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GENERAL MANAGEMENT.

Neglect of Poultry-breeding--Profit of Poultry-keeping--Value to the Farmer--Poultry Shows--Cottage Poultry.

Size of the House--Brick and Wood--Cheap Houses--The Roof--Ventilation--Light--Warmth--The Flooring--Perches--Movable Frame--Roosts for Cochin-Chinas and Brahma-Pootras--Nests for laying--Cleanliness--Fowls' Dung--Doors and Entrance-holes--Lime-washing--Fumigating--Raising Chickens under Glass.

Soil--Situation--Covered Run--Pulverised Earth for deodorising--Diet for confined Fowls--Height of Wall, &c.--Preventing Fowls from flying--The Dust-heap--Material for Shells--Gravel--The Gizzard--The Grass Run.

Table of relative constituents and qualities of Food--Barley--Wheat--Oats--Meal--Refuse Corn--Boiling Grain--Indian Corn, or Maize--Buckwheat--Peas, Beans and Tares--Rice--Hempseed--Linseed--Potatoes--Roots--Soft Food--Variety of Food--Quantity--Mode of Feeding--Number of Meals--Grass and Vegetables--Insects--Worms--Snails and Slugs--Animal Food--Water--Fountains.

Eggs all the Year round--Warmth essential to laying--Forcing Eggs--Soft Shells--Shape and Colour of Eggs--The Air-bag--Preserving Eggs--Keeping and Choosing Eggs for setting--Sex of Eggs--Packing Setting-eggs for travelling.

Evil of restraining a Hen from sitting--Checking the Desire--A separate House and Run--Nests for sitting in--Damping Eggs--Filling for Nests--Choosing their own Nests--Choosing a Hen for sitting--Number and Age of Eggs--Food and Exercise--Absence from the Nest--Examining the Eggs--Setting two Hens on the same day--Time of Incubation--The "tapping" sound--Breaking the Shell--Emerging from the Shell--Assisting the Chicken--Artificial Mothers--Artificial Incubation.

The Chicken's first Food--Cooping the Brood--Basket and Wooden Coops--Feeding Chickens--Age for Fattening--Barn-door Fattening--Fattening-Houses--Fattening-Coops--Food--"Cramming"-- Capons and Poulardes--Killing Poultry--Plucking and packing Fowls--Preserving Feathers.

Well-bred Fowls--Choice of Breed--Signs of Age--Breeding in-and-in--Number of Hens to one Cock--Choice of a Cock--To prevent Cocks from fighting--Choice of a Hen--Improved Breeds--Origin of Breeds--Crossing--Choice of Breeding Stock--Keeping a Breed pure.

The first Show--The first Birmingham Show--Influence of Shows--Exhibition Rules--Hatching for Summer and Winter Shows--Weight--Exhibition Fowls sitting--Matching Fowls--Imparting lustre to the Plumage--Washing Fowls--Hampers--Travelling--Treatment on Return--Washing the Hampers and Linings--Exhibition Points--Technical Terms.

BREEDS.

LIST OF PLATES.

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