200 MY OWN EXPERIENCE. 



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guard for the food devoted to the chickens ; 

 they have access to it through the wire, and 

 they only. 



Goslings and ducHings, alone of all young 

 stock, should have food always before them; they 

 eat little at a time, and (for exhibition), require 

 to be pushed on and tempted. 



I have no special houses, coops, or troughs for 

 Turkeys. They require none; but live ia a semi- 

 wild state after the first month, during which 

 the young poults associate with the chickens 

 — the mother being confined in the coop before- 

 mentioned, except an hour or two each day. 



Sometimes, when all my little domiciles are full, 

 I am obliged, hon gri, mal grh, to let my broods 

 wander at large; the strong chickens take no 

 harm, and, perhaps, this roving gipsy life makes 

 them even less liable to disease. Many deaths, 

 however, must occur among the weakly birds; 

 doubtless a provision of nature, in order that the 

 one may not hamper the other. 



The mother walks ofi" with the utmost sang 

 froid, leaving her helpless babes sprawling on 

 the ground, utteriug piteous little cries for help, 



