.57473

Shade.

.57479 Miscellaneous.

.5748 Yards, fences, hurdles.
.5749 Miscellaneous.

.575 Identification (band, tag, punch).
.576 Incubation,

577 Sanitation. (See 5.)

.579 Miscellaneous.

.58 Marketing.

.580 General.

.581 Baby chicks.

.582

.583

Breeding stock.

Dressed poultry.

.5831 Drawing.

.5832 Dry picking.

.5833

Killing.

.5834

Packing.

.5835

Scalding.

.5839 Miscellaneous.

.584 Eggs.

.5841 Hatching.
.5842 Market.

.58421 Candling.
.58422 Packing.
.58423 Preservation.
.58429

Miscellaneous.

.5849 Miscellaneous.

.585 Live poultry. .589 Miscellaneous.

,59 Miscellaneous. .591 Canaries. .592 Guinea fowl. .5921 Variety.

.593

.59211 Lavender.
.59212 Pearl.

.59213

White.

.59219 Miscellaneous.
Parrots.

.594 Peafowl.

.595 Pigeons.

.5941 Variety.

.59511 Carneau.

.59512 Homer.

.59513 Maltese.

.59514 Runt.

.59516 White King.
Miscellaneous.

.59515

Swiss Mondaine.

U. S. D. A.-10-1-26

59519

Gestation.

Time to

breed after delivery

9th day.
9th day.
6 to 8
weeks.
81⁄2 weeks.
Summer

and fall.

The period of gestation for animals of the same kind varies to some extent, but the following are about the averages:

Days Months

1 The table gives the probable date of birth of young when the females are bred on the first or sixteenth day of the month. If the date of service is for instance 3, 5, 9, or 12 days after these dates, simply add the same number of days to date of expectation.