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pip comes on, which muft be cured with fine 

 wheaten bread and frefh butter mixed with 

 fom.e herb-grafs or rue. On this kind of food 

 he will live until he is a month old -, when he 

 muft be fed with whole oatmeal and milk, and 

 care muft be taken that the milk be perfe6lly 

 new and fweet, or your turkeys die in a few 

 hours. When two months old, they will live 

 upon fmall wheat, and by the time harveft 

 comes on will provide for themfelves at your 

 expence. If the craw of a turkey were taken 

 out in the evening about Chriftmas, the corn 

 mcafured that would be found in it, and the 

 quantity multiplied by thcnumber of days fince 

 the turkey attained the age of two months, the 

 produ6t would flartle the farm.er — without ta- 

 king bread and milk into the account, which is 

 no trifling matter. Few turkeys are fit for the 

 kitchen but what coft the farmer from twenty 

 to thirty fhillings, although he fells them at 

 market for four and fix-pence, or five fhillings. 

 We will fuppofe that thirteen have been the 

 brood hatched. The breeder may think him- 

 felf fortunate if from fix to ten are raifed. — 

 Then come two to jfhare in the profit of what 



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