. Turkeys, all varieties. Their care and management. Mating, rearing, exhibiting and judging turkeys; explanation of score-card judging, with complete instructions . higger whichburies itself in the iiesh—at least it does on people—and is very hard to exterminate and very j^ainful toendure. We had never thought of this. The only remedyknown to us is grease, and too much of that is fatal tothe poults. In the late fall and winter lice are hard on turkeys•—they cannot find g-ood dust baths as they can in sum-mer, hence it is necessary to use our best efforts to kill is scattered than when it is g
. Turkeys, all varieties. Their care and management. Mating, rearing, exhibiting and judging turkeys; explanation of score-card judging, with complete instructions . higger whichburies itself in the iiesh—at least it does on people—and is very hard to exterminate and very j^ainful toendure. We had never thought of this. The only remedyknown to us is grease, and too much of that is fatal tothe poults. In the late fall and winter lice are hard on turkeys•—they cannot find g-ood dust baths as they can in sum-mer, hence it is necessary to use our best efforts to kill is scattered than when it is given to them in pans. 1have long- since discarded feeding troughs in my poul-try yards. They were a disadvantage to both old andyoung-. In mj opinion much of the so-called cholera istraceable to the feeding- trough. Turkeys especially arenaturally inclined to take a small quantity of food at atime and when fed in troughs they will till their cropsand do not take enough exercise to cause good fattening I prefer corn to anything else, un-less it be crushed corn. Feed whole corn on the earor scatlcr it in straw so tliev must work to get A Group of Huiitiariaii Turkeys the vermin on them, for they cannot thrive with verminsapping their strength. PREPARING TURKEYS FOR MARKET Many persons wish to know when to begin to pre-pare turkeys for market. The best time to begin iswhen they are hatched and keep up the i^reparationuntil they are put on the market. If you live on a grainO]- stock farm let your turkeys have free access to thefeeding stalls and grain shocks and they will take careof themselves. If you, like myself, are limited to a smallplace, the feeding must be kept up all the year. It willnot do to increase the food too rapidly at first. During-the summer feed adult turkeys only once a day, butabout September I begin feeding them twice a day,morning and evening, all that they will eat, or rather,as I keep the parent stock in the pens, my plan hasbeen
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