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where nothing can bother. Keep grit, grain, fresh water, and a dust 

 bath in their reach, after previously giving them a good dusting with 

 Persian insect powder and sulphur, equal parts. We do not let the 

 turkey hens set until after they lay their second clutch of eggs, after 

 which time we use them for hatching instead of chicken hens. Usually 

 about the time the eggs under the chicken hens are due to hatch, 

 some of the turkey hens get broody for the second time, and if they 

 have set only two or three days, they will own and brood the poults, 

 if one is slipped under them after dark. Do not give more than fifteen 

 poults to each turkey hen, for after they are a few weeks old, the hen 

 will wander away and may get caught out in a heavy rain and wind 

 storm. 



\\ r e have several V-shaped brood pens, with coop at small end, 

 that we keep poults and hen in on rainy days, and until dew goes off 

 in mornings, and try to have them in or near the pens by five o'clock 

 each evening, for if allowed to stay out before the poults are large 

 enough to fly up to roost, varmints may destroy the flock. 



We give their first feed in brood pens (after they are thirty-six 

 hours old), of good corn bread, fresh cottage cheese and hard boiled 

 eggs (chopped very fine), mix all together, and dust with black pepper. 

 Do not give more than a heaping teaspoonful to fifteen poults, five 

 times daily. After the first three days, begin to very slowly increase 

 the amount of feed, and chop up onion tops, dandelion and lettuce 

 leaves, with scissors, mixing this and a good brand of chick feed with 

 other feed. Do not fail to give plenty of the green feeds named above, 

 as they are the best health preservatives we ever used for turkeys. Give 

 the poults sand and oyster shell, also plenty of fresh water in drinking 

 fountains or saucer, with an inserted tomato can in it to keep them 

 out of the water, as dampness is fatal to them. Last, but by no means 

 least, is the lice problem. We feel safe in asserting ;( since our twenty 

 years' experience in the turkey business) that lice are directly or, in-; 

 directly the cause of a larger per cent of deaths in young turkeys than 

 any other one cause. Give them, once or twice a week, a good dusting 

 with some reliable brand of lice powder, and occasionally (if weatherj 

 is fine) give them a greasing at quill ends of flight feathers in wings' 

 and around the vent with larcj. and coal oil, equal parts, mixed to-' 

 gether. Keep right after the lice, dusting and lightly greasing the 

 poults, until too large to handle easily, after which time they will do 

 the dusting if given freshly plowed or spaded ground. Mrs. Alice 

 Curnutt, Montserrat, Mo. 



If the weather is fine, let them out the third day a few hours, from 

 ten in the morning to four in the afternoon, then put them back. When 

 a week old, dust them well with insect powder. Don't ever give them 

 more feed than they eat up in a few minutes. Keep them up in rainy 

 weather and don't let them out till the dew has dried off. Give them 

 lots of green feed, such as dandelion, onion tops and lettuce chopped 

 and mixed with fresh curd and rolled oats. Gradually mix in a little 

 clean wheat, and after a month old, we let them have free range, but 

 see that they come to the orchard to roost at night. Mrs. H. R. 

 Schlotzhauer, Pilot Grove, Mo. 



