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KaisJng Turkeys. — The difficulty of raising txirkeys is a serious draw- 

 back to the profits of the business, but the exercise of care will obviate the 

 difficulty. At first, and for about six weeks, turkey chicks are very delicate, 

 BO much so that even a warm shower will finish them. If they can be kept 

 alive for about two months they begin to assume a more robust character, 

 and will soon become the very hardiest of poultry. The chicks, therefore, 

 should be provided with shelter, and the shed which furnishes this would 

 be all the better if it had a wooden floor. The best feed for the first week is 

 hard boiled eggs, mixed with minced dandelion. It is thought the dande- 

 lion serves to keep the bowels in order. At all events the young birds pre- 

 fer dandeUon to all other green food. At the end of the first week add gradu- 

 ally to the boiled eggs bread crumbs and barley meal, constantly lessening 

 the amount of egg until at the end of three weeks it may be entirely discon- 

 tinued. Now give boiled potatoes as a part of the food, and a small portion 

 of some small grain may be added, in fact making the food very much Uke 

 that of other poultry. If fed in this way and kept dry, they will come along 

 all right. 



How to Raise Duclcs. — A writer who thinks unlimited water a bad thing 

 for young ducks, recommends the following treatment for them: "Ducks 

 are easily hatched, and, if properly managed, they are easily raised — much 

 more so than chickens or turkeys. Probably the worst thing for ducklings 

 is the first thing they usually receive, and that is unlimited range and water 

 to swim in. The little things are, in a measure, nude, and should be kept in 

 pens with dry soil floors or stone pavements that can be washed down daily. 

 No kind ot poultry will succeed on bare boards. All the water they need is 

 best furnished by burying an old pot in the ground and laying a round piece 

 of board on top of the water with room for the ducks to stick their heads in 

 and fish out the com that is put in the water. This amuses them and does 

 no harm, while, if allowed to go off to ponds or streams, they are very liable 

 to fall a prey to vermin in some shape, or to get their bodies wet and chilled 

 from remaining too long in the water. Their pens must be kept clean if they 

 are expected to thrive. 



Gapes in Fo-wls. — The parasite that causes gapes in fowls is of a red 

 color and about three-quarters of an inch long. The remedies are numer- 

 ous, but chiefly consist in removing the worms. One way is to moisten a 

 feather from which all but the tip of the web has been stripped, with oil, 

 salt water, or a weak soliition of carbolic acid, introduce it into the wind- 

 I)ipe, twist it around once or twice, and then withdraw it. A teaspoonful of 

 sulphur mixed with a quart of corn meal and water, and fed to the fowls 

 morning and evening, is also a good remedy. 



The Poultry World says: As soon as we discover any symptoms of gapes 

 among our chickens, we know that there are worms— very small red worms 

 — in their windpipes, and we give them camphor in their drinking vessels 

 strong enough to make quite a taste of the camphor. Then, if any get the 

 disease quite badly before wo discover it, wo force a pill of gum camphor 

 down the throat, about the size of a small pea, and the fumes of that dose 

 will kill the worms. No kind of worms can live in camphor; hence, camphor 

 must be a powerful vermifuge. 



A Connecticut poiiltry raiser writes: "Perhaps some who raise fowls will 

 he interested in my experiment tried last season on a chicken with the gapee. 

 I gave it about a quarter of a teaspoonful of kerosene, and as it seemed bet- 



