must not be added until a week later than directed 

 for hens' eggs. There is a general opinion that 

 young turks are hard to raise, but the great diffi- 

 culty is that few persons know how to treat them, 

 and others do not have a large range for them from 

 the time they " shoot the red " (the head begins to 

 turn red) until they get their growth. Young tur- 

 keys must be kept dry until they show the red. 

 Running in wet grass, or exposure to rain, will re- 

 tard their growth and prove fatal to many. Brood 

 them as you would chickens. Their food for the 

 first week should be stale bread crumbs (not sour) 

 soaked in milk. Broken water crackers soaked in 

 milk for a variety. Give them all the sweet milk 

 they will drink (by "sweet" we mean new milk). 

 After the first week give them all the clabber they 

 will eat, but do not scald it. In addition give once 

 a day a small feed of well cooked corn meal, some- 

 times in the shape of mush, and again as baked corn 

 bread. By draining the clabber through a cheese- 

 cloth strainer it becomes nice and crumbly, and is 

 easily picked up. Keep them in brooding yards 

 until about eight weeks old, then give as much 

 range as possible. After eight weeks give no sloppy 

 food, but good grain corn or buckwheat at night, 

 and a variety of food in the morning. They will 

 gather at least half of their living in the insect sea- 

 son if they have good place to forage. A turkey is 

 unhappy in close confinement and will not fatten in 

 a pen like other fowls. Liberty and good feeding 

 will give the weight to a well bred bird. 



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