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Kind of Hens to Select. — No matter what variety of 

 turkeys may be selected for keeping, they should, above all 

 things, be strong, vigorous, healthy, and well matured, but 

 not akin. Better secure the females from one locality and 

 the male from another to insure their non-relationship, 

 rather than run the risk of inbreeding. 



Rangers Are to Be Preferred. — Though turkeys may be 

 yarded and handled successfully, with sufficient care they 



White Holland turkeys 

 Fig. 113. — Varieties of turkeys. 



do best when they have the entire range of the farm. When 

 given free range they pick up injurious insects, weeds, and 

 waste grain that cannot be utilized in any other way. The 

 cost of raising them is thus greatly reduced, and they seem 

 to be in better health where they have free range. Wheat, 

 oats, barley, corn, in fact any grain that makes good chicken 



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