
Poultry and Plum Trees. . .. 118 
Poultry Farm Bookkeeping. 127 
Poultryman, A Typical. 81 
Practical Varieties, The Leading. 21 
Probabilities of the Future, The. 16 
Producing an Early Molt. 107 
Profitable Egg Farming. 73 
Profits, a Study of. 45 
Pinning to Improve the Trees. 119 
Pullets vs. Hens as Profitable Layers.: . . . 55 
Quality . 113 
Records, Keeping The. 37 
Rewards of Success, The. 126 
Rhode Island Reds, The. 29 
Roots for Hens, Value of. 99 
Storage and Uses of Eggs. 8 
Success, Conditions of. 126 
Success, Rewards of. 126 
Trap Nest Selection The Best. 34 
Trap Nests.. . . . . 40 
Trap Nests Necessary. 36 
Trees, Pruning to Improve The. 119 
Typical Poultryman, A. 81 
Uses of Eggs. 5-8 
Van Dreser’s Egg Farm.,. 73 
What Domestication Has Done. 15 
What to Feed. 109 
White Leghorn Poultry Yards. 71 
White Leghorns for Utility and Fancy. 84 
White Plymouth Rocks. 25 
White Wyandottes . 29 
Wilbur’s, Mr., Great Poultry Farm. 89 
Winter, Eggs in. 57 
Wyandottes, Buff . 29 
Wyandottes, White. 27 
Wyckoff Poultry Farm, The. 81 
Yard Problem, The. 79 
