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On cold wet days they need not be let out. The feed should be put 

 into troughs, set low on a broad base, and located where the fowls 

 will not soil them. The feeding place might be under a shed ad- 

 joining the shed where they roost. The morning meal at first may 

 consist of barley meal and middlings ; and skim milk is desirable as 

 a mixing fluid. Oatmeal is proper as the days go on, and minced fat 

 should be added during the last 10 days. The evening meal should 

 include boiled corn, and the mess ought to be mixed stiffer than for 

 the morning feed. Whole grain is good in moderation, scattered on 

 the ground. 



Never feed cornmeal to young. s 



As a rule, turkey eggs hatch well. " i ^ 



Don't breed from excessive weights. 



Medium-sized but plump turkeys are marketable all the year 

 round, so that at any time when there is a surplus they may be sold 

 at fair prices, but to secure the best prices they must be young and 

 in a good marketable condition, not too fat and not too large. 



J. F. Crangle says a pasture is a good place for poults. Free 

 range gives the best turkeys. Teach them to come home to feed at 

 a particular place. He says they never lose over ten per cent, of 

 the poults, these mostly by foxes and hawks. He believes that more 

 money can be made in turkeys than in any other branch of poultry 

 for farmers. 



"I do not wonder that there are so many failures made in pre- 

 paring turkeys for market when we "take into consideration the 

 course so many breeders take in fattening their birds," says George 

 Wolf, in Farm-Poultry. "I have frequently seen flocks of turkeys 

 penned up in a building for the purpose of fattening for market, and 

 it was a failure every time. This is no more than should be expected, 

 for turkeys are of a wild nature, and as soon as they are cooped they 

 begin quarreling, chasing one another about and constantly worry- 

 ing for freedom. They soon tire of their food, grow thin and will, 

 when killing time comes, weigh less then when first cooped with the 

 expectation of fattening them." 



"If I had a healthy, vigorous lot of turkeys that I wanted to 

 prepare for market," says George Wolf, in Farm-Poultry, "I would 

 give them absolute freedom and all the clean water they would 

 drink. The fattening process would continue through weeks and at 

 no time would I give them quite all they would eat, for as sure as 

 you overfeed you will begin to notice sick birds in the flock. I 

 would feed corn of last season's crop, and mash should be cold, fed 

 in a long trough that is kept perfectly clean, and grit of some kind 

 should be placed where they could always get it. My object in mak- 

 ing them pick the corn from the cob is to give them exercise and 

 because they will not roam as far from home if kept busy for an 

 hour or so picking corn." 



George M. Tucker, in Farm and Home, says, he has found that 

 turkeys raised from the same cock and hens will after a few years, 

 be liable to crooked breasts and other deformities. 



Indigestion destroys many young. 



