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will from my hand. When the little ones are a few hours 

 old I place them, with their mother, in a slatted coop at 

 once, giving them water in a shallow vessel filled with 

 small stones, so the little ones could only dip their bills 

 in. This I place outside the coop, in reach of the mother. 

 I then feed them with carefully curdled milk, and a little 

 wheat bran mixed in. When two or three days old I 

 grease their heads and necks, to destroy lice, for there is 

 always lice on them after being hatched by a hen. As 

 age increases, I increase the quantity of bran in the feed. 

 Boiled potatoes mashed with good oats, and wheat bran 

 thinned to a mush, may be fed several times daily, scat- 

 tered on the clean grass. Drive them into a loft at night, 

 when a few weeks old, and they will learn to roost there 

 and be safe. My first brood of two hundred fine turkeys 

 were raised many years ago, and sold for eighteen cents 

 dressed. They averaged two dollars each, bringing me 

 the snug sum of four hundred dollars. 



ONTARIO METHODS IN TURKEY RAISING. 



MRS. JOHNSON A. GREEN, LEEDS COUNTY. 



I have raised turkeys for the last twenty years, with 

 good success, having flocks of from forty to eighty birds 

 each year. The first requisite is good birds. I prefer 

 Bronze. I select the best young hens from my flock, and 

 if I have any old ones that have proved good mothers, keep 

 them. I keep five or six hens and a gobbler. I look 

 around in the fall, and get a good one from improved 

 breed if possible, never keeping one from the same flock 

 as the hens. I keep them in a house by themselves dur- 

 ing winter, feeding liberally with mixed grain, and give 

 pure water to drink, warming it in the coldest weather. 

 They do not require as warm a house as hens, but want 

 light, and prefer a high roost. I let them out for a run 

 every day, except in stormy weather. I think keeping 

 them tame during winter, never allowing them to be 



