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what ails him and what to do for him? 

 He is a very valuable bird and I am 

 anxious to have him get well. His 

 usual feed is bran, barley meal, al- 

 falfa meal and beef scrap in the morn- 

 ing and wheat and Kaffir corn at 

 night, with plenty of grit and oyster 

 shell. Mrs. G. H. B. 



Answer I think your turkey re- 

 quires more green food than you are 

 giving him as you only mention al- 

 falfa meal. Give him now, 3.. quinine 

 pill (two grains) every night for a 

 week. Add charcoal and chopped on- 

 ions to his mash in the morning, and 

 plenty of green food once or twice a 

 day. Give him as large a range as 

 possible, or if you cannot give him 

 range, let him out on your own lawn 

 for two hours before sundown. What 

 he needs is fresh green food and 

 chopped onions for the liver tonic. 



up the trees to the turkeys. Pour a 

 little stream of crude petroleum at 

 the foot of the .trees to keep off the 

 ticks. 



Turkey's Chickenpox I have some 

 young turkeys several months old. 

 On the heads of some are round 

 things like warts; on one they are 

 sore looking and are also on each 

 knee-joint of the legs. The turkeys 

 don't appear sick. We have rubbed, 

 the heads with axle-grease, as once 

 before that seemed to help. What is 

 the cause of this disease? How can 

 one cure or prevent it and are the 

 fowls good for food if they recover? 



My turkeys have free range and 

 have had plenty of animal food in the 

 shape of bugs, etc., all summer, also 

 of course, green food in as large a 

 quantity as they cared for. I have 

 only fed them wheat. Chicken ticks, 

 these flat bugs, are bad here, but the, 

 turkeys roost outside, so should not 

 be bothered much. M. A. 



Answer Your turkeys have chick- 

 enpox. It comes from a microbe 

 which gains entrance under the skin 

 from some slight abrasion, such as a 

 scratch, or the bite of an insect. It 

 is very prevalent during the fall, but 

 except in the case of very young 

 chickens, is easily curable, and the 

 remedies you are using will effect a 

 speedy cure. 



Carbolic salve, or carbolized vase- 

 line is the usual cure or you can 

 wash the spots in hot soapsuds to get 

 off the scab and then grease just only 

 the spots. The carbolic acid in the 

 salve kills the microbe. The turkeys 

 are perfectly fit for food. You had 

 better be sure the ticks do not crawl 



Turkeys Will you kindly tell how 

 to raise little turkeys without any 

 milk, or can't it be done? We value 

 your writing very much. H. D. C. 



Answer The milk that we use in 

 feeding little turkeys, either as plain 

 skim milk for them to drink or as a 

 curd for them to eat, is given be- 

 cause it is found to be the best substi- 

 tute for the insects that would be Na- 

 ture's diet for the little turkeys. The 

 next best substitute is hard boiled 

 eggs and after that ground-up meat, 

 either raw or cooked. 



Here in Los Angeles we can get 

 the granulated and the dried milk and 

 these make a good feed, both for tur- 

 keys and chickens. I should think 

 you could get either of these at the 

 poultry supply houses in Santa Cruz. 



Sick Gobbler I write again in re- 

 gard to a fine gobbler. He was 

 hatched last May. He has been sick 

 about ten days. Just sits around and 

 does not walk much. Eats very little, 

 and his droppings are nearly all white 

 and small in quantity. His food has 

 been rolled barley, wheat, and we 

 have nine acres in green barley. He 

 has plenty of clean, pure water and 

 is not lousey, as I dust my turkeys 

 with insecticide every week. When 

 he first drooped around I gave him 

 some liver pills, but he does not get 

 much better. I hope you may be able 

 to tell me something that will help 

 him as I should feel very badly to 

 lose him. Mrs. S. H. J. 



Answer I would advise you first 

 to stop dusting that gobbler with in- 

 sect powder, as.it may be disagreeing 

 with him. Secondly, I would give 

 him small liver pills, and at the same 

 time, for at least a week, a pill of 

 one or two grains of quinine every 

 night. Also notice his droppings, if 

 possible, because he may have in- 

 testinal worms, although the symp- 

 toms are more like kidney trouble. 



Tapeworm in Turkeys I have over 

 100 turkeys that seem to be healthy 

 but do not grow as they should. I 

 find now they are full of long worms, 



