702 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



FINISHING FOR MARKET. 



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Now, as to getting them ready for the market. I commence to feed 

 them up in the fall, just as goon as nature's food commences to disappear, 

 which is generally about the middle of September, after the frost has 

 killed off all insects. I first commence with one part wheat shorts, one 

 part wheat bran, and two parts corn meal, using whatever small potatoes 

 we have to spare. This soft feed is fed morning and at noon, giving 

 them only what they will eat up quickly and clean. Then the last thing 

 at night I give a full feed of either corn or barley, allowing an occasional 

 feed of whole oats, being careful not to use too many oats. Later on, 

 about two or three weeks before they go to the market, they are getting 

 all of the corn they will eat up quickly and clean, three times a day, with 

 an occasional feed of the same mash as formulated above. 



SUCCESS WITH TURKEYS. 



H. A. NOURSE, ASSOCIATE EDITOR RELIABLE POULTRY JOURNAL. 



The nature of the range ©u which they rim in August is an Important 

 agent in producing satisfactory growth and development in young turkeys 

 ani preserving the health of old ones. In spring and early summer the 

 well drained uplands are more healthful and offer more nourishment to be 

 secured by thfe foraging flock, but in August more confort and food is 

 found in the meadows and swampis and well shaded tracts. The flock 

 will ai w spend the early hours of the day pursuing grasshoppers and 

 other animal food on the high land, but when the sun is well up they 

 will retreat to shaded places and spe»d the greater part of the day there. 

 A well wooded swamp offers more comfort and provides a greater amount 

 of foed, both vegetable and animal, than can be found anywhere else 

 in midsummer. The moist earth and decaying wood yield a rich supifly 

 of worms, bugs and insects amd tender roots and other fresh vegetable 

 growths take the place of the new blades of grass that the turkeys 

 gather on the mowing pasture lands earlier in the season, ©n farms 

 where ^here is no low, swampy territory an orchard of full grown trees 

 fursishes the best substitute. The trees will provide shade, und** which 

 there is likely to 1d» more or less fresh green food, even wh'en th« hills 

 are parched ahid brown, and the turkeys will render valuable service by 

 destroying animal life thatt preys on the trees and fruit. Do not confine 

 Wie flock in an orchard, or any other plot of limited area, at thfis time of 

 year, but let them have theih- liberty and they will make the mos.t «f 

 e'^ory opportunity, thereby reducing the cost of keeping ,thefm and 

 increasing the rapidity of< t4iejr growth and development. 



