REGULARITY IN THE HOURS OF MEALS. 579 



For each kind of poultry there should be a separate place 

 for incubation and for rearing the young. 



For young turkey-poults, the best food during the first 

 three weeks of their lives is hard-boiled eggs, minced. With 

 young chickens this kind of food may be stopped after two 

 weeks. When soft food is given to turkey-poults, they are very 

 apt to suffer from scouring, and to die off. The hard-boiled 

 eggs prevent scouring, and keep the bowels in good condition. 

 After two weeks the chickens, and after three weeks the 

 turkey-poults, should eat hard warm oatmeal porridge and 

 grains of rice. Ducklings should have soft food, but should 

 not be allowed to go into the water until they are three weeks 

 old. Goslings thrive best on tender grass in a warm exposure. 

 Care must be taken to keep them on their feet, as when they 

 fall on the back, as they are apt to do, they die. They die also 

 when drenched with rain. 



It is not necessary for poultry only, to insure their thriving 

 condition, that they should be fed at regular times, but for all 

 kinds of animals. There are none that, when the usual hour 

 for food is allowed to pass by, will not show their discontent 

 by loud wailings a stinging rebuke to the careless farmer. 



