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account. No parti cular trouble will be experienced in raising 

 the turkey poultry if proper care is exercised to maintain those 

 conditions necessary to the health of all poultry. It has been 

 aptly said that the greatest enemies of turkey poults are un- 

 cooked food and morning dew. They must be kept in during 

 all storms, and not set at liberty until the sun has dried all 

 moisture from the grass. This with the further precaution of 

 feeding all food cooked or well scalded, which is the best plan 

 with all poultry, will give general success. After their long 

 quill feathers have grow, and they have "shot the red," that is, 

 grown the fleshy protuberance over the beak, which generally 

 occurs at the age of a month or six weeks, no further trouble 

 will be met as this is the most critical period. 



In conclusion, it will be proper to call attention to the fact, 

 that to obtain the highest success in the poultry business, one 

 must have a natural fondness for fowls, and a happy faculty 

 of anticipating their needs, in making them comfortable even to 

 the minutest detail. Speaking for ourselves, we can say that 

 our interest in the feathered tribe increases as time elapses ; 

 and, that to us, it is very interesting to observe the great 

 variety of breeds of domestic poultry in their present state of 

 perfection. Especially when we consider, it is undoubtedly the 

 case that man, working with the law of variation, natural to all 

 animated life, has originated so great diversity from our com- 

 mon original stock, the wild jurgal fowl of India. 



FARMERS INSTITUTES. 



The Society held six Institutes during the season of 1888-89, 

 on as many days forenoon and afternoon, at which the following 

 subjects were opened by carefully prepared essays, and freely 

 discussed afterwards, viz : 



