GRIT FOR TURKEYS. 



Grit fop Turkeys when eooped— Grit should be provided fop Tupkeys of 

 all ages— Gpit the mainspring of health in Tupkeys. 



MANY people keep turkeys who do not think it is 

 necessary to provide them with sharp grit to mas- 

 ticate or grind their food. In many cases when they are 

 kept without it, it is simply an oversight on the part of the 

 owners ; while other people again think they are bound to 

 gel sufficient for themselves while they are running about 

 the farmyard. I may mention here old turkeys do not 

 suffer for want of sharp grit so much as young ones. The 

 latter are, as a rule, cooped up in meadows where there is 

 scarcely a particle of grit, and, as a natural consequence, 

 some of them begin to die off, and the owner' or attendant 

 has but very little idea of the cause. 



It will be noticed, however, that where there is a sufficiency 

 of sharp grit only the strongest survive. 



