W. COOKS TURKEY, GOOSE, AND PHEASANT BOOK. 1 9 



I will just mention why this is. In the first place where 

 a person has only a limited space of ground in towns it is 

 an impossibility to rear many turkeys, and as a rule the 

 owner only attempts to hatch one brood. If there are 

 from four to seven young ones, that is quite as many as 

 may be expected out of an early brood, and of course 

 there is not such a large number running together while 

 they are young, and as they are close to the house they can 

 be fed several times in the day and attended to properly 

 with but little trouble. 



Those who understand this business well as regards 

 rearing turkeys in such small places always have a covered 

 run for them, so that, should it come on to rain, and the 

 little things are running about in the open, they can be 

 placed under shelter at once. 



It is quite different on a farm. One often has to go 

 a quarter-of-a-mile before he can get to them, and when he 

 doe«, they are wet to the skin, which often causes death 

 when they are very young. Young turkeys cannot stand 

 the wet. 



Then again, when there are only a few they get looked 

 after better, and they come in for many bits from the table, 

 that is another advantage the townsman gets. 



This is not all however, there is still another advantage 

 which people do not often think of, that is, when the little 

 things are let out to have a run in a small place there is no 

 wet grass. As soon as it has done raining, and the sun 

 conies out, they can run about. 



A good turkey is expensive at Christmas, and that is the 

 lime when English people want them. There is a certain 



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