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month old, they may be brought into the fields, and every 

 o^er kind of food totally left off, except what they get 

 there. 



Vetches, both wild and cultivated, are poison for turkey- 

 pouts, and a superabundance of lettuce is injurious and relax- 

 ing to them. The immoderate use of it may be fatal. Aro- 

 matic herbs in general are to be given them in preference, and 

 all such as are more calculated to stimulate than to cool. 



There are other plants in the fields which are also preju- 

 dicial to the health of turkeys, and some which, for them as 

 well as geese and ducks, are a true poison ; such as hen- 

 bane, the great digitalis with blue flowers, and cicuta. 

 These plants should be pointed out to the conductors of the 

 flocks of turkeys, that they may pluck them up wherever 

 they are to be found in the pasture. 



When the young turkeys have just broken the shell, the 

 head is covered with a kind of down, and they have neither 

 glandulous flesh, nor barbies. It is only at six weeks or two 

 months old that these parts begin to develop. The time of 

 this development is as critical for them as that of dentition 

 for children, and some wine should then be mixed with their 

 food, to strengthen them. Some time before this takes place, 

 they begin to perch. 



It has been said, but without foundation, that the tempera- 

 ment of turkeys does not differ from that of the common 

 fowl ; that their maladies are the same, and that similar 

 modes of cure must be employed for them. It is certain, that 

 when taken proper care of, nourished suflliciently, and lodged 

 in airy and wholesome habitations, these birds may be pre- 

 served from many accidents to which they would otherwise be 

 liable : still it cannot be denied, that though belonging to the 

 same family as cocks and hens, they are exposed to affections 

 peculiar to themselves. 



In the first place, they are, beyond all comparison, infinitely 



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