. Turkeys, all varieties. Their care and management. Mating, rearing, exhibiting and judging turkeys; explanation of score-card judging, with complete instructions . shorts and milk. Shorts digest very fast and Ibelieve is a preventive of bowel trouble. At any rate Ihave found it a very slow-killing process. At about five weeks old I give the hen her liberty andlet them have free range of the farm and roost on thefences or buildings until fall. I only feed twice per dayduring the summer—shorts mixed with milk in the morn-ing and clean wheat at night. If grasshoppers areplentiful they will oft-
. Turkeys, all varieties. Their care and management. Mating, rearing, exhibiting and judging turkeys; explanation of score-card judging, with complete instructions . shorts and milk. Shorts digest very fast and Ibelieve is a preventive of bowel trouble. At any rate Ihave found it a very slow-killing process. At about five weeks old I give the hen her liberty andlet them have free range of the farm and roost on thefences or buildings until fall. I only feed twice per dayduring the summer—shorts mixed with milk in the morn-ing and clean wheat at night. If grasshoppers areplentiful they will oft-times refuse the wheat, but withme they never refuse the shorts. HOUSING When I first started 1 found great difficulty in gettingthem to roost in a shed at night during winter. I wouldspend over an hour keeping them from going on the fences and buildings, so I thought of a plan which hasworked satisfactorily ever since. 1 built a lean-to on thesouth side of my farm barn. Twelve feet from the barnand parallel thereto four posts were placed twelve feetapart and seven feet above ground. On these were placeda four bv four-inch scantling. Then to the side of the.
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