A SELF-SUPPORTING HOME 



ticated than the Bronze. We covered an 

 open shed with wire netting, made two nests 

 out of half barrels, screening them thor- 

 oughly with cedar boughs, putting up a roost 

 which measured ten inches around ; then pro- 

 cured a trio of birds, and kept them shut up 

 for three weeks, at the expiration of which 

 time the wire netting was removed after 

 dark one night. It sufficed; the birds al- 

 ways roosted and laid there, never wander- 

 ing far away. I have been told by a most 

 reliable informant that thin roosts on which 

 heavy birds do not feel safe are most fre- 

 quently the cause of turkeys preferring to 

 sleep in trees. 



I adopted the plan of setting the eggs, 

 which take twenty-nine days to incubate 

 under ordinary hens. Having no old stone 

 ground on my farm, a strip of high ground 

 partly covered with brush was fenced 

 as a compound; and from a near-by stone- 

 crusher several loads of waste gravel were 

 carted and deposited in the most sheltered 



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