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keys in wholesale way, and entirely avoids any trouble 

 from thoir wandering away by keeping them in a large pas- 

 ture and 01 chard, fenced with the Page twenty-five-bar deer 

 park fence, eighty inches high. Many of the young poults 

 are hatched at home in incubators and raised in brooders, 

 and others are hatched on outside farms and brought 

 home in the fall. Their feed is made as nearly as possi- 

 ble to conform to the diet of turkeys roaming at large, by 

 giving butchers' scraps that have been run through a bone 

 mill, to take the place of insects, plenty of succulent 

 green stuff, and a good supply of broken limestone grit. 

 By careful account, Mr. Dawley finds that turkeys which 

 are kept in partial confinement will lay on flesh at a less 

 cost per pound than those which roam without restraint, 

 and the quality is much better. One of the most profita- 

 ble lessons learned from Mr. Dawley 's experience is, that 

 those who have had to give up turkey raising because of 

 the damage their birds have done to berries, grain or 

 other growing crops, can again take it up, and by build- 

 ing a park with this Page deer park fence, keep their flocks 

 enclosed during the season that they would do damage, and 

 let them out after the crops are harvested. They will not 

 fly out from a ten-acre enclosure unless by mistake. The 

 eighty-eight-inch fence keeps them, except that one or 

 two may occasionally rise near the center of the field 

 and soar so far that they come down on the outside. This 

 fence is very durable and remarkably cheap. Its merits 

 for fencing in turkey pastures should be known by all 

 raisers of this profitable fowl. The Page Woven Wire 

 Fence Co., of Adrian, Mich., also make wire fencing of 

 every sort and description for every possible purpose, and 

 will be happy to give particulars, free of cost, to all who 

 will write to them at Adrian, Mich., U. S. A. 



One of the most valued parts of this turkey ranch is a 

 series of small yards made with the Page wire fence, in 

 which the laying hen turkeys are kept during the breed- 

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