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necessary. Nothing answers better than the 

 shutting-out system, or confinement to a strange 

 yard alone. Turkeys and geese should now be 

 put on the stubble, and (except their last meal 

 on their return home in the evening) be quite 

 independent of any other feeding. We must 

 often be indebted to the kindness of our neigh- 

 bours for the privilege of pasturing our flocks on 

 their fields ; it is one that can be repaid in part 

 by the gift of a turkey or goose at Christmas ! 

 Even the second broods of turkeys should now 

 be large and strong enough to be sent great dis- 

 tances from home, water being carried to them. 

 In extensive poultry establishments, where a 

 regular debit and credit system is enforced, the 

 earliest-hatched birds are reserved for exhibition 

 and sale at high prices ; so the second hatchings 

 are devoted to home consumption, and for that 

 purpose are in no respect inferior to their older 

 brethren, except in size. 



Eggs may be safely sent to market by mid 

 October, few caring to take the trouble of rearing 

 chickens through a long, dreary winter; and at 

 present prices both poultry and eggs should be 



