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to raise. After a few days your other turkeys will lay another setting 

 of eggs. In feeding, give at first hard boiled eggs with bread moistened 

 with milk, not too wet, and freshly prepared at each feeding. It is 

 quite a scheme to begin saving bread for them during the long winter, 

 when so little is eaten. You may have a friend or so in town who is in- 

 terested in your turkeys, who will be glad to save you pieces of bread, 

 and in return invite the party to come and help eat a turkey 

 on Thanksgiving. Have each piece of bread thoroughly dried 

 by placing in oven; then drop it in a cotton bag, as paper 

 gathers moisture, which will cause it to mold. Should you have a 

 baking which did not quite come up to the mark, slice this up and dry. 

 This will keep a long time, and one can with but little trouble have 

 enough to start quite a flock. Have a place for them to roost, and g-^t 

 them on it as young as you can; even should they fall off, put them up 

 again. Do not feed too often — five times a day when young. Put their 

 feed on board, or clean plate, and keep clean. Look out for lice when 

 about four weeks old. These will be found on top of wings in large 

 feathers. Take a little kerosene in a dish, and with a feather slightly 

 brush each one. Care should be taken to use but very little oil. Never 

 put kerosene on eggs. Should they become lousy before hatching, re- 

 move eggs carefully to clean nest, putting insect powder on the turkey. 

 Sulphur is also good. Turkeys are great foragers, and will pick up their 

 living. To fatten, boil pumpkin and stir thick with corn meal; feed this 

 very hot, as turkeys do not like it cold. They are as dainty as some 

 hired men. Do not feed too much corn, or begin to fatten 'till four 

 weeks before killing. It is said turkeys and turnips never begin to grow 

 until frost comes. Should they steal their nests, or lay where you do 

 not want them to set, you can easily move them to a better place. Ger. 

 their new nest where you want it, and after dark move the turkey, 

 after which keep her shut up for a few days, and she will set every time 

 just where you put her. Always be kind to them when setting, strok- 

 ing them with your hand, and when hatching time comes, they can be 

 easily handled without any trouble. Once I saw a lady who was pound- 

 ing a turkey, that was hatching a brood, with a board. Of course the 

 turkey resented such treatment, and the lady thought she was cross. 



TOULOUSE GEESE. 



Mrs. J. H. Shurtleft. in Farmers' Tribune. 



Having read with interest a few articles in The Farmer about Tou- 

 louse geese, I wish to give a little of my experience with them. 



A few years ago I bought my first pair. During the first season the 

 goose laid thirty-two eggs; twenty-five before wanting to sit. I did no', 

 let her sit. After a short rest, she laid seven more. I think this a re- 

 markable record for a young goose, as eighteen is considered a good 

 average. A large per cent of the eggs were fertile. From this pair I 



