300 PROFITS IN POULTRY. 
delions, onion tops (these last sparingly), turnip tops, 
etc. Buckwheat, cracked corn and wheat may be given 
at night, after they get large enough. Do not leave 
food around. Feed each time only so much as will be 
eaten up clean. After the first two weeks give sour 
milk freely. After they can get insects, no other meat 
than the milk will be necessary. The particular enemies 
of the young turkeys are lice and diarrhoea, but both 
may be conquered. 
During the feathering period, the chicks must have 
plenty of bone- and feather-forming material. This is 
supplied best in the form of finely chopped meat and 
green bones. A good bone mill or cutter is indispensable 
when much poultry 
; is kept. See that 
ee: they have grit, in 
the form of pound- 
ed crockery, oyster 
Ie i} shells and clean 
—————SS*~S gravel. The best 
ae 
oS 
Nee 
FIG. 118, sHED FoR sHELTERING Lirrte thing I ever used 
TURBEYE AD NIGHT: was small sea shells 
from the sea coast of Connecticut. They cost about a 
dollar per barrel. 
In addition to the foregoing, the following hints 
brought out by the most careful inquiry by the Rhode 
Island Experiment Station, of the methods pursued by 
the best turkey specialists in that State, are of interest: 
Little turkeys do best if kept and fed separate from 
fowls and chickens. They are weak and tender créa- 
tures, and as they grow very fast, require an abundance 
of nutritive and easily digested food, but it must not be 
too concentrated. Too rich food, too much food that is 
hard to digest, or a lack of green food, will cause bowel 
trouble. Little turkeys require food oftener than little 
chickens. Feed little and often. (tive cooked food 
