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not in a trough so that in picking up their food the gravel that adheres to 

 it will aid their digestive organs to perform their functions. Never feed 

 Indian meal in an uncooked state, for it is liable to bake in the crop, causing 

 death in a very short time. " Water should be placed in shallow dishes, or old tin 

 pie-pans, near the coop, so that the young can satisfy their thirst whenever 

 inclined. At six weeks or two months old the young turkeys may, as a 

 general thing, be considered out of danger from over-feeding, etc., and should 

 then be fed cracked corn, boiled potatoes, refuse from the table, buckwheat, 

 and fresh boiled meat, occasionally, in small quantities. 



TO FATTEN TURKEYS. 



In regard to fattening turkeys on charcoal, a writer in the Germantown 

 Telegraph says : " I have recently made an experiment, and must say that 



DOMESTIC TURKEY. 



the result surprised me, as I had always been rather skeptical upon the sub- 

 ject. Four turkeys were confined in a pen, and fed on meal, boiled potatoes 

 and oats. Four others, of the same brood, were also at the same time con- 

 fined in another pen, and fed daily on the same articles, but with one pint of 

 very finely pulverized charcoal, mixed with their food mixed meal and 



