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times a day, in an earthenware plate or vessel. Turkeys are 

 fastidious as to clean platters and food. Does not give raw meal, 

 dough, buttermilk or sour milk. These produce diarrhoea, and this 

 disease is the mortal foe of the turks. 



The best way to kill turkeys is to tie their feet together, hang 

 the bird on a pole, cut the throat so as to bleed freely. Dry pick 

 them, leaving h.ead and wings on. After picked, dip in hot water, 

 and then in cold. This will give the skin a fresher look. 



Stock should be changed as often as every third year, says 

 Miss E. A. Murray, in Farm and Home. Nature puts her protest 

 on inbreeding by giving warning, with club-footed and ill-condi- 

 tioned chicks. 



When a turkey is the least bit indisposed, it will draw its head 

 down between its shoulders and refuse food. 



"In spite of all our care, young turkeys have a disagreeable 

 habit of dying," writes Miss E. A. Murray. "The causes are filth, 

 close confinement and improper food. Prevention is better than 

 :ure. I do not have much luck in doctoring the symptoms. I try 

 to remove the cause. I occasionally use a few remedies, a little hot 

 milk for a weakling, a little cayenne pepper in their food, a small 

 dose of sweet oil for constipation, thorough searching for lice, and 

 greasing under the wings for the same. For gapes the same reme- 

 dies we apply as to chickens. I never saw a turkey that got its liv- 

 ing in the fields that had the gapes." 



"The gobbler comes in as a factor," writes Miss Murray. "If 

 he is what he ought to be, he will go with the mother, help her take 

 care of the chicks during the day, and hover over them at night, 

 and if she lays again, take entire charge of the flock. I have seen 

 hen turkeys fly up into a tree with the older ones, and leave the 

 younger ones on the ground, and my old fine gobbler has come 

 down off his perch and hovered them night after night. I have seen 

 him coax with exquisite tact and patience, the timid turkeys raised 

 by a hen, and when he succeeded in gaining their confidence, what 

 a proud and loving father he was." 



The editor of the Poultry Chum, who is also an extensive turkey 

 grower, made the experiment of placing four birds in a pen and 

 feeding meal, boiled potatoes and oats. Four other turkeys of the 

 same brood were at the same time confined in another pen and fed 

 the same diet, but with the addition of a pint of very finely pul- 

 verized charcoal mixed with their food. They had also a plentiful 

 supply of broken charcoal it| their pen. The eight were killed the 

 same day, and there was a difference of one and a half pounds each 

 in favor of the fowls which had been supplied with charcoal, they 

 being much the fattest, and the meat being superior in point of 

 tenderness and flavor. 



Prof. Cushman, in American Agriculturist, says if the little 

 turkeys die immediately after hatching, and before they have been 

 fed or watered, they probably are from weak or runout stock, or 

 have been improperly incubated. 



