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venient, partially hidden by brush. Turkeys begin to lay in April, and 
if two or three incline to one nest, set another box at right angles and 
adjoining the one they covet. Take away the eggs every night, and 
place them in parcels of sixteen or eighteen. - Set several turkeys at 
the same time, as half a dozen flocks can be as easily cared for as one, 
and those hatched and taken off about the same time usually run 
together without fighting. As soon as they leave the nest they should 
have a yard twelve feet square for every two turkeys, by setting up 
boards, a foot wide, endwise. The mother must be washed with tobac- 
co-juice, and the young chickens dusted with snuff, to kill the lice; or 
sulphur and snuff, mixed in equal paris, sprinkled over the nest soon 
after the turkey begins to sit, and, as opportunity affords, dust the tur- 
key herself. The young ones must be fed sparingly, at intervals of an 
hour, with coarse-ground Indian meal mixed with scalded sour milk 
curds, and fine-chopped hard-boiled eggs; in six or eight weeks they 
will be able to master a whole kernel. They require watching for two 
or three weeks after being turned into the fields, lest they wander into 
heavy, wet grass and perish; and should be driven up every night and 
shut into a stable or barn. They will soon get accustomed to coming 
home, and in due time will aspire to a roost. 5 . 
A good combination in raising geese is one gander to two or three 
geese. In winter they require little or no shelter, and by early spring 
must have access to arunning stream. Each goose requires a little 
house of its own, with five or six inches of dry horse: manure spread 
over the bottom, and a quantity of hay cut to two or three inches in 
length. The goslings appear in twenty-eight days, and if the spring 
grass is started, all they need is shelter from heavy, cold winds. If 
there is no grass they should have ordinary corn meal dough, and dur- 
ing the summer they should be turned into a pasture of short, tender 
grass, having a pond or running stream. An artificial pond, six feet by 
ten, its bottom covered with sand and pebbles, to the depth of two or 
three inches, is ample for a dozen geese or five times as many goslings, 
if the water is changed daily. 
Ducks are hardy, and will eat almost anything. They need a range, 
and must have water. Four ducks are allowed toone drake. They should 
have a lodging place separate from barn-yard fowls. They begin to lay 
early in the spring; and the period of incubation varies from twenty- 
six to thirty days. 
HArRIS ON THE PiG: breeding, rearing, management, and improvement. By Joseph 
Harris, Moreton Farm, Rochester, New York. 12mo., 250 pp. New York: Orange 
Judd & Co., 1870. 
In this work the author endeavors to show that farmers can obtain 
more meat from a well-bred pig, in proportion to the food consumed, 
than from any other domestic animal. Paradoxical as it may seem, he 
asserts that consumers in our large cities are obliged to pay more for 
flesh-meat than it is intrinsically worth, while farmers, with the excep- 
tion of those who produce beef and mutton of the very best quality, 
make nothing by raising and feeding cattle and sheep. While they re- 
ceive more for their meat than it is really worth, it has cost them more 
than they get for it. The remedy for this state of things will be found 
in more thorough cultivation, in growing better grasses, in keeping 
better stock, and particularly in more liberal feeding. 
A farmer who once uses a thorough-bred boar, and adopts a system 
of liberal feeding, will find that he can produce better pork, at a far less 
cost, than when he uses acommon boar. The author considers it im- 
