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let turkeys roost in the same place all the time. I make my turkeys 

 change their roosting place every few nights. I think when they roost 

 in the same place too long it causes disease among the young turkeys. 

 I always make them roost some place where no stock will disturb them 

 during the night. When they are six weeks old I begin to feed them 

 Kaffir corn, then as soon as possible, I get them to eating whole grain 

 corn. I first begin by feeding them small grain corn. At this age I 

 feed them twice a day, early in the morning and late in the afternoon. 

 When they are fed late in the afternoon I think it will induce them to 

 come home to roost. I keep this up until the first of October, then I 

 begin feeding them all they will eat, twice a day, until they are 

 marketed. J. M. Stone, Columbia, Mo. 



A yard for turkeys in the breeding season is almost a necessity. 

 This year I have a new orchard fence of American wire, four feet 

 high, with barbed wire on top We made our yard smaller and turned 

 part of it into the turkey park, which gives us two acres of range with 

 some evergreens and lilac bushes in one corner, making a fine place 

 for the turkey coops. Early in the spring I commence feeding just 

 inside of the gate in this yard and turning them out again about 10 

 a. m., and in this way they become accustomed to the yard and don't 

 seem to mind it when they are penned up. I set the first eggs under 

 chicken hens and generally make the turkey hens lay the second time 

 before letting them set. I always give the poults to a turkey hen to 

 raise. They will take them if they have been sitting only a day or two, 

 if you take one after dark and slip under the hen. I leave it there 

 until the afternoon of the second day, when I put the others down 

 with her in a pen made in front of a coop. I take them away from 

 chicken hens as fast as they hatch, wrap in flannel temporarily, and 

 keep in the house until ready to put with turkey hens. Mrs. C. S. 

 Bohrer, Bellflower, Mo. 



White Holland Turkey. 



The middle of April each year finds us with a nice lot of M. B. 

 turkey eggs, from a healthy, vigorous flock. 'Tis then time to set them, 

 so we get all the trusty chicken hens needed to cover the amount of 

 eggs on hand, giving each hen nine eggs. Set them in a quiet place 



