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MRS. BASLEY'S WESTERN POULTRY BOOK 



probably tape worms. What shall I 

 do? Mrs. L. B. D. 



Answer If your turkeys have tape- 

 worms, the best remedy I know is 

 male-fern (felix mas). It may be 

 used in the form of a powder; (dose 

 thirty grains to one dram) or of liquid 

 extract (dose fifteen to thirty drops). 

 It should be given in the morning and 

 evening before feeding. Oil of tur- 

 pentine is an excellent remedy for the 

 common round worm; dose one to 

 three teaspoonsful in an equal amount 

 of castor oil. Feeding stewed garlic 

 or raw onions will help the cure. 



Shipping Turkeys Can turkey eggs 

 be hatched successfuly in an incuba- 

 tor or are they more apt to die? 

 Will it hurt the little turkeys to be 

 carried on the car any great distance? 

 Mrs. A. P. 



Answer Turkey eggs can be 

 hatched in an incubator, if you don't 

 mix them with other eggs, other- 

 wise they do better under the hen. 

 They can be raised in brooders, and 

 it will not hurt them to travel on the 

 cars if they do not get chilled. 



How Many Toms? I want to ask 

 you how many turkey toms I should 

 have for 24 hens. I have tw^o fine 

 toms weighing about 22 pounds each. 

 Their beards are well developed and 

 they appear to be very good birds. 

 Will those two be enough for 24 

 hens? Mrs. C. B. L. 



Answer It really would be better 

 to have three toms, but under the cir- 

 cumstances I would rather risk hav- 

 ing two good toms than to buy a 

 third of unknown quality. 



The rule is one yearling torn to ten 

 hens. One torn will do for twenty 

 hens some times, but ten hens is about 

 the best number. 



Liver Trouble We are in trouble 

 with our little turkeys, and would, 

 like to ask you to help us. They were 

 fine, strong fellows until a few days 

 ago, when four of them suddenly 

 died. I just noticed two of them, a 

 little droopy in the afternoon, and 

 four were dead the next morning. 

 There was the slightest touch of 

 diarrhoea noticeable, and I immediate- 

 ly put a little gerrnazone in their 

 water, and they have had it for sev- 

 eral days. They have no signs of it 

 now, but four more died last 

 night, and several others are droop- 

 ing. We made an examination this 

 morning and found the liver all 

 blotched and spotted all over in dark 

 rings. That is all we could find 

 wrong. The gizzard was healthy and 

 full of grit and seemed perfect and 

 in order. Mrs. A. H. 



Answer The spotted liver is all 

 that killed them. It denotes conges- 

 tion of the liver. This is usually 

 brought on by wrong feeding, or over- 

 feeding, but it also comes from their 

 taking cold; either from being too 

 warm at night, under the chicken hen, 

 getting them hot and sweaty, and 

 then coming out in the morning into 

 the cool, foggy air, which gives them 

 a sudden chill. This would affect the 

 liver, and make even the proper food 

 disagree with them. They may take 

 cold and get a chill affecting the liver, 

 from running in damp alfalfa; or the 

 chicken hen may drag them about and 

 make the exercise too much, and this 

 also would weaken their liver and 

 make them susceptible to cold, which 

 would affect their liver. I can only 

 give you these suggestions, as I do 

 not know all your conditions. One of 

 the best remedies for diarrhoea in 

 both chickens and little turkeys, is 

 rice boiled in milk, with a tablespoon- 

 ful of ground cinnamon to every pint 

 of milk. Rice given even dry will 

 help in a case of this kind. 



