. Turkeys, all varieties. Their care and management. Mating, rearing, exhibiting and judging turkeys; explanation of score-card judging, with complete instructions . ut w-e watch them and if theywant to go too far away we drive them nearer home andthus get them to commence laying in a nest more con-venient to us. We gather the eggs and keep them in acool place, placing them .on the small end, and if weshoxild keep them long, we turn them, but as a rule, wedo not keep them long enough to take that trouble, forif we do not set them ourselves, our customers are wait-ing for them. Wc have generall
. Turkeys, all varieties. Their care and management. Mating, rearing, exhibiting and judging turkeys; explanation of score-card judging, with complete instructions . ut w-e watch them and if theywant to go too far away we drive them nearer home andthus get them to commence laying in a nest more con-venient to us. We gather the eggs and keep them in acool place, placing them .on the small end, and if weshoxild keep them long, we turn them, but as a rule, wedo not keep them long enough to take that trouble, forif we do not set them ourselves, our customers are wait-ing for them. Wc have generally had better success inputting- eggs under domestic hens, but we do not letthem raise the poults. We always have a turkey henwaiting to take them. If a turkey hen has been sittingtwo weeks, or even less, she will take the young if theyare put under her when a few hours old. We have triedputting pipped eggs under the turkey, but too many ofthem get mashed, so this year we waited until the poultswere a few hours old. If a turkey chooses to sit in theproper place, we put eggs under her and set a domestichen at the same time, but give all the poults to First Prize Younii Tom Chicago and Indiana Statby F. B CARE OF POULTSWe used to keep the poults and the mother henpenned up for about ten days or two weeks, feeding theyoung turkej s three or four times a day on boiled eggs,dandelions, curd and bread soaked with milk. They didvery well, but we think now it was a mistaken kindness,for we lost a larger per cent of the young in the fall. Wethink that with all our care we invariably overfed, butthe}- did not show the effects until fall. Now we makea practice of keeping the hen and poults penned up fouror five days, feeding very sparingly on boiled eggs, dan-delions or any green plant, s-ach as onions or lettuce, anda little bread. We have discarded curds altogether aswe think it is too much work for the benefit, in fact, wehave almost concluded that it is a detriment to the t
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