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in a little ground bone to help them make frame or 

 gave a meal of chopped liver mixed with rolled oats 

 and chopped onion, but I am not sure that this was 

 any improvement. The main thing in feeding young 

 turkeys, I am satisfied, is, not what you feed them 

 (providing always they get onion), but how much, 

 and next year I shall feed less than I did this year. 

 Turkeys that have ample range need very, very little. 

 Whatever is or is not fed, it is safest not to feed 

 corn in any form until the poults are at least three 

 months old. In the Middle West many breeders do 

 use it successfully, but in this climate turkeys cannot 

 stand it and it is not so cheap that there is any object 

 to be gained by using it. I feed a little kafir corn 

 just for variety after the poults are three months 

 old, but it seems to be best not to feed Indian corn 

 till about a month before Thanksgiving. 



COOPS 



Any open front coop that would be suitable for a 

 hen and her chicks will do for young turkeys, only 

 it must be high enough for the hen to stand up in 

 and move about comfortably. I have found a dry 

 goods box about three feet deep, three feet high 

 and three feet wide a good brood coop for both chicks 

 and turkeys. To the front of this I attach a wire 

 run three feet wide and six feet long. At first the 

 hen is kept in the wooden coop and the young ones 

 are not allowed outside the wire run, but after a few 

 days, depending on the weather, the hen is confined 

 only by the wire run and the turks have their lib- 

 erty. When the mother is a turkey hen, it seems 

 wise to let her go where she will after three or four 

 weeks, but a chicken hen is a better mother if she 

 is confined. 



The coop should be moved to clean ground every 



