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two of these boards so as to form another triangle, Fig. 
115, adjacent to the site of the old one. By the time 
the chicks are old enough to jump over the boards, they 
may be allowed to wander about with their mother, after 
the morning dew is off. After that time, three feedings 
a day are sufficient, and when they are weaned, feeding 
at morning and night only is enough. With a good 
range over wheat stubble, which they can have in the 
Western States and territories, and plenty of Jie 
pers, no otherg 7; 
feeding is neces- fii} 
sary after they are 
educated to come 
home to roost. 
Mr. Barber 
writes: ‘Our 
turkeys lay and 
sitin large, roomy 
coops, two and 
one-half feet long 
by two feet wide, 
two feet high in iG: 21% PEN 70 ConviNe LITTLE TURKEYS, 
wo teet high im UNTIL OLD ENOUGH TO JUMP OVER; 
front, witha slope MOTHER AT LIBERTY. 
of six inches to the rear; we keep the turkey hens, with 
their broods, in a lot, on short grass.” 
Instead of cooping brooding turkeys to prevent them 
from roaming too much, W. P. Lewis, who raises 90 per 
cent of his hatch, fastens the hen with a cord toa peg 
in the ground, after the manner cows are tied out to 
pasture. After being pegged down for a few days, the 
hens are ‘‘shingled,” so they cannot fly over walls and 
fences, and are then allowed free range. In ‘‘shin- 
gling,” or “boarding,” turkeys, a thin board or shingle, 
in which holes are bored, is fastened across the shoulders 
of the bird by soft cords, tape or strips of cloth. When 
of the proper shape and the boards are in the right 
