American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . e by Mr. J. A. Richardson, ofKane Co., 111., who writes that they seldom losea turkey, except by accident, if each brood istreated as follows: We make a tight pen 12feet square, and 16 inches high, of boards, audin this we place the young turkeys when firsthatched, and let them remain until they are ablelo By out. On one side of the pen we make ashelter of boards, lo protect them from the sunand from the rains. We feed during the firstweek with boiled egg chopped flue, and good wheat bread, in about equal quantities. Thesecond week w
American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . e by Mr. J. A. Richardson, ofKane Co., 111., who writes that they seldom losea turkey, except by accident, if each brood istreated as follows: We make a tight pen 12feet square, and 16 inches high, of boards, audin this we place the young turkeys when firsthatched, and let them remain until they are ablelo By out. On one side of the pen we make ashelter of boards, lo protect them from the sunand from the rains. We feed during the firstweek with boiled egg chopped flue, and good wheat bread, in about equal quantities. Thesecond week we give curd made by heating sourmilk, and bread made of wheat shorts, or coarseflour. When three weeks old we give them dan-delions chopped fine and mixed with their to this time we feed six times a day at regu-lar intervals, and always furnish plenty of freshwater. When seven or eight weeks old wheatmakes excellent feed. We use screenings orsmall wheat. The old turkey will not leavethe young; consequently she is not confined, A Check for There have been all sorts of contrivances usetlto prevent cribbing horses exercising theirwind-sucking propensity. It is doubtlesswell known to most of our readers what thispropensity orhabit is, but to ex-plain it to all we introduce an en-graving, figure 1,showing the headof a horse iu theact of suckingwind, or crib-bing. The upperteeth are restedupon the top ofhis manger, apost, or any firmsupport; thenbending the neckslightly, pressing Fig. 1.—horse and backward with the teeth, thehorse expels spasmodically a portion of windfrom the stomach. This is constantly practicedby confirmed cribbers so long as they stand nearany convenient rest for their teeth. It is notregarded as a constitutional unsoundness, nei-ther is it a disease, though cribbers are generallyhard to keep in good condition. Both by veter-inarians and by the courts it has been held tobe a bad habit, but not a vice. It is supposedto arise
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