Document 6512230

TURKEYS
"AND"
How
A treatise
the
the natural
on
history and
Breeds, and
Various
the
Grow Them,
to
of
business
Best
EDITED
the
assistance
of
Samuel
Breeds
Station;
Rhode
BY
Island
States
and
Show
Foiuts
Association
Name
insure
With
of Turkeys;
success
in
Essays from
parts of
Canada.
MYRICK.
late
Cushman,
Poultry
to
HERBERT
and
the
in different
Growers
the United
ExperiDient
Methods
Turkey growing.
Practical Turkey
Witb
originof
and
Poultry
treated
Editor
Manager
by H.
Rhode
S. Babcock,
American
Standard
Articles hy GJeorge Wolf, Judge of Turkeys
at Chicago
of Massachusetts,
E. Richardson
Show, A. F. Greene
of
California, Creorge Entyof
J. F. Barbee
of KenPennsylvania,
breeders
of Thoroughbred
tacky, and otherfamous
Turkeys,
for market.
or specialists in raising Turkeys
of Perfection;
Fat
Stock
COPIOUSLY
ILLUSTRATED.
NEW
ORANGE
YORK
JUDD
1899
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BY
ORANGE
1897,
JUDD
OOMPANS
PREFACE
No
book
turkey,
in
development
its
"
and
breeds,
and
rearing
The
book
the
of
done
culture
from
quote
by
America.
We
from
New
ways
have
that
succeeds
the
cold
systems
to
contain
Turkey
have
also
of
of
the
that
turkeys
book
all
that
has
compilation
includes
well
as
many
printed,
not
for
also
profit and
will
be
found
that
is of
the
succeed
in
points
contained
help
It
comprehensive
interest
in
growers
turkey
ture,
cul-
A
what
method
Nebraska;
in
if
Southern
to
is
Aaron
his
In
the
success
thus
own
merous
nu-
in
hoped
useful
this
the
souri.
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Mr.
from
and
on
ada
Can-
see
by
points
pleasure.
essays
turkeys
done
will
the
print
may
do
kill
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tur-
on
Station,
locality.
not
work
including
many
practical
the
on
reader
been
that
of
key
turers
rais-
hundred
essay
each
would
there
as
turkey
might
Vermont
in
and
and
two
the
based
work
Book,
country,
in
Tennessee
who
as
the
is
Experiment
one
birds.
experts
stock
successful
given
feeding,
It
gap.
original
nearly
successful
vogue
and
of
parts
of
in
essays
the
(English)
in
experience,
that
Island
most
winters
Greene,
rearing
Rhode
proven
Much
F.
the
the
this
the
ous
vari-
profitable
preparation
at
Brunswick,
were
the
valuable
different
and
In
out
and
fancy
of
the
to
breeding,
successful
most
the
papers
submitted
fill
to
of
account
state
for
of
Harris'
prize-winning
the
market.
use
wild
beautiful
breeders
as
for
full
tlie
effort
of
both
turkeys
make
we
from
directions
an
experience
growing,
an
these
is
adequate
gives
complete
marketing
present
upon
existence
and
subject.
OF
EXTENT
We
also able
are
the
to
as
States.
It is
probable
the
of 1890"
census
and
stock
United
to
it
the
United
We
of
table
a
June
1,
from
that
principal turkey
which
OF
that
annually.
choice
TUEKEYS
IN
TO
Total
Maine
]New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Island
Rliode
Connecticut
York
New
New
Jersey
THE
for
STATE
FEDEKAJL,
United
was
over
stock
ing
breed-
The
is
of
cipal
prin-
below, and
in
number
12,000,000.
showing
of these
counties
and
the
that
magazine,
breeding
EACH
tables
for
the
by
turkey trade
the
in the
1896,
turkeys
sales of
the
$12, 000, 000
parts of this country, England
NUMBER
With
appear
United
enumerated
Agriculturisthas shown
also copy
some
sales of
turkeys
probable
States
States
in the
annual
the
of
exceeds
turkey-growing
American
poultry industry in the
that
is
tics
statis-
fairly accurate
some
10,000,000.
eggs,
States
the
present
number
over
BUSINESS.
TURKEY
THE
of the
extent
exceed
meat
the
CULTUEE.
TUEKEY
n
the
keys
tur-
States, from
shipped
to
all
Europe.
ON
1, 1890, ACCOEDING
JTJNE
CENSUS.
States, 10,754,060.
15,269
10,207
72,164
5,805
11,656
Missouri
North
Dakota.
South
Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
928.751
.
33,928
60,163
218,636
530,397
30,176
Kentucky
672,106
402,642
162,270
Tennessee
Alabama
430,333
Mississippi
Delaware
635,828
70.578
Maryland
278,522
Pennsylvania
I3isirict
of Columbia,
215
Arkansas
.Mt)nlana
North
South
197,420
149,126
Wyoming
Florida
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
.-.
74,680
535.916
Oklahoma
477,414
214,756
Georgia
194,398
Louisiana
Texas
Virginia
West
Virginia
Carolina
Carolina
177,681
"
Colorado
New
Mexico.
Arizona
621,171
Ut.ih
50.5,111 Nevada
,043,947 Idaho
148,797
34,426
5,931
118.816
5,077
2,441
20,872
..
Michigan
185,847 IWashington...
"Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
206.230
Oregon
r^l.i'iO California
940,849 I Total
928
2,744
9,220
4,193
6,433
17,187
43.556
287.799
0,754,060
Til
PBEFACE.
principal turlcey counties, showing
The
of
turkeys in eacli in June, 1889,
also the
number
on
Agriculturist,are
as
Last
Vermont
Adcllsoii
Co
Orange
Windsor
Otliers
York
New
EiieCo
Monroe
three
'96
83
14
15
33
38
483
6
15
18
16
15
30
8
332
162
Co
Burlington
Hunterdon
Mercer
Monmouth
Salem
Others
Pennsylvania
Berks
Chester
Lancaster
26
16
17
22
22
Co
73
589
24
40
33
34
26
433
78
31
23
393
71
39
12
Sussex
Maryland
Charles
Frederick
Harford
Anne
Queen
St. Mary
Anne
Rockingham
Tazewell
Washington
Wythe
Others
Virginia
WEST
Greenbrier
Harrison
Lewis
Monroe
Others
North
Carolina
Currituck
20
22
19
307
21
19
21
16
24
21
180
477
18
21
13
14
12
399
215
18
26
26
10
10
.
43
13
279
12
Monongalia
20
26
536
30
York
Otliers
Delaware
Kent
Newcastle
18
26
37
"Waslilngtou
194
31
59
23
23
198
525
20
23
14
15
13
440
237
13
29
11
11
12
13
145
160
207
197
6
6
Edgecombe
5
5
Greene
Lenoir
5
5
7
as
estimated
by the
census,
by American
omitted.
figures (OOO's)
T2
12
13
14
13
returned
:
1889
5
St. Lawrence
Steuben
OUiers
Jersey
NEW
1, 1896,
follows
403
Onondaga
Others
Virginia
Princess
Jan
as
number
the
Nash
Others
Carolina
South
Abbeville
Beaufort
1889
'96
6
169
149
6
13
10
S
179
1B6
6
14
8
7
7
114
164
3
4
3
4
3
147
699
9
11
12
13
9
482
505
11
15
13
13
13
440
1044
10
556
581
12
17
15
15
15
507
1252
Iroquois
30
36
Lee
21
22
25
34
25
26
31
40
1094
214
Berkeley
Darlington
Edgefield
8
7
7
108
Others
GEORGIA
Bartow
Burke
Houston
Screven
Thomas
Others
OHIO
Fairfield
Franklin
149
3
4
3
4
3
132
621
8
Montgomery
Freble
Others
INDIANA
Boone
Hendricks
Henry
Montgomery
Putnam
Others
Illinois
Livingston
McLean
Vermilion
Others
Michigan
Kent
Lenawee
Monroe
Oakland
Wasihtenaw
Others
Wisconsin
Columbia
Dane
912
186
9
16
8
12
IS
154
237
7
10
13
134
206
Dodge
Fond
du
Rock
Others
Minnesota
BlueEarlh
FaribauU
rillmore
Freeborn
Martin
8
14
Lac
9
10
17
11
9
20
13
10
14
170
166
7
12
148
151
6
7
7
6
6
8
8
6
7
CULTURE.
TUEKEY
VUl
Others
Iowa
Dallas
1889
'96
1889
120
ALABAMA
132
16
187
Bullock
7
19
Dallas
9
1129
941
'96
178
7
9
Davis
16
19
Lowndes
11
12
Greene
27
32
Montgomery
11
12
Linn
16
19
Wilcox
Polk
16
19
Otliers
Others
Missouri
850
1021
929
1022
6
134
Mississippi
Hinds
6
141
194
204
:
7
7
6
Audrain
23
25
Madison
6
Hoone
24
26
Monroe
7
7
Callaway
22
24
Noxubee
7
7
Monroe
24
26
Panola
Pike
23
25
Others
Others
NebuasKA
813
896
219
241
5
5
162
Louisiana
170
75
80
Avoyelles
3
3
Clay
8
DeSoto
4
4
Gage
7
Ouachita
4
4
Lancaster
9
Rapides
3
3
Saline
6
7
St.
5
York
6
7
Others
Others
Kansas
10
183
201
530
683
Landry
TEXAS
66
536
6
69
643
Bell
12
14
14
Cowley
18
20
Ellis
12
Dickinson
18
20
Fayette
14
16
McPherson
13
14
Grayson
13
15
Marion
12
13
Lavaca
Sumner
15
17
Others...
Others
Kkntuoky
454
499
672
706
Akkansas
10
475
12
672
119
125
Crawford
3
3
Bourbon
23
24
Jetfevson
6
6
Harrison
25
26
Phillips
3
3
3
Madison
27
28
SebMstian
3
Mercer
20
21
Washington
6
Shelby
20
21
Others
98
6
103
Others
567
685
California
Tennessee
430
462
Colusa
15
19
Fresno
22
27
Bedford
22
23
288
360
Giles
20
21
Sacramento
15
19
Lincoln
16
17
Tehama
17
21
Maury
20
21
Tulare
Rutherford
19
20
Others
Others
333
350
40
179
50
224
TURKEY.
THE
I.
CHAPTER
THE
TUEKEY"
ITS
KATTJEAL
BY
is well
It
known
fowl
iNTo
but
the
bird
dictionary
present
the
the
The
of
origin
ao
better
that
of
Mexico
be
as
little
of
after
landing,
to
animals
them
it, which
of
the
American
and
stately
into
Europe
permitted,
1519,
none
was
Cortez
not
they
dispatched
of
than
of
and
its
and
West
the
after,
his
"
history
into
of
bird
as
and
introduction
"first
soon
in
letter"
among
the
pride
proud
our
of
the
bird
circumstances
as
the
various
described
turkey,
of
soon
march
and
they
his
in
their
deer
saw
progenitor
for
there
Cortez,
on
is
Europe
Prescott
by
Wild
as
tain
uncer-
introduction,
peacock,
The
so
natural
Europeans,
the
followed,
long
the
this
to
and
of
followers
with
fowl.
naturally
of
the
species
forest
the
object
nearly
not
is recorded
how
other
domestic
and
it
told
a
that
the
introduced
was
unknown
and
pheasants,
rity.
obscu-
bird
from
fact
date
that
previously
is the
camt-
it
the
for
is
It
no
first met
It
Cempoalla.
Turkey.
is, however,
that
Mexico"
belief
the
mestic
do-
etymology,
true
the
of
the
clime.
for
to
as
NAME.
much
in
from
origin
Eastern
doubt,
"Conquest
their
former
name,
and
;
of
the
than
of
gives its
arise
to
turkey
its
established
from
can
the
of
know
the
far
a
name
involved
is
trace
how
from
latter
I
country
to
essay
showing
name,
that
OF
the
of
origin
turkey
supposed
from
came
the
is
name
the
the
ORIGIN
RICHARDSON.
E.
that
called
AND
HISTORY
month
to
his
of
July.
emperor.
3
CULTUEE.
TtlRKET
Charles
and
Pifth, with
the
embracing
royal fifth of the spoils of Mexico,
products of the country, and
all the
of
that
supposed
the
easily obtained.
by
a
the
French
the
wish
that
to
the
see
the
says,
in
"The
table
was
the
to have
says
that
and
and
where
it
abundant
bird
which
the
of
manners
the
in
only
not
substantial
East.
was
name
' '
gests,
sug-
He
also
from
Europe
common
very
but
Mexico,
the
conspicuous
into
domesticated, and
was
the
Portugal
and
most
introduced
was
envy
testament
supplied with
well
originally from
come
this noble
Mexico,
and
turkey, erroneously sujjposed,as its
Wild
Francis
them.
describing the
of
game,
was
expressed
will
last
of
wonder
have
to
between
World
especially
and
Adams'
in
further
Mexicans:
meats,
Aztecs,
be
to
captured
was
imperial rivals of Castile
his
New
it is not
hands
the
gazed with
have
to
clause
authorized
Prescott
was
is said
spoils of the
divide
to
fell into
a
tion
collec-
omitted, especially as it
was
privateer and
with
rich
a
consignment, however,
This
First, who
upon
turkey
later
years
together
communication,
another
dispatched
he
Three
World.
New
products of the
other
fabrics, minerals,
of
collection
a
all
the
along
continent.
Thus
we
Europe
come
how
see
and
refers
from
the
to
of -the
name
Naturalists
quaii,
is mentioned
fm-ther
Spain.
tells
in 1524, five years
At
naturally would
accessible
in
that
us
to
first it
be
the
poor
The
I
the
the
have
said, is
was
as
but
well.
in
So
first
first sent
course
much,
cluded
in-
are
is the
history of the
turkey
pavon.
which
peacock
after Cortez
case,
nized
recog-
being
in
only in the hands
was
the
order
as
have
to
Spaniards
peacock
same
etc.
it
into
by calling it gallopavo,
Indian
of this order, and,
India, and
The
peacock
or
introduction
supposing
called.
place it in the
ornament
to
the
its
of
error
so
true
pheasants,
England
the
to
country
its relation
the
history records
proud
native
a
East.
of
tory
His-
brought
to
specimens
of the
rich,
of time
then,
as
became
as
to the
THE
origin of tlie bird
of
in
no
the
similar
way
pfau, the
similar
to
that
the
find in the
paon
and
how,
to
be
look
to
came
problem.
the
French
is
must
we
Going
Tamil
the
East
of
applied
the
adopted into
word,
tukki, and
by
English language, becomes
said, then, that
the
Mexico,
their
natural
Their
acuteness
and
these
for
it
designated
while
the
the
whence
from
the
deal
to
would
more
came.
educated
train
a
ing
trail-
or
language,
in
name
few, and
well
very
are,
an
Naturally,
their
of pavo
would
the
Doubtless
peacock, for
it would
guage
lan-
own
long before
in the
osities
curi-
opportunity for
known.
Thus
by
large profits,as
they used
not
Let
merchandising.
by the rich.
was
so
were
foreign birds, and
in
they reaped
as
?
tez
expedition of Cor-
gain,
constantly be heard
scientific
toka, peacock,
they usually
as
"American"
it
we
looking for,turkey.
are
importation
new
peacock became
as
of
peacock,
persecuted Jews
engaged,
possible, it
as
obvious
solution
a
Hebrew
of the
only purchased
in this
is
name
through the Hebrew
despised and
were
much
tukki
time
they seized, and
name
word
at the
led them
saw
gain, which
known
it
rarities,by which
then, they
we
adaptability for
things
as
what
came
Spain, and
in
The
slight change by the genius of the
a
But, it is asked, How
It
word
the
names
facts, the
of the
to
man
Ger-
Romans.
language for
refers
a
Latin, the bird
bird.
a
all
pavo,
the
far-off home
the
pawa,
by the
this
to
turkey,
called
all these
other
some
from
language of India,
This
numerous
the
peacock, from
Latin
derived
in view
to
the
or
skirt.
to
a
by his
called
Anglo-Saxon
of which
it be
and
be
to
came
primitive meaning
becomes
among
"Mexican"
the
brought from
then
"turkey"
or
bird
to
another
one
having been
mystery
World,
is
by
Europe
into
New
it
how
strutting.
Strange, then, how
word
the
to
"American"
the
its habit
introduced
was
expedition of Cortez
followers
is shown
itself,in which
and
of Mexico,
native
6
TURKEY.
it
be
they
was
that
market
brew
He-
well
the
places,
only be heard
by force of numbers
the
4:
CULTUEE.
TUEKBT
name
used
was
rise
the
more,
name
of
Bishop
"Like
very
In
hen,
the
tracing
the
preserved
the
set
forth.
received
the
And
Eastern
each
other
facts
of
glories
and
by
linguistic
of
earth's
their
preserve
how
see
its
to
the
how
which,
interest,
no
important
less
than
peacock
rival,
feathered
and
birds
proud
of
united
backwards,
the
to
in
here-
views
became
traced
tends
only
the
have
we
American
these
hemispheres
name
here
Eastern
gaudier
and
governing
rules
fact
according
name,
most
which
k,
to
Western
a
and
we
Cortez
ancient
to
since
with,
word,
tlius
by
its
the
the
Hebrew,
complied
t
of
introduced
was
the
radicals
origin
who,
man,
tliemselves."
to
been
:
poore
up
word
have
etymologies
prove
offer
do
Corbet,
when
as
Buckingham
to
counterfeit
or
pooi'e
their
or
writes
Oxford,
Purther-
day.
turhy,
spelled
gives
that
name
a
Thanksgiving
about
formerly
was
turkey,
into
anglicised
fancies
pleasant
to
turky
and
affinities
tribes.
to
reveals
and
CHAPTER
THE
WILD
have
them
seen
cities
in
number
helped
or
American
of
well
of
all
and
all
in
in
turkey
mountainous
"
of
Gulf
Like
and
the
be
not
a
claim
rarity
The
as
habits
a
wild
of
the
The
hardly
bunch
less
of
Thus
they
buffalo
bird
grass
has
become
nests
or
briers,
5
Western
the
to
way
his
land
along
a
to
much
of
prairies.
by
timid,
fence,
formerly
boys,
it will
much
and
go
and
as
Western
shy
cessant
in-
loggers
and
changed
where
Virsome
sides, and
his
less
now
the
to
the
almost
not
It
of
the
to
become
have
America,
The
all
on
ranging
turkey
watchful.
weeds,
it goes
American
Kentucky,
farmer
right
the
through
Pennsljrvania,
hunters.
their
extent.
limited
giving
by the
soon
before
years
many
and
guns
lose
life.
rapidly
cated
domesti-
North
sections
rare
est.
for-
turkeys,
one
all
in
an
the
fullest
to-day
few
a
of
Central
of
and
York
it is
turkeys
on
is
Tennessee,
dogs,
the
plain
nature
States, and
of
poor
and
New
forest, followed
the
their
of
all game,
warfare
into
of
the
one
is not
Wild
only
their
seen
king
coast,
large
smaller
there
our
to
Atlantic
interior
state
a
of
purpose
the
never
this
is the
of
few
a
glory of
believe
of
it
the
has
proud
Mexico
great
Carolinas,
the
States.
the
as
regions
ginia, the
parts
the
be
our
along
he
not
much
a
all
I
one,
birds
serve
known
now
States, and
the
to
in
proud
all
we
useful
made
territory
eat
stalls
while
though
is not
may
our
found
Once
alive
or
who
to-day
And
for
kill
to
birds, and
market
country,
And
surroundings.
alive
the
the
them
seen
these
of
in
of
parts
have
woody
heard
hanging
some
ENTT.
GEORGE
has
American
gaUop"m"),
(Meleagris
TUEKEY
BY
Every
II.
it
or
mesticati
dobut
in
sought
a
6
TUEKET
the
secluded
most
with
roams
the
and
corn,
in
over
the
leaves
the
open
the
of
oak
But
found
the
of
the
tribes,'yet
Indian
Wild
traits
show
plainly in the
farm.
And
these
latter
Wild
blood
for
turkeys in their native
Wild
cautious, and
which
they elude
out
were
that
hilltop
he
it
was
brother, then
a
hen,
central
he
brothers
the
the
and
the
spring
weaker
with
the
ones,
were
But
all the
find
the
and
away.
and
quently
fre-
fore
be-
of
a
our
full
in
efforts
our
the
and
my
nehaha's
Min-
mountains
of
my
to
was
assistance
hen's
age
plum-
trail her
half-
a
ing
turkey-hunt-
nest
until
This, too, in
a
isolated tracts.
strongest
a
his
was
locate
She
the
give him,
in small
assumes
gobbler
one
to
watch
casual
Wild
ners
gun-
years
turkeys, to improve
largest and
and
able
beginning
latter.
in
chagrin
her.
from
the
was
sisters could
not
woods
had
of
much
be
to
we
Bronze
hatched
were
not
soning
rea-
river, in
three
or
of
source
season
and
albino
unerring aim
lad,
of the
and
could
a
two
old, obtained
year
might, and
poults
where
first
liardiness
expert
in
one
crossing Wild
dozen
the
the
Pennsylvania,
and
as
And
the
of
evening, flying from
or
was
of
alert,
countryside of
Allegheny
bright morning
a
the
manner
spotless-white bird
another, yet it
to
nest
the
of
exi^erienced hunters.
renowned
a
the
instances.
large share
a
of
remarkably
are
plorers
ex-
by
infusion
no
in many
more
most
for
along
at last fell before
youngest
had
whole
although the
on
grand uncles.
Wild
watch
hills
days, and
seen,
one
the
on
many
wonderful, the
the
that
among
first
turkeys
haunts
and
oldest
the
day
common
something
the
the
ranged
young
at
is
It
grandfather said
My
this
to
apparently possessed of
powers.
among
turkey domesticated
or
years,
short-
gleans
or
although
probably have
hundred
a
and
sister scratches
lidge,
glades for food.
of this continent
some
meadows
mown
chestnut
distant
stuhble, through
wheat
its wild
cropped pasture land, while
the
the
now
It
side.
mountain
the
along
spots
its young
growing
CULTURE.
after
place
Early
gobbler drives
royal charge of the
off
flock
THE
about
of hens
him.
flock until
the
in the
flock
by his beauty,
two
three
or
The
nests
and
the
turkeys
large
with
found
the
This
his
youthful days in the
little
The
The
poults
frequently
grouse,
leading them
In
over
the
the
wild
under
off to
in
If
eggs.
a
the
mestic
do-
forest
domestication
writer, who
passed
finest Wild
turkey
the
without
mature
slowly
dead
and
and, like
the
in season,
several
hens
family,
woods,
of worms,
the
single bird.
a
the
where
quail and
of her
care
carefully about
in search
of
loss
excellent
most
leaves
berries
hardy,
very
ing
turn-
etc, and
poults
ing
find-
soon
fill
little crops.
late
as
go
autumn,
or
summer
frequently
and
are
turkey takes
mother
their
of
is occasionally
hatched
run
not
are
Pennsylvania.
in
county
midst
They
Holland
of the
eight
of tame
those
nest
a
experiment
uncle
an
from
thickly spotted
turkeys.
yet
turkey's,
ranges
than
and
rest
months.
summer
White
as
Again,
together, living
more
poults will
young
frequently tried by
was
are
eggs,
large
consorts
solitude.
hen
one
Bronze
the
hatched.
as
soon
hen
domesticated
blotches
than
from
turkey, the
as
and
as
eggs
taken
are
eggs
by
of
account
on
some
his
the
as
turkeys'
domestic
as
or
pleasant
eggs
dots
of all other
or
pity,
shares
laid
The
20.
or
reddish-brown
with
as
18
to
exactly
of eggs
they
they discover
gobblers will" be found
made
number
nine
or
of
out
plenty during the
are
blers
gob-
old
any
solitude, excepting that, attracted
bird, and
young
and
in peace
if
once
ruling gobbler,
the
banished
the
with
nesting ; but
it at
perchance
for
7
gobblers meekly stay with
for
up
in
live
TURKEY.
young
leave
or
dislike
some
The
it breaks
rule, and
cannot
WILD
in
flock, and
one
chief, whose
emeralds, and
they
range
in search
of food.
what
extended
an
plumage
garnets,
the
and
then, with
some
glistens like
and
all
the
astonishing
amount
of
to
a
hues
hills,plains, mountains
It is
their
the
old
bler
gob-
of
gold,
leaf
of
broods
bow,
the rain-
and
young
territory a flock will
valleys
hunter
travel
8
in
day.
a
few
I know
years
a
who
ago,
and
extended
an
have
discover
breaking
the
In
autumn
plump
and
They
fourth
The
idea
The
hens
and
the
less
coloring
on
cut
(Kegs hold
25
is said
hens
lbs of
to
have
are
given
turkeys
Wild
a
weighed
32
above
And
15
the
fairs
and
gobbler which
he
an
the
it been
lbs.
friend
I think
keg.
in
ours
rity
at matu-
this weight
few
people
usually be
weights
lbs, and
of
It
This
powder
empty
that
may
fat.
always lean.
gobbler which
it
when
than
had
are
it is known
allowance
much
lbs
blasting powder. ) A
judges of weight.
considerable
25
give
finelymarked,
at
old
an
ralist
natu-
gobbler is like.
are
seen
salted, filled
only estimated, and
correct
with
weighed
and
the
will
brilliant
more
shot
county, Pa, raised
Mifflin
was
up
made, and
ever
gobblers
early in the sj^ring,when
bird, when
constant
by the great
two-year-old
are
father
have
was
fine
a
tints"
thought would
the
forests, with
brilliantlycolored, but
My
; and
by such
produced
is
perhaps the best
poultry shows.
buckwheat,
or
corn,
gobbler made
Bronze
many
of
vermin.
Wild
"rainbow
land.
neighborhood
wood-scented
air and
a
very
beechnuts,
on
by tlie sharp frosts
imaginable
of what
are
wheat,
tender
of all filth and
good
of
the
in
are
spiced by the rich insects gathered
made
is
got for
of the
birds
long feeding
meal
pure
Audubon,
minute
he
turkeys
first game
from
and
painting of
squirrels that
reward
Wild
berries, and
food
living in the
absence
fat
seasoned
purest meat
the
are
acorns,
forest, and
the
early winter
occasional
the whole
all
was
and
expecting each
been
not
lost feathers,
few
grouse
er
hunt-
commandment.
fat, and
an
he
A
kept
this
Yet
a
lowed
fol-
that
turkeys
birds.
and
rifle
its siunmit.
on
ruffled
turkeys,
and
chestnuts,
in the
had
juicy and
are
farms
shot
the
of
list
his
of Wild
sight of the
caught
he could
to
side, or
the mountains
in
took
Sabbath
large flock
a
along the mountain
never
walker, while
fast
every
trail of
the
a
CULTUEE.
TTTEKEY
of
pure
are
taken
Wild
gobblers above
20
THE
under
compared
with
Karragansett, the
Wild
But, although when
Holland,
or
small, its
the
it is
marking
This
only known
be
better
conceive
of
nothing
can
all, than
chestnut
and
blue
coloring of head
sky, and
feather
such
"
about
with
mind
the
take
on
oft related
the
the
and
Wild
and
walk
to
of
brown
the
dim
spring;
father
to
or
suddenly
flashing eyes,
slowly,
a
up
spreading
few
leaves, like
light of the
start
so
distant
many
wood.
hood
child-
have
been
excitement
the
feeding
giving
great Thanks-
brought
in
feast ; and
this
back
noble
again
to
through the forest in
wild
or
delight, when
from
some
tails
steps, and
all
childhood,
when
to
by
his
discovered
back
supreme
to
mother's
were
the
strutting
to
as
time
brother
crown
of
moment
turkeys
away,
turkeys
each
upon
instinctively
back
or
the
of
colors
appreciated
juneberries, huckleberries, nuts,
the
with
in
to
the
It would
days spent roaming
summer
of
much
father's
crimson
mates
unfortunate
so
bars
gentleman's grounds.
a
one.
back
Wild
wood
search
his
the
of the
long
to
;
when
of
as
an
if
to him
hunt
half
; or,
almost
its black
glistening
half-dozen
all in
beard
all
busy city resident
wheat
green
his
such
back
high when
chief
shrubbery
farm
in town,
ran
and
of the
the
on
born
and
as
his
and
neck,
bird
of nature
taken
tail with
leaves
be
turkeys.
trailing wings, the
and
autumn
sight would
no
lovers
as
lawn
the
And
a
eny
prog-
brilliant
Bronze
ornamental,
more
edging, his
and
sea,
give
turkey raisers,
well-bred
touching the turf, his widespread
rich
stamina
retaining the
gobbler,
and
appear
understood.
stately Wild
a
of
of
may
thus
to many
way
fact should
turkey
constitutional
known
well
large Bronze, White
crossed, and
it is
which
characteristic
so
the
reinforce
so
superior size, is
while
I
to
power
turkeys with
of
gobblers
most
lbs.
16
of any
12 lbs and
-weigh under
hens
lbs, wliile most
y
TUIiKEY.
WILD
and
flock
;
of
hiding place,
of alarm
notes
then, with
phantoms
a
grapes
a
rushing
disappear
in
10
CULTXJBE.
TUKKBY
the
May
Wild
day
turkey
native
my
roams
OF
WOOIXG
THE
BY
The
males
of
some
males
then
may
cries, which
above
the
hens
both
they finally become
When
call.
which
the
sound.
If the
ground, the
all the
with
and
their
spread
draw
the
dignity
other
and
looks
head
in airs and
on
another
to
in
and
and
parade
their
and
on
if
as
the
The
then
nonchalant
fail to win
each
other
in the
manner.
sual
unu-
her
with
family.
if to increase
affection
and
march,
dandy.
try
demurely
to outdo
When
the
her, the candidates
to
contest
The
mortal
walks
easy
combat,
away
little
pays
and
with
and
each
outdo
to
however,
parades,
wings
ground,
along the
trying
were
the
on
the
wheel, and
female,
gallant
before
shoulders,as
rivals for her
the
is
those
tails, depress their
trail them
they
call
characterizes
the
is successful
most
the
her
the
hearing respond
notes
answering
cerfmonioiM
challenge
return
female
graces.
gobbling
coyly
an
importance;
playing
time, but
they hear
these
while
period,
gobblers do when
back
and
this
to
erect
gobble,
attention
uttering
the steadiest
similar
quivering motion
a
swell,
and
and
every
appears
some
this,all within
strutting that
pompous
They
hear
fly t^
males
the
liquid
sun
at
apart
roost
obdurate,
vehemently,
domestic
in
The
and
with
for hours
sexes
less
males
the
and
promptly
the
ere
answering the gobblers for
avoid
is
from
loud
their
long
continue
and
horizon,
March
highest development.
ring with
woods
persistency. As
the
its
commenced
are
but
;
February
as
calling to the females
heard
the
direction, until
TUEKEY.
early
as
States
it reaches
be
more.
throughout the country, and April
season
in which
no
noble
MUKPHY-
Southern
extreme
opening of the love
the month
M.
said the
WILD
wooing
commence
the
mountains
THE
J.
be
it shall
when
come
never
one
ting
strut-
for matrimony
and
her
ever
whichin the
indifference of the
12
CULTUKB,
TUBKET
were
very
but
could
that
after it
the
seen
in
the
victors
the
latter
they keep together until
separate, for the males
then
destroy the
eggs
period, and
the
males
The
they
I
as
heard
never
three
females
drive
the
will
the
of
not
males
the
bridegrooms, according
to the
order
aged
the
woods
in
males
mingle with
waning
of
much
also
the
old
"When
do
as
keep
their
they
love
season
when
emaciated,
so,
themselves
until
small
that
veterans
are
places of
of their
wandering
through
five, but
or
that
the
prowess.
they
the
to
ingly
exceed-
are
ately
they fly immedi-
by their
they
powers,
are
is over,
recover
bachelor
hens
almost
own
picious
sus-
Barren
exceedingly
changed
the
leave
their
by
males
them,
not
hens,
tive
demonstra-
as
airs, and
fact would
is
nature
the
kindred.
are
This
fertile.
ordinary animal
in
and
so
can,
of the
created
younger
by themselves,
males, whereas
the
gobblers
They strut and gobble occasionally, but
when
that
or
season,
they
vacated
wild
so
displaying their vocal
in
if
found
imaginary danger
nature.
which
erotic
disposition. They
vigilant, and
an
so
the
adult
two
flocks, owing, apparently,
the
salacious
their
shy and
nearly
The
partiesof two, three, four,
seldom
from
also be
may
than
more
some
occupy
Some
congeners,
by themselves, generally in
they
then
killed, and
them.
hen, but
one
domestic
gobble
to
six to ten, unless
from
laying, and
than
having
during
keep
to
brides
prolong the love
to
more
protection.
away
obliged
are
parties of
his
their
won
rage
its eyes
out
commence
their
as
permit them
even
latter
by
gobbler
a
under
young
have
a
this, carefully screen
followed
polygamous
so
pecked
they could, in order
often
in such
;
jealous that they would
so
hens, knowing
are
not
are
if
are
deed,
a
of circumstances
tournament
a
such
do
to
force
rival, but
its
When
dead.
was
to the
winner
only killed
it not
compelled
been
help it, owing
not
yet I have
have
to
sorry
feathers
coy
seem
and
to
as
pretentious
un-
prove
circumstances.
are
much
very
they keep
strengh, and
parties; but, instead
then
of
by
unite
re-
being
WILD
THE
clamorous,
exceedingly
strut and
sometimes
general rule, they
they
as
period, they
mating
the
not,
elevating and
lowering the
puflBng sound.
They keep
their
tail
feathers, and
a
uttering
hours
for
exercise
as
with
themselves
content
this
they
roosts, though,
and
at
Yet
silent.
almost
on
early part of
in the
were
become
gobble
do
13
TURKEY.
at
a
a
r^
via.
time
and
on
hollow
the
in
a
continue
hen
WILD
grass
or
or
it until
is ready
thicket, a
in tall grass
with
"CALLIKG"
moonlight nights, without
sometimes
When
2.
weeds,
to
TUKKEY3.
rising from
daylight.
lay, she
scratches
canebrake, beside
or
leaves, and
a
a
grain field,and
then
perch,
their
out
a
slight
prostrate tree,
lines
deposits her
it rudely
eggs
in
it.
14
CULIUBE.
TURKEY
which
These,
smaller
and
more
turkey,
and
are
and
may
lay
raise
the
broods
to
present
in
the
a
year
when
until
she
she
deserts
if
is
penchant
keep
in
in
the
carefully
so
makes
the
which
Corn
follow
inside,
is
and
unable
deepens
strewn
along
be
over
head
then
with
find
to
An
inclined
gradually
the
bottom
down
led
heads
path
and
of
by
up
ends
the
the
they
until
see
no
way
are
they
inside
corn
We
they
are
Fig
out.
trench,
it
cover
trench
or
her
"called"
trap,
way
to
it.
how
this
their
to
are.
and
within
order
leaves
turkeys
whistles,
enticed
once
she
very
build
and
a
when
the
in
to
find,
Wild
pany
com-
has
her
whenever
how
keep
eggs,
forces
can
for
again,
he
as
raised
loudly
both
one,
the
she
grass
is
calls
away,
spot
with
plain.
trap
ing
sit-
always
was
laying
This
or
them
by
destroying
showing
to
as
them
hens
brood
female
him
for
When
confused
eral
sev-
hatch
one
one
commence
drives
leaves
to
entrapped.
to
secluded
most
hunters
that
three
and
only
rejoined
is
company.
pictures
present
by
his
with
and
found
nest,
the
are,
ready
or
strongest
nest
they
she
him
her
single
a
destroyed,
not
but
and
male,
in
color,
them.
are
;
He
domestic
says
nest,
one
together.
eggs
protect
eggs
in
eggs
are
dirty-white
a
Audubon
spots.
their
forty-two
or
the
of
those
dnll-cream
a
twenty,
to
ten
than
brownish-red
hens
on
If
elongated
of
with
sprinkled
from
number
in
vary
is
the
the
1
ranged,
ar-
pen.
turkeys
they
out.
are
III,
CHAPTER
BREEDS
THE
than
common
among
classification
TURKEYS.
in
the
fowls,
not
taken
being
care
more
variation
is less
There
OF
them
turkey
being
many
ing
follow-
and
correct
as
and
kept,
The
pure.
considered
be
may
so
keep
to
domestic
ordinary
is
cepted
ac-
breeders:"
by
Mexican
Wild
The
Honduras
North
American
Mammoth
American
Narragansett
Domesticaced
The
Bronze
Holland
White
"
Blaclc
Buff
Slate
Mexican
The
of
the
Honduras
America,
also
equal
the
have
to
color,
but
ibsence
of
ings
of
a
of
detail
rivals
of
pure
its
wings
chestnut
this
it in
this
The
breeders,
white
and
the
color.
Wild
because
painting
fresh
from
is still
infusion
15
in
said
the
or
the
of
of
our
the
possess
Mexican
from
it
the
of
useful
bird
in
its tail
treats
best
ing
bein
key.
tur-
ture
portrai-
frontispiece
is produced.
importance
wild
an
pencil-
domestic
the
pure,
eyed.
or
chapter
most
and
longer
gray
still
it
to
peacock,
feathers,
second
is
cate
domesti-
the
differs
its
of
Central
to
somewhat
a
white
progenitor
turkey
of
and
dull
is
forth.
set
"ocellated,"
is
of
any
fully
resembles
It
Our
bird, and
It
tail
turkey
size.
in
fine
noble
its
variety,
superb
Audubon's
of
Wild
domesticated
the
than
of
feathers
progenitor
found
that
to
the
attempts
tropics.
brilliancy
in
all
be
is
as
turkey,
baffled
the
American
North
The
in
it outside
rear
plumage
have
to
to
turkey,
Ocellated
or
appears
and
a
domesticated
common
The
considered
generally
is
Lavender
or
blood
to
into
16
CULTUEE.
TUKKEY
breeding
our
of
stock
vitality,and
breeds"
improved
is, for
that
in
our
turkeys for
raise
who
those
health
and
thrift
insure
to
cadence
prevent de-
to
be necessary,
to
seems
market.
THE
H.
The
Bronze
The
standard
hen
22
often
are
more
is the
turkey
which
short
a
There
high,
and
Porty pounds
birds.
and
we
of
know
we
lbs,
24
even
hen
one
her, twenty-nine
saw
reach
to
thirty pounds
time.
is
obscurity about
some
is reason
but
Bronzed,"
the
term
Bronze.
into
that, after
come
back
The
Black
a
Wild
at
was
too
resulted
a
ened
short-
showing
as
earfycolor, it
of
its Wild
from
has
original.
the
restored
are
to
"Black
it became
the
long distance
turkey, but the lines
cated
domesti-
the
as
long and
color
from
Early references
variety is interesting
nearly the
departed
it
first known
departure from
very
had
that
turkey.
was
This
marked
to
it
that
origin of this variety,
original of all the
the Black
varieties,upon
variety show
the
believe
to
turkey, the
crossing the Wild
of the
lbs, cockerel
weights, though
expected her
owner
turkeys.
our
among
32
These
when
weighed,
although there
the
15 lbs.
cock
by the old toms,
pounds, and her
in
For
:
by the
reached
are
are
pullet
exceeded
BABCOCK.
B.
largest variety
weights
lbs, and
TUEKET.
BRONZE
rich
in the
hues
Bronze
variety.
The
the
rich
base
eyes
the
are
face
color
as
above.
rich
red
has
a
skin
curved, and
well
the
male
and
long head, with
being carunculated.
is of the
growing
dark-hazel
and
the
The
bronze.
light
and
The
known
as
of good
back
nerk
of the
or
size,
is
the
the
hangs
clothed
skull,
beak
horn, darkest
snout, is
and
of
strong
it approaches
wattle,
long curving
The
as
The
in color, contrasting with
jaws.
face
color
breadth
good
in
of
the
down
red
its
of
same
from
plumage
male, starting from
at
The
tip.
rich
is
of
June
THE
tion with
the
neck, rises in
center, which
the
in
feathers
breast
quite deep, and
with
the
the
and
breast.
of
of the
which
BufE
effects of the
supposed
are
considerable
wings
have
the
nearly
The
white.
the
brown
more
broad
The
the
tail consists
is black, and
of
bands
with
a
similar
that
makes
which
across
gray
materially from
The
the
main
stout
colored
bone,
are
in
immature
birds they become
to decide
with
some
the
gray
or
but
as
greenish
color,each
the
grow
or
gray.
bronzy
or
ending in
a
broad
band
do
wings.
clad
are
in
birds
black, but
This
differ
shadings.
long and
stout
in
fact will enable
the age
as
dark, bronze-
are
almost
of black
tail,except that
richer in bronze
upon
'
narrow
not
shanks, which
certainty
and
ground color of which
of the
flesh-colored.
one
more
the
across
tail coverts
thighs, of good length,
feathers, and
of
have
to
bar
a
or
less of white
a
feathers
they approach the back thoy
The
primaries
in
to
black
irregularly placed
are
margin.
rise
penciling
light brown, terminating in
wide
muscles
be
to
seen
seen
in
ers,
primary feath-
The
rich
of feathers
richest
to
are
a
the
heavy bird
less and
with
coloring, like
the
are
are
coverts
of black
band
long
black
are
in varieties
spread, and
like the
are
Even
is much
less regular
or
bronze, and
bows
luster, and
opened,
man,
probably,
in
ground.
primaries, they
and
wing
The
is
more
the
the
secondaries
from
counts
wing
with
so,
wide
a
enable
to
uniform
be
the
upon
is so,
it.
upon
shad-
kept by
all fowls
plumage
hight from
when
a
upper
strong enough
sun
length
its
those
richest, and
to
the
Cochin,
coloring. The
are
the
The
bronze
with
black
are
nent
promi-
bronze.
midway
fact, in almost
is much
top plumage
because
the
In
to
sunlight they
dark
ing!",less lustrous, though beautiful, than
back
descends
ing
bronze, each end-
of
plumage
feathers
the
the
broad, full and
The
rounded, and
long, well
is
body
is covered
then
in
about
to
curve
richest
black, and
indescribably beautiful.
are
gentle
a
of the
are
of
band
narrow
a
17
TUBKETS.
is the liigliest
point, and
The
tail.
OP
BREEDS
of
a
in
adult
one
turkey.
18
C0LTUBE.
TUEKET
As
the
female
it will be
rich
so
never
as
are,
the
that
rule,
a
would
female
be
has
Bronze
The
some
blood
of Wild
cause,
the
Barber
Mr
in the
:
sky, what
of
flock
adds
any
plod their
to
weary
dream
of
golden
sight
Bronze
to
way,
the
due
in
fusion
by the in-
largely, and
very
is
sun
turkeys,
than
eye
a
they homeward
as
drink,
slowly sinking
the
meet
can
and
eat
fat
also
variety.
the
lovelier
turkeys,
to
roost, and
chance
per-
grasshoppers they will find
on
morrow."
the
JUDGING
BRONZE
EY
[We
the
presume
Wolfl,
Mr
other
sex.
rate, whatever
any
is bred
mate,
her
hardiness, secured
turkey
ers
feath-
bird, but
among
perhaps
origin. Au
"When
brilliant-hued
and
size,
in its
Bronze
largely than
more
poisular variety
most
are
herself
by
becomes
as
are
markings
richly colored
dress,
its increased
to
the
detail.
female
handsome
very
more
modest
its great
to
measure
be the
and
the
Considered
a
her
in
margins of the
color.
with
is the
probably
due
sober
very
a
the
considered
regarded in connection
she
male, that
in
gray
of
lines
that
the male,
as
same
markings
her
the
of the
those
as
describe
less distinct, and
be
to
apt
noted
be
the
much
very
to
unnecessary
it is to
But
is colored
although
GEORGE
an"l
and
a
This
the
exceedingly
carriage
hardy
weight
cockerel
such
of
admiration
and
of
for
Bronze
24
of the
all,with
turkeys
were
Bronze
interested
15
believe
Its
markings
It
to
of
is:
lbs.
that
lie has
know
that
exact
more
quallHcatlous
Turkeys
challenges
plumage, strutting
is,by all odds, the most
Cock
Some
32
The
now
standard
lbs, hen
1.5 or
enormous.
are
a
and
introduced.
yet
considered
turkeys
we
its lustrous
turkeys
lbs, pullet
weights
be
breed
popular
prodigious size.
breed
will
paralytic siTice infaiiey, is oiieof
tlie most
rienced
expeHis being a cripple lias made
judges ("" tnrkeys.
and
breeders
in liis work,
close student
of the Bronze
breed
knowledge
than
living person.]
any
him
WOLFF.
rearler
average
a
TURKEYS.
20
20
years
But
the
found
in
our
lbs,
since,
ity
majorbest
20
CULTURE,
TURKET
3.
PIG.
This bird
won
He
ago.
Sherman
"William
the grand
was
taken
and
we
TURKEY.
York
fanciers* club
by the New
prize offered
old, weighed
forty-five pounds, and
was
AVith
of Connecticut.
seven
fine hens, he was
hi every
fine picture
BRONZE
PRIZE
years
Hartwell,
Simpson,
prizes
The
two
THE
exhibited
case,
and
at
proving
is from
present
Agriculturist ^ and
for the American
poultry
numerous
an
superior
to any
Instantaneous
drawn
some
years
bred
by
bought by
England, capturing
English-bred
turkeys^
photograph
by Small^
shows
by Keeler.
in
THE
narrow.
but
not
The
breast
drop
so
to
in
seen
If
chance
to
sometimes
white
in
or
and
quill
not
or
of
back, the
more
sometimes
feathers.
a
seen
specimen
with
of them
several
be
standard
for
judge
a
black
in most
continues
we
admired
that
where
color of
thigh
say
to
be
Many
more
years
tail covert
It
on
As
up
leave
you
towards
the
which
sionally
Occa-
feathers, and
secondary feathers.
or
cutting. It is
honest
tail
are
edging of
narrow
black
cut
of
grand
a
point.
one
irregularlypenciled
It is
turkey
a
idea
mistaken
have
must
fully
a
tails, and
birds
with
fully penciled tails,
from
black
Bronze
use
predominates
band
penciling
specimens, and
with
tails
main
tail
sometimes
if
a
son
per-
is
so
Again, I will
lighten the
we
I would
advise
judges
containing less penciling.
white
feathers
extends
out
penciling under
of
itself to two
usually keeps
the
over
covert, that
turkey fanciers.
much
so
tail
on
since, I discovered
It
the
such
usually confines
tail feathers.
near
with
in many
feathers, and
we
too
instance
we
the
to
brown
true
lenient
be
apt
sunlight.
the
solid
Bronze
a
breed
by
in
black
a
faulty
very
bronzy brown,
a
an
with
I find that
every
to
to
light brown.
ihink
to
destroy the
soon
much
of
tail, for
penciled
for
calls
bands
narrow
with
escapes
a
count
by heavy
punished
black,
feathers
of feathers.
primary
in
be
are
tle
lit-
tail, and
must
secondary
web
is but
and
very
usually have
when
wing, indeed, that
The
are
The
rapidly changes
find
should
with
feathers
those
less luster
or
we
They
turkeys
secondary feathers, and
color
times
some-
evenly penciled
be
Bronze
the outside
on
gray
is
as
color, there
wing, back
to
Many
of those
center
has
form,
wing feathers
feather
as
in
to
get
you
clearly defined, and
white
the
irregular in penciling, especially as
ends
so
the
color,
injure
primary
bars.
gray
primary
dull
till
each
so,
nicely rounded,
and
toms.
legs. The
nearly
or
full
really brilliant
is
cut
be
to
as
21
TURKEYS.
OF
must
low
aged
specimen
a
BKEEDS
the
of
or
many
four
entire
Bronze
of
the
the
keys.
turter
cen-
length of the
sight from
the ordi-
22
by
observer
nary
markings
but
usually
are
This
should
to say,
and
It is seldom
the
that
feathers
breeders
find I
and
find
we
only
be
must
the
blackest
toward
specimen
became
BLACK
S.
foundation
until
The
has
this
of
quondam
In
the
black
Black
Norfolk,
introduction
black
in
fowls
are
is the
and
is
or
lustrous
or
like
the
If
gray.
success.
produced
was
ing
by continuously select-
showing
the
the
least
having been
Bronze
recent
kind, and
Black
a
it
in Norfolk.
turkey into England
to
is
a
depose it of
handsome
handsome, American
plumage
is
is known
long bred
years,
Black
black
a
common
The
ten
parts of England
Black
legs, or approximately
most
gray.
advice, they will
variety.
contrary notwithstanding.
beak
as
brilliant
white,
turkey
certain
of the
The
supremacy.
All
to
Black
considerable,
done
or
quite recently, the favorite variety, and
the
as
cut
through melanism
that
long-established variety.
be
BABCOCK.
Wild, either
or
mon
cinna-
TURKEY.
specimens, those
bands,
be
female
my
of
specimens sported from
or
the
there
dull
brink
covert
brilliant,and
or
with
for
tail
to
as
The
clear
so
asking
should
turkeys
am
judges have
dull white
a
birds.
to the
domesticated
the
was,
of
I
and,
back,
and
quite jorobable that the Black
is
dency
be
edged
H.
from
to
judges will only accept
THE
It
edging
the
up
young
not
for
time.
every
and
me
blood
aged
as
leading them
am
Wild
edging should
in color,
male
find the
it
examined
mercy,
breeders
they extend
as
find
blame
you
often
We
wing color
in
breast
Can
wing feathers,
I have
without
best
our
It denotes
color.
defect, as such
clean
of
it.
lesser coverts,
in
punished
be
specialty judges?
in white.
The
covert.
primary
defect, and
this
many
discovered
never
of
decided
so
for
flock
defect
ashamed
not
those
to
the
beyond
extending
not
similar
are
flock after
a
CULTUEE.
TUEKET
we
ety.
vari-
prejudices
plumage
so, with
have.
its
means
white
In
the
skin.
sun-
THE
BEEEDS
OP
TUBKEYS.
23
24
light the
black
not
and
greens
purples
in this country,
popular
a
widely popular
color.
Only
the
Langsban.
"
But
its
with
prejudice
this
turkeys
should
be
other
tail.
they
If the
prize.
the
solid-colored
The
Black
is
it will
of
breeders
and
the
or
the
that
breed
is called
for
chicks
male
should
and
shows
in
each
and
year
more
their
only
use
tendency
predict how
wholly.
the
Bronze,
best
instead
have
a
and
to the
birds
at
of retaining
little white
weigh twenty-flve
TURKETS.
ENTY.
widely known
Holland,
than
Like
the
White
or
are
are
frequently
in the market.
sphere, they have
all
pounds.
sections, and
some
the
fatten
possibly owing
short, yet birds of this breed
numbers
the
less
of
winning
and
"
it
than
of the
turkey is the White
Bronze
known,
is
from
to
for market,
GEORGE
A
flavor
bird
obliterate
HOLLAiTD
WHITE
the
to
feath
wing
breeders, this
bird
twelve
back"
on
heredity
in size,
adult
hen
show
sacrificing the
Some
The
more,
to
smaller
Christmas
head.
"harks
impossible
take
variety
for stock.
them
is
deteriorated
this
Thanksgiving
pounds
much
a
have
to
appears
about
it
key
tur-
standard
turkeys will
for
Black
Black
American
the
of
marks
So,
that
The
hurt
Black
specimens
generations
many
of
reduced, though
will be
will
not
capes
es-
disqualification. But
a
prevent
"
wonder
in number.
do
may
bands
these
show
not
bands
breeders
that
need
black"
bands
These
flesh, although
always beautiful.
The
is
popular, for
and
variety often
ancestors, and
its banded
and
than
rigidity, the
despite this
ers
few
be
to
fowls
narrowly
Minorca
ought
throughout.
black
"feathers
makes
we
comparatively
are
The
black
in view
variety of
black
one
usually hardy
are
wearers
prejudice, is
unreasoning
to
But
beautiful.
extremely
are
owing
being popular.
a
CULTURE.
TURKEY
seen
popular
turkey,
and
it
erable
kept in consid-
becoming
among
better
turkeys in
everything else
good qualities
as
on
also their
this
weak
THE
points. But
declare
most
tliem
would
account
But,
after
it is
of
worthy
keeping them
due
and
a
their
its
for
allowance
years,
turkeys, and
flocks and
change the
scription
over-de-
all
be admitted
doings, it must
prominent
very
few
a
of
possible breed
dispose of
making
25
TURKEYS.
after
to be tlie finest
of the breed
that
OF
persons,
no
on
breed.
BREEDS
place
tic
domes-
among
fowls.
The
origin of this breed
name
is not
They
came
a
birds, a
in time
to
been
America,
the
greatest
made.
Cock
"
breed
The
26
Slower
This
selecting the
within
and
than
the
lbs, hen
quite small.
of cocks
lbs, and
18 to 22
the
standard
Peter
has
had
under
fowls, writes
.
the
was
feathers
flesh,and
down
on, he
was
to
with
"
larger and
one
and
reason
heavier
a
try
why
to
to
with
lbs,
breed.
the breed
have
17 to
19
lbs, showing
16
low.
too
dressed
the
was
Mr
with
a
young
nicest
head, and
the
wing, tail and
at
white
six
months
neck
in
any
reveals
heavy weights
breed
as
fluff feathers
attention
attract
ing
look-
white,
transparent
was
with
10
other
are
"I
bring them
is because
pullet
:
days old, that weighed
weight
this
follows
as
experience
:
lie
large size and
people would
Perhaps
his red
Such
the possibilitiesof
if
and
skin
his beard
six
sight that would
a
first-class market.
breed
and
His
saw.
date
been
has
lbs, hens
33
weights
recent
for market,
ever
to
that
contrary, I
considerable
gobbler last fall,six months
16 1-2 lbs dressed
30
it has
years,
are
any
the
pullets 13
conclusively that
Enty, who
for
On
weighing
15
lbs, and
16
obtaineu
breed
unacquainted
one
keys
tur-
But
or
the
required
naturally lead
I
last 12
developing
are
be
characteristic.
weights of this breed
it to be
bird
could
standard
lbs, cockerels
these
fowls
in
16
origin.
by continuously mating
such
this
to
the
finest white
progress
numbers
seen
true
weights
to suppose
locality of their
the
to
of
race
lbs, cockerel
would
turkeys is in doubt, and
flocks, and
the
among
white
in
index
correct
probably from
found
these
of
in
this
out.
has
the
not
size
as
been
it
made
now
i\
26
they
CULTUEB.
for
ordinary family
just suited
are
breeds
are
breeds
command
be
must
TURKEY
large for
too
sold
the
on
sale.
holidays
sold at all.
A
plump
young
sell
readily
at
almost
any
can
be
in any
of the
had
occasions
not
size in which
and
the
males
15 or
turkeys have
that
it
And
breeds
for years,
that
White
have
hatched,
and
raised
and
cold
that
thing like
no
expect
one
are
They
not.
dampness,
free from
they
will
White
of
be fed
praise
"
But
if
any
other
at the
be
hardy
to
die
Christmas
to worry
their
owners
More
is
damp
weak
during
poults
a
brief
der
ten-
cold
and
be
fowl
kept
;
and
quantities, or they
board.
should
are
a
them, let
must
like any
festive
all who
so
much
they
in proper
respondent
cor-
never
less
a
iron, for they
or
turkeys;
A
could
much
too
to
of
egg
maturity.
I
eral
sev-
hard
I believe
as
hardy, well matured,
closelyrelated.
and
or
I find
frequently
every
or
geese,
turkeys, that if hardy poults
must
different
the
Thanksgiving table, or
by
land
Hol-
best-known
weakly
to
lbs,
ticity,
domes-
a
has
where
exposed
food
a
their
the
It
form
uni-
a
White
place, which
they droop and
proper
eral
sev-
12
or
between
of whalebone
die
be remembered
stock
not
just like
choose
hardy,
be
this
on
them
live to grace
never
it must
will
lice, or
must
words
find
to
of
are
it is unfit to raise
turkey.
10
for
tameness.
must
last year
a
about
poult lived
"They
any
to
instances
every
on
turkeys of
extolled
Hollands
known
stock
I have
rule.
a
size
same
subject of this sketch,
of
score
says:
have
the
as
15 lbs will
common
like sacrilege to tell
the
I
as
if
market
8 to
the
keeping several
well
as
that
raise, but
clutch
almost
anything
on
said
often
so
lb toms
Thanksgiving.
at
is little if
breads
been
lbs
16
yet, after
there
with
weighed
hens
been
seems
tale.
readily,
the
to 46
Certainly the
season.
large flocks of Bronze
seen
smaller
Thanksgiving
or
breeds, or
so
40
great
turkey dressing
of the
farms, but
The
largest
the
families, hence
most
readier
The
use.
call
Then,
attempt
wanted
forth
to
the
too,
raise
ing
breed-
properly kept, and
come
into
existence,on
the
world
account
38
of close
than
breeding and
from
to hatch
eggs
and
This
is
the
of
"break
to
few
Are
think
for
beauty,
good
a
breeders
class
and
will
farmers
seriously disappointed
and
knows
what
he
is
practically unknown
engraving from
our
view
artist
reproduces
bred
in
are
considered
birds.
large numbers
hardy than
the
other
Just
why
for
rarer
this color
few
colors
opinion.
them
efforts
of
need
be
one
properly
pictures have
a
been
accompanying
White
Hollands,
spirited but
lifelike
^\'hite Hollar
when
prepared for the table
and
turkey
we
d turkeys
have,
but
are
breeds."
BUPF
H.
the
them
"The
finest flavored
THE
Among
page
I
only.
ahead
prize-winning
printed
on
of these beautiful
are
less
of
season,
above
no
heretofore, but in the
nature
the
best
goes
Truthful
doing.
kept four hens
I believe
think
if he
in them
hard
were
opposite
of the
general, and
times
July.
point.
worthy
much
three
others
breed
of the
this
on
and
in
be
the
; others
of taste
other
of
again 1 have
and
in
matter
a
some
nothing
turkey
is
of
was
during
eggs
hens
found
season
friend
brood
a
one
; while
264
That
jou
I say
I have
eggs,
broody. A
rearing
may
while
Therefore
to be
or
so,
dozen
laid
they beautiful?
in
few
occurrence.
layer
poor
dozen
a
second
once
breed.
a
large number
a
uncommon
an
twice
laying
hatching and
may
and
or
hatch
which
since
years
hen
one
when
up"
as
that
regards proliflcness. And
as
laid the
had
fault
a
selection,as
good
of this breed
they
of
result
broody before
become
as
season,
is not
remarkably
a
nature
hens
ere
the
doubt
no
same
seen
broody hens
no
progeny
early in the
fowls
stock,
perhaps the best layers among
are
reckoned
turkeys. It is sometimes
want
in the
weakness
turkeys
breeding
of
selection
poor
natural
any
Holland
White
a
CTJLTUEE.
TUEKET
S.
TURKEY.
EAEOOCK.
varieties
should
are
be
more
of
rare
the
turkey is the
is not
pleading
plain
to the
to
eye.
Buff.
stand,
underIf it
THE
lacks the
BREEDS
brilliant reflections
of
the
it has
Black,
quite compensates
for this
39
OF
TURKEYS.
of
tlie Bronze
beauty
a
lack.
all
Delicate
colors
of delicate
constitutions.
't is true,
influenced
by
PIG.
white
fowls
less
are
impression would
turkey is
How
have
no
no
it
more
6.
BUFF
hardy
not
TUKKEY
COCK.
than
colored
apply
delicate
to
than
perhaps originated
records
to tell
us
the
the
its
can
buff.
darker
which
its own,
necessarily indications
long been
the iridescence
or
not
are
have,
We
impression
that
but
this
ones,
The
buff-colored
cousins.
be guessed, though
we
the maker
the
matings
or
ot
30
TUEBEY
matings.
white
But,
often
Bronze
and
would
be
show
the
under
the
of
name
much
as
Reds
lately,
"catch
The
on"
the
birds
in
as
Black
the
Buff.
when
will
for
and
writer
noticed
of
those
Farm
greater
Whites"
had
sold
resembled
Buff
a
about
it
the
mouth
Ply-
wara
Tusca-
they
did
Karragansett.
A
comparison
show
to each
eye,
the
the
market
to ten
weight.
the
big
pounds
The
weight
same
Narragansett,
its
less popularity,
as
profitable
ones.
Not
were
their
rear,
long ago
higher
that
to
for
quotations
of
price
turkey
people forget that
manager
writer
well, the
and
quite
than
the
least, for
at
are
the
weight of the Buff
or
these
other.
of
are
Bronze
the
how
fairly well
the
turkeys
than
for
Anowon
turkeys
"
all
being thirty-fivecents
ijound.
However
Buff
a
somewhat
less
birds
that
recently told
and
had
are
varieties
catch
eight
birds
turkeys
will
the
actually sell better
dressing from
per
and
somewhat
smaller
A
Pennsylvania,
in
resembles
Buff
account, in part
the
sometimes
of
Slate
big birds
keys
tur-
ancestry.
therefore, that
weight relation
with
compared
perhaps
the
The
selection,
public fancy.
White,
and
the
Buif
These
much
presume,
Bronze
of these, with
The
the
Bed
heard
not
weights
for the
average
and
to
standard
less than
Island
have
We
Beds.
of
cross
an
be bred
ordinary Buff
the
Bhode
a
of such
to
a
fact, many
In
marks
Tuscawara
than
Rock.
not
variety.
turkey used
Buff
deeper plumage
very
Buff
that
subsequent
turkey, with
quite plainly the
of the
variety
White
upon
buff, which, by
to
believe
we
crossed
fowls
approximation
an
perfected,
the
produce
domestic
black-red
as
produce
selection, can
CULTURE.
turkey
originated, and
is
one
of the
mos-t
whether
beautiful
popular
varieties
or
not, the
we
have.
THE
The
rich
flesh
or
into
and
of
OE
its head
and
its pure
light
wings, harmonize
cream
the
on
its color
scheme
perfectly,and
Buff
but
plumage.
The
one
the
rears
colored
the
the
well
as
among
black
of many
birds
But
characteristics.
color
will
specimen
every
flock will
as
much
too
or
will be that out
desired
here,
difficult color to
a
white
Bronze, nearly
aright and
is
perfectly
But, and
turkeys,
much
too
result
few will possess
a
Buff
ing
fad-
buff plumage,
truly artistic.
among
fowls, there will be
in the
neck, its white,
exposed
opine, is the real difficulty,bufl
breed
31
TUEKEYS.
colored, shanks, and
make
we
if
red
BEEEDS
the
possess
desired
be
form
uni-
appearance.
THE
difEer from
These
plumage.
They
condition
The
SLATE
handsome
a
birds, and when
in
appearance
variety is also called Blue, Maltese
THE
NAEEAGANSETT
The
bay that extends
Rhode
Island.
first gave
reputation.
variety has,
borders
has
been
considerable
potent
The
in
the
and
hen
pounds,
are
:
For
twenty-two
and
variety except
are
the
pen.
in
all
state
bility,
proba-
turkeys their world-wide
the
extent, disappeared from
the
tlie
as
pounds
remained,
large
Bronze
turkey
disappearance of
gradual
is
by
the
as
no
means
Bronze.
a
The"
erel
thirty-two pounds, for cock-
each, and
heaviest
Bronze.
beautiful
though
cock
the
the
Providence, in the
Narragansett
"
weights
from
greater size of the
cause
Yet
show
Lavender.
or
variety which,
Island
variety, it is nearly
standard
to
reputation has
bay.
varieties.
other
small
a
to Rhode
a
of the
is the
It
That
to
Newport
from
prime
TURKEY.
of this variety is derived
name
the
in
the
S. BABCOCK.
H.
of
mainly in the color of
Buif
the
good market
are
make
TURKEY.
for
weights
These
teen
pullet four-
given
weights
to
are
any
not
33
CTTLTUBB.
TTTBKBT
(
'^i"s^^-i^-^-'
h
'.-
i%
THE
extreme, for they
is
pound turkey
large bird.
a
the
of
feathers
bows, which
show
black,
are
and
bars
the
wings, when
irregularlywith
white
and
The
shanks
The
plumage
looking bird.
the
causes
The
believe
than
and
The
size
sufficient
bred
and
the
interest
its
variety and
for
and
well,
and
men,
speci"
distinguished
a
is
and
the
its gray
effect is
tremely
ex-
wanting those
not
are
beautiful
really more
its richer
to have
desire
a
It has
a
its attractive
sufficient
practical qualities,to
in
of the
best varieties
to become
so
markings
its black
other
allow
not
the
paler shade.
There
eye.
that
lighter colored
between
out
brown.
or
lines
luster.
of the
one
its
magnificent Bronze, with
it is.
ought
and
the
this coloration
reasons
than
a
in
band
light gray.
except
same,
row
nar-
bluck
very
Narragansett
stand
co
abundant
more
the
to the
that
of the
that
is
contrast
markings
pleasing
who
the
distinct
more
makes
coloring
a
or
black, barred
broad
a
ondaries,
sec-
distinct
color, a deep salmon
female
The
in
generally
being usually of
its gray
This
is
end
is
sexes
male
in color.
deeper
are
gray,
are, in
both
of the
plumage
or
toes
of
feathers
and
brown,
with
margined
two
;
white
with
folded, show
Tlie tail
them.
across
and
primaries
both
nearly black, barred
or
sunshine
the
in
luster
bronzy
a
flight feathers, including
gray;
be
may
as
band
the
body
and
breast
back,
neck,
The
strikingplumage.
a
deep black, terminating with a broad lightThe
large wings have
margined with black.
described
black
although a thirty-two-
often exceeded,
are
33
TURKEYS.
OF
Narragansett turkey has
The
gray
BREEDS
many
more
birds
of
it
degree of
warrant
the
are
extensively
more
hardiness
a
renewed
turkey.
in its
common
coloring
It
tainly
cer-
originalhome,
really inferior to it
to occupy
place.
Narragansetts
The
Bronze.
Their
terminating in
3
plumage
a
not
are
is
a
so
large
metallic
as
the
Mammoth
black, each feather
broad, light steel-gray band, edged with
34
black.
These
where
birds
they
They
The
bodies, and
and
do
roam
the
its nest,
crude
materials
that
heated.
becomes
of
The
mother
a
to be
is
turkey
the
seen
the
interested, and
by far
sign of herbage,
ground of their
mound.
The
mound
has
the
the
toward
eight
or
from
The
to and
I
ready
to
are
care
peck
if in fear
as
creep
capable
the
at
of the
from
of
seen
the
on
in the
consti-ucts
correct
Ave
the
condition,
herbage
feet
from
materials
high
and
strange birds, the
mound,
base
that
mound,
a
are
female
something.
interesting
very
when
while
top, and
the
disturb
male
a
the
drive
the young
stout
the
on
flight; that they
m
towards
might
says
and
once
and
at
she
the
themselves,
most
pair. Not
scratching
gardens, in
turkey,
the
of
tience,
pa-
base.
the
him
saw
for
and
the
contained
bit
every
stead
In-
carelessness
seems
who
is about
the
from
materials
place,
they
is
he
sketching these
of the Brush
hatched
torn
dragging
across
superintendent
account
day
the
times
the
his
feet
ran
scratching
several
in
I stood
nervously
it is
huge pile, which
more
While
and
worn
therein.
to be
keeps it constantly in
apparently
ground,
what
except
other
picture of
of
one
straw, is
a
bird, for
male
cock
busier
even
runway,
and
nest
not
the
ing
construct-
fermentation,
in apparent
The
inclosure.
by
nest, the
female
turkey
sand, and
grass,
deposited
her
on
Brush
the
which,
are
eggs
strolling about
a
hand,
at
turkeys.
state, by
its wild
in
earth, leaves,
were
early,
SEWELL.
L.
it does
of
mound
set, plump
TUEKEY.
FRANKLANE
as
moth
Mam-
mature
Bronze
as
zoological gardens of London,
made
a
home
BRUSH
BY
thick
have
kets.
city mar-
the
as
quick growers,
far from
THE
In
easily reared
as
legs, are
as
the
for
grown
Narragansetts
short
not
extensively
are
land,
Eng-
New
southern
in
popular
are
hardy and
are
Bronze.
has
CULTURE.
TUEEET
and
second
are
strong,
or
third
quite unnoticed
by
36
CULTUBE.
TURKEY
either of the parent
birds
other, hunting
own
of the
roosting-place for
or
have
apparently
birds
turkey, but
American
true
shelter'
less
selecting, regard-
each
food, and
others, his
These
night.
the
their
of each
apparently careless
and
relationship
no
here
inserted
are
the
as
to
ter
mat-
a
of interest.
THE
The
the
Bronze
and
this
favoritism.
white-
hardiness
White
it is difficult to
has
sold
per
cent
advance
them.
be
it?
market
England
made
for
may
except
and
legs of
for
them.
the
a
a
series
a
of
with
male
females, and
but
not
"
up,
a
flock
as
their
with
them
a
related
to
their
sire.
for
or
three
years,
you
need
for
what
demand
a
the
but
the
may
unless
of the
color
fifty
ters
mat-
for
turkeys
England,
we
skin
tion.
considera-
little
mongrels,
farmers
variety
Prom
mate
two
New
at
book
chickens.
money,
is meant
many
of the
hens.
your
for
TUEKEYS.
turkeys
Too
this
poultry
of years,
turkey receives
or
mixed.
first-rate
your
Philadelphia market,
"common"
of breeds
get
Outside
fowl
emphatic
not
raising white
COMMON
By
is
in
yellow-legged
price of dark-legged
persisting in
By
taste
present
compiler of
The
if you
fancy, but
a
the
yellow-skinned
the
on
yellow-
yet, doubtless, it is because
Hollands,
obtain
prefer
they prefer
prefers
preference
yellow-legged and
It may
be
the
though
of
skin
as
decidedly
cause
customers
made
has
which
and
Just
ones,
Boston
England,
chickens,
private
market.
which
factors
important
Sometimes
the
for
turkeys
grow
the
are
chickens.
New
New
who
with
favorites
the
present
at
are
yellow-skinned
or
legged
the
turkeys
majority of those
Size
BREED.
BEST
market
you
have
fine male
Pursue
you
purposes.
sorts
flocks.
Get
and
want
progeny
and
such
all
"
select
of the
this
will
him
mate
same
course,
have
the
best
breed,
ing
"gradas
good
THE
INFUSING
BREEDS
BLOOD
FRESH
WILD
FROM
[From
reports of tlia Rhode
Station, wliere tliis ni;itlev lias been
37
TURKEYS.
OF
Islmid
tlie
TURKEYS.
Experiment
Agricultural
object
of
raucli
research
and
experimenting.]
"Where
and
wild
domestic
turkeys
birds
Halt
plenty,
are
frequently
Halt
9.
FIG.
the
piiotographs
part of
recorded
where
possession of
first
the
of stock
wild
flock
battling with
of
and
BLOOD
at the
of
owner
a
a
WILD
gobbler
common
Wild.
TUKKBTS.
Rhode
the
on
Wild.
Pure
Wild.
wild
design
without
occur
Domestic.
Krom
between
crosses
Island
latter.
from
Experiment
Scores
the
woods
Station.
of
cases
has
turkeys, sometimes
killing the domestic
gobbler.
are
taken
after
The
58
TURKEY
results of
so
such
a
in
found
the
in
wild
from
not
A
small
vigor, without
the
quarter-wild
wild
pure
a
countries
or
a
range,
often
of
brood
m.ake
mothers
the
wild
The
to
bird
wild
in
stock
of the
blood
breeding.
resembles
cannot
judges.
The
the
be
are
certain
disease.
wild
blood
in
any
im
well
as
as
A
way.
do
crosses
well
suited
places
as
for
the
the
to tlieir
wild.
not
nmch
woody
are
not
home
own
Half-bloods
inclined
conditions, may
wild
Half-blood
turkeys.
too
well
and
spring and
return
a
domestic
domestication
gives the
cross
It is apt
an
to
If first crosses
pure
wild,
and
distinguished from
older
and
be
reared
to
as
stray.
wild
as
woods."
for themselves.
care
small
under
young
habits
half-blood
appearance,
nearly full-grown
Quarter-bloods, under
but
of
not
they usually
their
wild
hardier
wild,
Half-wild
are
on
turkey,
practical breeding, than
disappear in
turkey hens
domestic
but
turkey hens
fall,when
until
bird.
easily kept
as
hens
first-cross
with
large
Wild
turkey.
seen
half-wild
top
come
they be-
rarely have
disadvantage
is better, for
cross
or
if allowed
general
a
the
on
egg
are
proportion
being
rate
sepa-
suitable for crossing with
are
size, form, and
the
proves
and
or
are
These
roosting
their
recover
too
eggs
domestic
crosses
generally
wild
as
they
are
common
farm.
the
the
turkeys, and
are
hens.
domestic
the
key
tur-
birds
turkey
from
than
turkey
common
hens
gobblers are
by
Wild
than
Half-blood
fearless
by
with
up
on
raised
frightened
or
quickly.
healthier
wild
young
hatched
When
gentle and
if chased
very
desired
usually persist in
birds
barn.
or
more
much
of wild
nests
and
case
others, generally in the woods
the
house
a
but
often
woods
domesticated
are
been
have
every
brought
and
purpose
turkeys. Very
young
matings
sections, and
those
caught for this
almost
in
cross
satisfactorythat such
raisers
of
CULTURE,
the
bird
grows
astonishing ability
have
are
bred
after
the
the
the
together, the
several
pure
more
fluence
strongest in-
wild
he
tions
genera-
by good
ehows
the
THE
wild
blood.
of the
The
heavy
or
OF
one-fourth
flush.
in
of the
They
weighing
ten
are
The
Rhode
Island
10.
MG.
WILD
By courtesy of the Ebode
from
colored
ment
of wild
stock
and
This
are
than
and
the
is
so
one-fourth.
smaller
confirming
were
the
managed
the
that
case
in the
has found
gobblers
with
of
all
right, and
of
obtained
wild
the
State.
over
the
blood
tijrkeys
greater
vvilder
sometimes
are
practical
Bead
purposes.
book, of
three-eighths wild
These
Reproduced
Poultry.
effect, unless
they
bird.
this invest-
Station.
it has
that
they
CONFINEMENT.
IN
latter part of this
above.
all
for
after
popular market
proportion of wild
is desired
Island
of Prudence
beneficial
In
than
experience
most
BRED
half- wild
most
table.
they will produce poults
Station
beneficial
so
to make
as
a
GOBBLER
distributed
a
the
great size, but
Island Agricultural Experiment
Book
plates in Wright's Illustrated
blood
having
bred
make
Experiment
PURE
for
pounds the first autumn
thus
and
hatched,
attain
may
speciallypopular because
twehe
tiavor
game
active,hardy, and unusually
are
will prove
to
superior
higher price
a
wild
39
TURKEYS.
much
command
firm
and
have
Crosses
wild, and
half
BREEDS
Mr.
Twcker
turkeys, fully
birds
were
those
hatched
not
tame
mpre
but
lived
40
CULTUEB.
TURKEY
than
of any
were
larger, more
uniform
and
plumper
quicker
Some
other
were
wild
fourths
blood,
selections
the
greatest
fact. Wild
their
the
often
taken
heads
head,
Half-wild
crosses
far
so
from
Their
flesh is about
wild
the
gobblers
thing
from
are
mating
a
It
will
about
thrash
to
become
that,
without
blood
from
preserved
kill
the
the
depend
by
far
forest,
the
fanciers
maintain
follow
the
laws
of
birds
raised
size, but
hardy
turkeys.
size of
on
hens,
eny.
prog-
they
as
the
lime
when
wild
distunt.
The
become
wild
those
the
the
who
of
the
much
varieties
except
domestic
breed
for
pure
required time
breeding Tiecessary
stock
fresh, hardy
very
turkeys
of
lowed
fol-
depreciate the
so
to
turkeys
methods
introduction
no
They, only, expend
Half-
attempts
salvation
"
fall.
their
it would
are
the
hens, and just
The
good
stay
in
raiser
turkey
in
turkey.
the
than
and
young
that
occtihional
man,
on
their
is
wild
their
in breeding
off
wild-cross
coop
hoped
a
tic
domes-
steal
return
influence
most
to
there
utility. They
and
and
average
'When
them.
do
be
of
only of
not
the
extinct
by the
will
has
to
turkeys.
fine dressed
not
It is to
escape.
that
as
and
roam
sure
common
make
gobbler
often
them.
than
undesirable
tliey are
manageable
are
much
red
less
with
smaller
so
almost
fine
with
cross
this
turkeys,
familiar
but
They
are
as
of
common
not
roam
that
more
thrifty, and
The
are
to
such
and
but
gives
season,
having
among
hardy,
purposes.
all summer,
away
pure
with
illustration
their
by those
hens
homo,
for market
each
an
and
seen
very
the
for
11
necks
birds
are
the
as
birds, especially the hens, owing
when
sick
turkeys, and
nests
Fig.
and
are,
for
large
as
three-
years' crossing, however,
wild-cross
slim
about
See
and
half
are
occasionally
dressed.
when
largest for breeding
size.
and
that
fatted
heartier,
ate
handsomer
and
they
had, and
ever
size,
in
crosses
are
of the
has
Tucker
Several
turkeys.
the
to
Bronze
wild
Bronze
lot Mr.
to
erated.
degenthose
turkey
beauty
and
and
perfect
and
money,
prevent
the
THE
FIG,
11.
BKEEDS
PART
WILD
OF
41
TURKEYS.
BRONZE
BLOOD
TURKEY.
his sire had onehen, while
thirty-six pounds, and at
weighed
one-half pounds,
twenty-eight months
tipped the scales at forty-eight and
State poultry shows.
and York
England
winning first prizes both years at New
if it added
ing
nothThe
accession
of wild
blood only three,removes
back, even
to its vitality
contributed
to the great weight of this bird, unquestionably
This bird. Eureka,
was
blood.
fourth wild
and
from
At
a
thoroughbred
sixteen
the brilliancy of its plumage.
months
Bronze
he
43
TURKEY
from
stock
running
the
appreciate
fancy
CULT0EE.
generally,
to
cease
scoff
at
prices?
STANDAED
OP
American
The
determine
the
10,
1, breast
for
points
qualifications
weight
30,
and
EXCELLENCE.
of
standard
of
scale
l.aok
and
service
such
of
value
farmers,
will
When
out.
of
10,
10,
wings
which
head
8,
tail
judges
birds
exhibition
5,
5,
wattle
legs
metry
Sym-
:
5,
5,
lowing
fol-
the
gives
by
turkeys,
condition
body
excellence
iieck
total
5,
100.
44
tliey
itself,and
business
the
it limits
If
so
people would
many
FIG.
From
price
would
the
than
down
to
a
be
profit
that
business
the
a
wholesome,
so
Khode
Island
the
flock.
point.
non-paying
a
at
paying
TtTRKEYS.
effectuallyprevents
are
first few
any
not
weeks
other
hard
of
to raise
their
domesticated
feathered
and
have
than
any
other
care
HOLI/AND
get
second,
all danger
of
Turkey
overdoing
business.
Turkeys
the
WHITE
photojjraph of
a
come
itself
nature
12.
into
;
be raised
not
reasons.
man
who
persons,
would
go
for
food
turkeys could
fiesh
confinement, their
and
fewer
they will
or
trait, for two
flesh better
to
prices for their labor.
privilege
fortunate
a
the bird's
it makes
First,
is
This
die.
and
sicken
that
have
must
asserts
food
of their
in search
to wander
propensity
their
in
CULTURE.
TUEKEY
lives
fowl.
they require
bird, but
"thrown
the
It
know
after you
aftf
red,"
requires
r
how.
more
they
are
they require
but
For
care
fully
less
little capitaL
TURKEY
Houses,
other
and
One
and
torn
with.
farmers
Wlien
then
five to
Many
raise
can
will
"bother
dollars
is
and
other
necessary
think
to
the
eny,
prog-
enlarging
of
ought
excellent
an
raise
to
can
your
seventy-
work
to
the
without
which
for
does
from
earn
according
market,
business
husband
wife, whose
year,
range
begin
to
nearly all, of their
or
of six you
poultry,"
a
enough
turkeys.
raising
with
time
flock
a
farmer's
a
be
all,
on
tliey need.
grain
are
in
raised
be
must
tlie
you
hundred
Turkey
of
live lien turkeys
From
one
mucli
turkey sheds
and
Turkeys
tliree to
it
business.
raise
45
BUSINESS.
North,
ni'inlod.
not
are
A
AS
in tiie extreme
except
sections,
farms,
GROWING
not
fifty
size
women.
three
to
to
care
dred
hun-
flock, the
of the
the
seriously impeding
falls
the
to
of
lot
farmers'
wives.
It
is
to
unnecessary
criterion, for they
for
Thanksgiving
from
eighteen
Whoever
in
liberty
where
is
have
we
in
which
on
barnyards,
attacks
stream
land
of
to
quality.
that
price
same
affect
as
bowel
other
from
run,
they
pigpens
or
trouble
is of great value
a
be
a
over
which
from
turkey farm.
' '
may
change
another.
stagnant
vaults, sudden
expected.
flock
occupy
to
to
year
drink
privy
must
on
If
necessary
may
largest
light land, and
flocks
one
going
fore-
the
they wander
it is sometimes
they
found
the
introduced.
which
kept where
are
in
Boston,
"To
:
rather
on
frequently
and
ground, hence
turkeys
fatal
Station
said, that
contaminated,
land
pools
be
diseased, the
same
at the
1894,
; in
remember
must
bought
Experiment
blood
new
become
the
is
pound
according
cents,
thrifty looking turkeys
becomes
If
should
most
per
In
vigilance.
Island
it
cents
a
as
retailed
turkeys
turkey raising
raising turkeys
Ehode
and
in
localities.
Christmas,
twenty-five
to
eternal
"
different
to twelve
ten
engages
success
in
so
and
Indianapolis for
the
vary
prices here
market
quote
and
A
ning
run-
V.
CHAPTEE
In
raise
reserving
matter, the
turkeys
the
young
become
So
with
When
the
deemed
much
breeds
One
the
upon
When
only
are
not
be
kept,
but
for
be
may
A.
prize
stock
J.
for
depends
ancestry.
makes
for exhibition
stock
Ee-
inferiority
purposes,
marketing,
pure
cross
objectionable.
year-old toms
to
old tom
to
apt
birds
parent
Mrs.
Home
future
some
new
it
As
ones.
may
first-class
a
your
and
"The
inferior
essayist produced
is
old
first Farm
grown
should
get
parent birds, or their
from
breeding
hereditary."
strains
the
the
stock
the
others, whenever
turkey culture, says:
on
peated
the
took
and
have
you
progeny
value, for
renew
hens
they
enfeebles
breeding
or
the
after
the
age
replenish
sity
neces-
necessary.
good heifers
same
then
;
if
knows
and
raising,
own
years,
their
dispose of
to
Sexson, who
very
them
to
produce
to
If
He
young
months-old
twelve-
or
hatched.
proved
of your
place of
proper
essays
best
to
portant
im-
eggs,
six
or
The
have
wish
Ten-
of your
stock
to
most
a
lay larger
better, until
turkeys.
you
related
take
from
and
they
stock, select the
not
turkeys
first calves.
better
kept, after
time.
to
parents.
will kill off his
their
dropped
parent.
tom
the
three, four, five
judicious fanner
will
be
not
stronger when
breed
to
you
keep the hens
have
Old
larger and
overlook
do
sufficientlymature
not
are
strongest progeny.
No
of
age
the
forces
which
selecting parent stock from
or
turkeys for the market,
are
STOCK.
PAKENT
OF
8ELECTI0K
the
best
results
four-year-old hens.
attain
a
great weight
46
A
by mating
four-
if
or
two-
five-year-
kept well fed,"
SELECTION
for
heavy
too
It
small
from
two
man
old
old
There
immature
too
too
fat, the
raise
turkeys
left
their
on
As
Cush-
Mr.
having something
hands.
is to violate
specimens
poor
of
keys
tur-
kill off the
to
season.
dread
a
that
know
continue
breeding
to be
seems
to
who
Many
young,
after
unsalable
or
birds.
are
for market
:
or
be
attempt
many
immature
years
says
too
aud
hens
young
47
STOOB..
Besides, if he
hens.
surprising how
is
PARENT
get fertilized.
fail to
eggs
the
OF
To
breed
one
of
from
the
first
"'*^"*%y!^"
13.
FIG.
laws
of
MB.
BLOODGOOD'S
has
given
The
hereditary influence
The
most
the
a
best
inferior
back"
"throw
than
us
much
repeated
and
bird
and
of such
out
breed
selection
mainly
this
on
the
of
very
of
HOLLAND
WHITE
TUKKETS.
best, for generations,
of the
most
finer specimen
generations, makes
depends
OF
Selections
breeding.
the
FLOCK
profitable breeds
selections
flock of
a
fine
froai
inferior
a
of stock.
is of great value.
such
blood
stock, and
do
may
better
poor-bred strain
birds
for
a
inferiority hereditary.
parent birds,
or
their
number
The
; but
of
stock
ancestry.
48
The
successful
most
hesitating
in
a
fortunate
the
turkey
to secure
the
of the
of
eggs
of
be
number
vigor and
male
the
presence
He
and
able
the
proprietor
of the
have
that
cry,
an
;
world,
pastime,
Even
of
with
in
good
be
modest
its
strong and
nobody
else,
demeanor,
yet
them
a
gently
Lords
people.
people of all ranks
engage
in
for what
more
this
enthusiastic
an
Ehode
Island
and
and
the
love
it is
her
these
carriage, as
for
food,
one.
ladies
life,in
charming
money
utters
foraging
every
in
wilhng
thieves; she
raising of turkeys had
the
charge of
lordly master;
about
the
house, where
she
as
graceful form
to
to
young;
from
safe
her
moves
has
the
near
voice,
charms
with
who
of her
tree
some
respond
to
woman
welfare
the
flute-like
so
that
for many
all
should
nothing and
be
object of interest
wonder
Europe
display of
by the
to
gallant to his wives, insisting
think
soft
a
quietly and
her
for
may
qualities,combined
of the
stranger, yet seeming
a
"gobbles,"
high in
to roost
peculiar
in
his
to
proud, stately, haughty,
him, and
solicitous
flock;
No
according
be
quick, alert, brigliteye; ready
the
make
may
run,
twenty,
turkey should
gentle ministrations
she
may
tliey do.
female
should
he
to
of
always
shall admire
doubtless
a
which
plumage
he
as
be
should
they
The
his
to
voice,
His
rapid.
with
should
attention
beauty.
that
bird
resent
to
attract
three
copulations ; the
first
by the
litter
from
turkey fertilizes
strength.
The
ready
the
times
four
or
fowls, the male
hens, therefore, with
number
any
three
at
himself
bird.
entire
an
of
bler
gob-
or
think
should
raiser
best
domestic
other
Unlike
killing price for the best hen
flock,the
value
market
$15 to $25, including
pay
satisfactory gobbler. Instead
a
the
to pay
often
raisers
charges, for
express
as
CULTUEE.
TUEKET
of
such
high degree
nearly all parts
pursuit;
work
for the
customary
nation
fasci-
some
brings them;
for
but
beautiful
birds.
kill
off and
to
.
the
market
and
and
to
flocks in
run.
one
14.
FIG.
nental
best
A
by Sewell'for
(St
Farm
late
of the
this bird
"
size,
temptation
possible from
money
returns
turkeys
the
tonstuiit
are
less
Some
FBIZB-WnnrENG
PmUry,
On
a
breeders.
for
mSSOUBI
Louis) show.
is
of
the
but
season,
the
Save
". portrait
There
largest amount
get the
from
inevitably decreases
This
stock.
the
out
runs
49
STOCK.
to breed
largest birds, and
gobblers.
small
PARENT
OF
SELECTIOK
in
the
the
long
change
experts
BBONZE.
first-prizebird at
with
the
Mid-CoDtl-
luster like burnished
plumage
white, on a body with lines truly
thoroughbred, and as a thirty-six pound yearling was
a most
shapely Bronze
gobbler. He carried a deep, round
breast, and thick thighs; heavily meated,
with fine-grainedfiesh.
He was
torn of twenty-eig^t
a qnlek-maturing
pounds
with
copper;
at six months
gobblers
and
have
two
every
either test the
saddle
tips almost
weeks
turned
out
a
pure
of age."
or
season,
gobbler
was
a
as
a
before
every
other
breeder,
or
season,
know
they depend
how
upon
but
they
his progeny
him.
It is
50
TURKEY
best
to
have
lord
of
the
gobbler
extra
an
flock
be
breeders
western
OULTUEB.
that
agree
chicks
from
a
young
better
than
a
two-year-old.
maintain
also
other
every
I.
K.
that
could
from,
birds
breeding
should
Barber
Mr
"For
Twelve
more
old
the
they
lay
ones
stronger
poults,
young
and
larger
hardier
lay
soft-shelled
the
the
eggs,
poulta."
so
old
and
weighing
eggs.
method
hens
to
they
would
will
hatch
mash
do,
raise.
and
will
varieties,
or
:
and
number,
as
many,
the
course,
hens
correct
ones,
bred
not
decide
heavy-weight
break
not
the
adult
to
are
as
is
torn
be
hens.
same
Kentucky
you
they
another
and
as
bler
gob-
as
full-breasted
variety
one
they
will
large,
buy.
you
long
Of
too
take,
mis-
finest
the
yearly
or
extra-choice
as
gobbler.
upon
any
hens
if
of
ers
grow-
a
the
with
broad-backed,
to
young
and
eggs,
incubating,
of
mated
prefer
note
of
ones
hens
some
this
select
short-legged
to
apt
are
adds
breeders,
be
not
bird
should
kept
strange
a
the
from
failed
disposed
with
make
with
him
bred
be
be
pounds
twenty
over
should
mated
unless
mated
is
season,
to
is
procured
one
and
turkey
every
know
you
gobbler
should
progeny
and
kept
the
he
and
procured,
if
that
be
gobblers
if
so,
found,
until
not
The
be
could
they
lived;
think
thrifty
three-year-old
a
suggested,
Many
obtain
successful
change
was
maintains,
seldom
Many
to
as
don't
we
Pelch
hens,
that
can
that
the
accident.
or
and
should
on,
disease
one
gobbler,
season,
but
by
lost
back
fall
to
when
so
while
from
lay
many
the
them
5:i
TUKKEY
Do
food
overfeed
not
with
diet
cold
night, such
the
birds'
crops
hot
mush,
made
the
on
grow
mixed
with
season
this
and
then
with
be
is
of
measure
two
parts
scraps,
mixed
or
meat
of thick
chopped
with
Let
what
they
Then
the
on
in
clean
dishes
The
avidity
astonishing.
time
winter
the
with
I
them
short
be
fed
your
turkeys
in
at
for
is long
an
screenings,
and
the
fowls
consistency
the
meal
is
Feed
surfeit
selves.
them-
the
over
Keep
litter
clean
water
time, also pounded
if you
devour
or
broken
keep poultry.
this
gravel. Feed
crushed
part
enough.
found, by experience,
than
toes,
pota-
one
unsightly pile of
outhouse
or
One
boiled
them
for it.
all the
having
which
have
them
need
are
scratch
barn
your
it is better
shells before
eggs
of
to
let
much
breakfast:
little grain broadcast
occasionally. Keep
clover
In
Don't
before
need
behind
clean.
let them
vessels
Xo
minutes
a
need
stand, covered, until
Fifteen
up
throw
floor, and
crockery.
or
eat
can
water
now
is less essential.
apples),
sweet
boiling
it
thoroughly swelled.
that
mashed
(or twojiarts
week
a
little salt
parts wheat
uicul, two
corn
raw
dough.
A
birds'
the
a
which
"
times
cattle, which
for
is
potatoes, all
three
ijepper.
linrued
onions
i)art chopped
one
black
mixture
my
mashed
or
Idaho,
meal, cropped
corn
objectionable, but
not
are
Two
long,
then
turnip tops,
or
"
meat
a
to
breakfast
as
cellar,
or
cayenne
not
may
best
The
wuter.
of
use
Maine
from
vegetable matter,
boiling
by tlie
have
we
that
approximate
can
screenings,
turnips in the
Here
part by
as
of wheat
Turkeys
salt.
natural
fasting through
After
empty.
are
other
or
You
birds
soft feed.
and
winter's
onions
flock. The
your
seeds.
domesticated
your
grain
scraps,
and
berries
grass,
worms,
starve
or
turkey, in its vrild state, consists of insects,
the
of
CULTCKE.
material
that
is
in the
chopped
rowen
granulated
oyster
always.
days
of
northern
Remember,
noon.
market.
danger
our
of
Keep
proving
you
them
winters,
are
too
sterile.
much
not
not
fat
Many
fattening
and
the
breed-
CARE
ing
turkeys
overfed,
die
of
hens
time
that
thin.
Feed
in
better
the
the
grain
they
can
the
stove
in
pans
the
over
boil,
fire
until
or
hot
their
or
crops,
of
night
which
stands
found
always
These
are
know
well
until
fourteen
Diseases
are
that
America"
through
the
which
laying
we
it will
to
our
the
the
in
taken
winter,
even
the
more
grain
feeding
directions
and
turkey
as
In
to
of
come
and
the
.the
feeding
cleanliness
they
heading.
proper
now
care
ter
win-
ing
dur-
whole
latitudes.
flock
we
long
observant
their
one
fill
condition.
regards
under
of
a
scatter
them,
of
crop
northern
As
A
plan
to
come
turkeys
before
good
by
seen
foregoing
treated
requires
season.
be
full
this
the
more.
is
a
poultry
my
have
so
followed
applicable.
Presuming
epoch,
eat,
adapted
wholly
not
hours
kettle
Then
let
for
calling
whole
iron
it
is hot.
fioor, and
fifteen
I
California
kernel
noon.
dripping
an
Let
water.
at
in
into
give
hot
the
it
grain
hot
cease
need.
kept
the
the
cannot
heat
may
every
or
all
starchy
will
grain
them
they
less
they
some
give
with
they
and
tliey
;
because
and
clover
thom
put
over
directions,
and
are.
you
it
are
grower,
South
fill
in
winter,
or
oven,
they
them
of
You
eat.
and
grain
hens
sundown,
food
more
lay earlier
turkey
eny
prog-
Late-hatched
vigorous.
need
they
The
overfeeding.
will
Throw
Frequently
food.
time
and
part
satisfaction.
just before
the
old
latter
Then
the
been
having
spring,
less
all
surplus,
a
the
of
are
growing
up
in
result
a
birds
are
store
food
as
53
STOCK.
fattening
too
over-fat
cannot
are
given
this
at
over-fat
are
or
BKEEUING
OF
"Birds
to
another
watchfulness"
of
VII.
CHAPTER
t-ATTNG
As
the
hundred
laying
of
years
of
nature
From
the
the
hiding
turkey,
places
of
given
able
book
told
tales
invaluable
are
of
some
of
in
The
of
essays
the
experience,
give
the
tions
contribu-
Being
published.
they
fulness
watch-
until
cease
A'aluable
most
personal
details
the
the
ever
varied
not
cording
ac-
seek
to
the
themseU'es.
of
care
literature
turkey
to
take
to
and
begin,
must
April,
Here
eggs.
sliy
secrecy.
begins
she
climate,
lay her
to
keeper
this
in
and
which
in
the
are
young
latitude
of
four
the
of
love
middle
the
to
her
of
that
changed
not
her
February
find
we
have
robbed
nor
of
the
approaches,
season
domestication
middle
to
HATCHING.
AND
ply
sim-
they
attention
to
are
little
things.
The
hen
craking
turkey
and
his
than
She
leaves.
location.
selects
Your
allowed
the
weasels,
minks,
to
you
you,
"As
is
an
soon
laying,
prepared
I
coyotes
important
I
hear
which
drive
nests
them
in
and
the
a
turkey
they
into
hay,
of
them
with
54
saving
horse
nest
of
soil
of
the
barn,
eggs
for
its
same,
if
in
skunks,
pels
com-
eggs,
to
writes,
that
before
lays
"lried
success,
woman
making
do
turkey
the
to
tentions
at-
plumage
foxes,
Vermont
always
the
do
from
The
One
his
dry
a
his
gallant,
made
obstacles
little.
in
hen
will
danger
other
matter.
any
on
musical,
more
of
being
nest
the
nature
beauty
shrubbery
But
and
state, the
domesticated
assist
noise,
craking
the
the
dense
chance.
as
jjrouder
wild
ground,
peculiar,
assiduous
more
grows
her
that
is
torn
displays
In
the
make
to
He
and
ever.
on
eggs
the
wives.
"gobbles"
more
her
and
noise,
to
begins
peculiar
they
where
them.
begin
I
have
Some-
LAYING
times
I have
them
shut
I
drive them
to
them.
they will become
have
them
One
May."
encloses
the
a
man,
who
large
space
prevent
woods
and
driven
the
within
the
forenoon
When
for
and
if
secrecy,
from
your
dried
leaves
nest
in
but
remove
or
litter in
bushes
the
she
then
and
has
The
cool
eggs
have
her
in
far from
the
layed her
litter
litter,when
should
be taken
during
readily
love
of
doors, by
places
If
not
far
with
coops,
she
for
steals
her
house, leave her alone,
a
she
nest
will
in the
egg
should
into
the
be
house
in wheat
nest.
awhile,
rest
she
(not cold) place, packed
are
more
"A"
will do.
them,
closure.
en-
nests.
out
or
in
selected
secluded
Barrels,
the
turkey's
lay
daily, leaving
eggs
lay another
sit.
to
ting,
net-
turkeys
are
the
first of
confined
young
to
setting
hen
have
Humor
barn.
not
all
their
for her
coops
house
some
When
and
prefer
you
and
the
season,
like
wire
provided within
are
three
turkeys,
of
fence
laying
until
day,
the
with
success
to roost, and
controlled.
setting laying
a
enclosure
hatching, they
cared
Nests
I
about
til
un-
or
nests.
set
high
a
laying
each
to
turkeys
the
laid two
their
to
great
by
fields.
always persevere
I
begin
has
the
During
mornings, keeping
attached
laying and
to
in several
they have
After
eggs,
finish
55
forenoon, but
in all the
conquer
HATCHING.
AND
and
allowed
and
bran,
to
kept in
small
end
downward.
Turkey
Coincide
her sit
eggs
with
in
less
necessary
taught
upon
hay.
to
the
If
that
staves
in retired
are
hen
boxes
three
not
the
the
will shed
three
situations
for
from
knocked
than
days for incubation.
turkey's desire
places hidden
Bottomless
or
require twenty-eight
hatching
feet
"A"
turkeys are
set
the
purposes.
laid
the
the
The
dogs.
on
their
two
ing
measur-
are
all that
turkeys
were
should
nest
leaves
let
base, placed
house,
If
of forest
in barrels
coops,
at
square
far from
made
and
men
rain, old barrels with
lay in them, all the better.
ground, and
and
secrecy,
sight of
out,
not
for
or
be
chopped
sides,holes
56
TTJEKET
should
rain
be bored
water,
laid
earlier
wait
until
your
time,
or
the
save
in the
the
the
chicks
and
far wrong.
not
of
Rocks.
; the
eggs
be
not
with
turkey
if
have
some
danger
their
been
threatened
oyster shell?;,clean
to
them
all the
In
setting
the
using
Hold
of
the
the
skin
powder.
lice
the
are
same
the
so
and
Scatter
detected
and
Keep
of them
he
sheds.
or
While
day,
every
keys
tur-
in three
once
their
whole
are
snow
time.
on
will
with
storms
than
tom
turkeys
when
nest
wheat,
corn,
good dust bath
a
fowl
common
Persian
bellows
made
accessible
flour of
which
equal lice in
again,
they
can
days before
but
put
no
well
all
the
purpose.
up,
part
every
of
some
over
are
the
that
receive
weeks
power
be
sold for
may
four
assail
(Pyrethrum),
doing this,
sulphur
the
turkey, thoroughly
powder
and
feather
every
and
insect
operation again, for of
prevalent. Yet
hen
water
before
Two
the
eggs.
other
starve
by the legs while
disarrangements
dozen
to
If the
twenty.
bathe
oftener
their
with
little
hen
known
eight turkey
or
same
mouth
Ply-
or
time.
them
powder
the
and
nests
Cochins,
cold
was
common
place in barns
possible, at
to feed
litter
him, although
late and
take
North,
broody
more
and
March
May.
first
seven
to
or
must
off
come
one
be
season
rarely lea\e
days;
place
are
Calculate
extreme
under
sixteen
if
that
eggs,
hens
common
hen
cover
incubation
all the
Set
do
to
If the
the
prevail,
may
in
tlie
Brahmas,
as
each
litter.
first in the
eggs
eggs.
them,
set
out
that
out
litter,if they
to
come
sitting turkeys, confine
likely
him.
want
will
these
Under
the
annoys
you
June
sitting stock,
good
first
to let
spoil the
to
the
Presuming
layed quite early, set
hens
barrel
turkey has laid her second
April in the South,
are
of
than
the
enough
water
eggs
season
that
so
of
underside
hold
it may
or
Carefully
the
in
CUITTTEE.
the
go
nest.
the
If
through
enemies, hindrances
and
poultry
half
and
grower,
no
persistency,
conquered,
subdued
or
and
are
terminated.
ex-
hatching, thoroughly powder
sulphur
on
the
nest.
If
the
LAYING
be
nest
tepid
the
upon
Remember,
she
knows
be
shy
has
when
convenient
Incubators
batching
to
may
advice
my
roam
impossible.
is,
is
makes
easy
down
she
learn
enough,
the
the
with
eggs
used
the
watchfulness
turkey
let
needs
not
in
rearing
the
of
it
in
if
and
they
help.
but
eggs,
The
first.
way
disposition
She
alone.
turkey
old-fashioned
but
her
your
hatching
essary,
nec-
"fussing."
bath,
a
need
are
resents
business,
and
will
be
the
to
hungry,
her
to
and
care
of
settled
is
of
sprinkling
no
while
nature
she
57
HATCHING.
necessary.
that
the
After
ground,
be
will
water
AND
of
confinement
the
turkey
so
far
VIII.
CHAPTEE
TTIKKEYS
TEAINING
In
France,
when
hens
thirty
for
to
round.
The
number
of
a
of
part
the
Fanciers'
English
"To
a
those
still
are
few
is
Secure
not
together
nailed
use
but
;
left
space
of
piece
the
one
canvas
clear
or
her
five
give
brandy
any
and
other
great
she
in
done,
the
or
six
water
liquor
of
for
bottom
whole,
in
out
eggs.
(half
box
the
center,
of
take
bread,
and
capable
half),
of
58
giving
best
box,
quite
turkey
in
a
slight
this
red
and
'
A
well.
bird
in
bed
of
nest
gently,
whisky
or
little
a
good
in
to
cover
the
and
soaked
laths
with
a
to
fastened
Four
place
the
her
cover,
keeps
the
Then
pieces
and
turkey
allow
is the
do
purse.
the
stone.
the
over
a
The
every
to
by
air, will
of
of
enough
wire,
after
broody
give
to
shut
turkeys
business.
reach
heavy
a
put
the
covers
china
be
by
them
the
high
must
boards
two
the
enough
piece
a
slightly hollowed
hay,
few
over
or
On
is
get
expensive
not
not
down
between
dark.
had
incubator,
generally
wide
box
kept
or
it
an
beyond
though
This
it.
is
and
long
ease,
in
hooks,
by
or
and
box
up
how
possess
they
as
It
complete
stand
not
training.
simple,
a
do
precious,
days'
do
to
sit whenever
to
of
account
large
a
hens
has
who
hens
turkey
an
where
yeai
Oazette.
who
more
process
her
to, gives
the
turkey
woman,
keep
employed
are
establishments,
French
her
beguiling
them
wants
A
work.
which
employ
turkey
breeders
interruptions,
used,
are
mothers
sections,
many
turkeys,
hatching
incubators
in
success
large
certain
occasional
with
incubation,
and
sitters
sitters, and
as
TIME.
ANY
as
In
scarce.
hundred
one
AT
SIT
used
are
are
used
mostly
are
from
turkeys
hens
broody
TO
wine
a
and
or
water,
elevation
'
;
60
CULTUEB.
TURKEY
market
they will
;
"Above
all
others,
expensive;
much
less
their
chair
gives
from
and
again,
turned
a
get
in
sets
All
a
to
large, costs nothing
handful
of
that
is, when
corn
the
crops
always full, and
they
find
their
few
a
winters
The
have
to
round,
for
be
not
to
food
of
will
four
not
of same
into
to
come
litre of
one
five pence
the
day than
clean
that
of
labor
more
the
the
the
dreaded.
to
the
;
a
Four
As
fill up
incubator.
With
Of
and
mild
the
the
and
the
slightestneglect
of
cost
feeding
an
quality,
not
evening,
a
not
expose
turkeys, nothing
submissive
whole
of
rate
than
think
it
once
quantity of
the
day,
more
nests
water, etc., without
may
incubator
at the
the
eggs,
x"er
eat
I do
from
ought
do, the
we
consume,
trouble,
ing
dur-
hundred
one
will
hens
months.
two
require their
heating of
first
a
may
of food
we
turkeys will
for
to take
the
of
time
breed
machine
petroleum
turn, morning
lamp,
of
cost
We
severe.
nevertheless, if
will
on
climate, the
expense
the
the
account
Such
litre.
threepence worth.
makes
Thus
turkeys, which
capacity.
about
is also
home,
great quantities the
in
for the
amply
ground.
fixed
our
very
ter
win-
stable, where
a
turkeys during
our
brooding.
taken
rarely
they produce
i)ays
In
they
come
wheel,
ground.
and
jieriod,winch
services
old
are
and
the
in
flock
a
severe
night, they
an
"
until
up
sit down
Mine
wood,
covers
shut
are
the
feed
to
which
year
that
from
long,
not
manure,
whole
At
perch
ideal
feet
are
calculate
snow
to
keep.
to
meal,
any
or
jump
country,
witli
lawn, partly planted
their
stake
the
In
me.
and
will
readers
beg them
I
is not
them
mothers,
foster
of my
artificial
or
with
breed
or
Some
splendid condition.
in
are
"
to
quietly
it very
never
first ;
animated
reading this;
at
of turkeys, be
on
be
trouble.
listen
out
it
using incubators
as
to
sent
remainder.
may
the
are
and
be fattened
do
which
trial ; those
a
can
for the
pay
brooders, turkeys
so
give them
satisfaction
give entire
not
and
wanted,
as
more,
a
eggs,
counting
contents
like this is to be
disposition, they
can
TURKEYS
TEAINING
be
handled
in any
to tlieir care.
tenderness
all sorts
"
Last
Bantam
in
Having
eggs.
different
wild, and
them
would
them
immediately
began
to
had
got
quite
not
taken
we
they
turkeys.
so
eggs,
and
came,
flock
My
sisted
con-
get broody after twenty-
days later,
brooded
these, which
of
got three
hens
where
few
a
training. Two
hours'
one
train
I
small
the
lot
from
large birds, which
of three
to
back
sittings of
ready,
broody
destroyed the
have
I sent
away.
the
own,
few
a
same
pheasants.
of
or
sight of
the
At
their
from
geese
broody hens
the
with
England
from
no
neighborhood.
my
four
received
of the eggs
any
breed
tlieyof
be
CI
TIME.
AKT
break
will
They
of eggs,
I
year
AT
seldom
and
way,
entrusted
SIT
TO
them
I gave
all the
without
eggs
breaking
a
single one.
' '
Turkeys
chickens
well.
I
of prey,
which
abound
proximity of
the
young
ones,
are
three
or
a
four
as
newcomers
whose
chicks
of
had
been
of
joined
months
two
and
be
times
some-
house.
allowed
to
If
run
goodies will
chickens, and
I often
own.
of
their
go
the
fighting. These
their
as
they like,
may
with
turkeys,
my
yards from
addition
or
tenderly
than
more
hundred
danger
change
any
where
run
birds
or
around, because
grounds
other, several
together without
accept
in the
to
by vermin
taken
one
forest,although
free
each
they know
had
never
protect their
mothers, and
attentive
very
are
brood
the
turkeys,
saw
ens
others, adopt large chick-
to
old, which
had
been
forsaken
by the hen.
"
their
away
.
Training turkeys
managed.
Therefore,
brooded
They
will
ask
you
may
let them,
now,
if my
to
sit
by experience, and
favorite
brooding
them
allow
they have
"And
them
to sit does
laying qualities, when
after
;
force
to
and
raised
readers
not
have
machines
they have
no
fear
trial,and
finished
of
in
hearsay, they
a
of eggs
early chickens.
your
will believe
upon
properly
are
lay their batch
to
immediately
and
they
take
not
ing
lay-
overworking.
one
who
will
admit
speaks
give
my
afterwards
62
that
French
we
Doubtless
Le
not
poultry for
that
are
when
he
wants
box
sack
He
nest.
day he
If
depended
six weeks.
over
turkeys
at
the
keep
to
their
to
should
be
not
thus
Stevenson
Mr
time, without
any
broody.
given her,
proper
do
to
weeks,
this
successfully
violating his
can
care,
for ten
made
the
By the third
are
nests
A
dark.
become
eggs
Turkeys, imder
size.
This
darken
to
or
and
eggs
growing
days.
thirty
to
twenty
barrel
a
them.
on
opening,
uses
winter,
china
turkey has
the
in
ten
is
lightly for three
very
best results
for
but
over
upon
it
when
hung
her
to
to
his
and
the
nest
puts the turkey
or
has, from
she
six
warms
tell whether
can
In
a
out
with-
treats
old.
makes
evening,
is
juice. He
tame,
he
that
succeeds
very
them,
son,
Steven-
E.
them
years
may
Journal
Poultry
grape
ten
nest, and
feeds
according
be
the
quilt
or
set
this
W.
time, and
to
size, then
in the
in
is done
three
to
of suitable
puts them
have
and
Mr
success.
or
corn
to
as
so
from
hens
or
giving whisky
to
purpose,
to sit at any
turkeys
kindly,
any
Reliable
the
writes
administering either
turkeys
opposed
insure
to
even
of Arkansas,
his
be
would
to
necessary,
trains
stories
always tell boastful
not
' '
many
spirits
any
or
do
people
propagate hoaxes.
he
CULTUEE.
TUEKET
work
sets
his
Prohibition
principles.
turkeys
be
can
that
turkey hen
there
and
eggs,
Cushman
Samuel
Mr.
to
never
laid
first two
and
placed
was
left uncovered
she
which
and
We
could
This
control
nest
not
was
and
shut
she
found
out
go
not
turkeys
a
of
a
slat
ofE to
better
on
A
nest
a
young
of china
to settle down.
feed, she
caught
was
in, but after that tlie
off
off when
the
nest.
front, so she
sight of
tame
shut
getting her
came
her
set had
was
put
required.
was
in
was
and
never
turkey
our
the
on
egg
trouble
she
times
The
chose.
no
an
experience, that
own
sit whenever
made
was
his
from
says,
one,
the
by
nest
any
if set within
whenever
she
The
shed
was
confined
or
means.
a
nest
get
in
away.
We
can
large building
TBAINING
or
enclosure.
hens,
an
until
desired
ducks
artificial
hens
number.
TO
TURKEYS
Turkeys
and
hatcher
get
ready
be
can
the
and
geese,
will
to
SIT
raiser
have
not
set,
used
or
until
hatch
to
who
the
does
delay
to
he
63
TIME.
ANT
AT
can
of
eggs
not
hive
operations
secure
tha
IX.
CHAPTER
EEAEING
The
the
require
first
depends
delicate
of
sudden
do,
time
The
themselves
removed
and
be
in
outdoors,
in
bed
or
and
be
by
to
a
day,
spare
the
attempt
with
meet
as
a
to
not
a
dry
but
dry
horse
in
chicks
severe
for
and
warm
;
under
where
been
is
from
plenty
the
provided,
droppings,
all
over
made
a
bed
the
if
it
out
yolk,
following
be
may
damp,
placed
windy,
or
in
not
of
to
twenty-four
the
a
close
ventilation,
being
of
be
may
falling
or
wind
to
previously
until
and
left
nest,
body
though
cover,
there
protected
their
twenty
cold
the
chicks
fine, they
if
shells
just
feeding
no
be
may
of
the
into
themselves,
the
front
of
shell, drawn
kept
owner,
having,
sustained
by
though
any
situation
having
the
by
prevent
be
shells
hours,
require
day
shed
open
warm
most
to
times
sis
only
placed
The
the
better
are
atmosphere,
A
cold.
so,
or
the
large
to
sufficiently
If
they
(the
requiring,
unable
the
interference
box,
a
from
emerging
day.
the
liable
and
attention,
will
of
exterminated
or
are
broken
something
getting
hours
hours,
who
twenty-four
for
are
shower,
they
having
fussy
any
made
slight
the
disappointment.
chicks,
without
broods
necessary
for
delicate
entire
for
rearing.
turkey
i)oultry), and
those
the
of
exceeding
two
every
turkeys,
and
losses
a
for
give
breeding
they
or
feeding
to
being
management
failure
or
but
wind
the
will
they
attention
constant
on
douiesticated
any
advisable
is
and
chick^
cold
for
success
decimated,
only
they
the
when
and
utmost
hatched,
been
having
weeks,
ten
or
Turkeys,
it
breedei-'s
eight
chicks
not
chicks
turkey
CHICKS.
TUHKEY
THE
the
chaff, dry
of
dry
sand
best.
dust
saw-
and
a
coal
ashes,, to
which
should
hatched
previously lime-washed,
be
under
common
but
the
If you
dusted
should
be
poults
given the mother
mother
with
will
be
to the
that
damp,
be very
the
The
prefer bottoms
breeders
hatching, there
before
days
two
hens
ground
unless
necessary.
inside.
Some
turkey in the night.
coops,
chicks
coop,
it, facing
over
and
mother
the
pouth, and
arising, place the
damp
prevent
65
CHICKS.
TUEKBY
THE
EEARING
is
powder
insect
lice
no
not
to annoy
them.
On
On
meal.
food
their
receive
may
growers
"sloppy"
: no
agree
first
giv- 1
be
the
en
point all turkey
one
must
chicks
day the
second
the
young
In
birds.
ural
nat-
a
state, turkey
feed
chicks
ilies,spi-
upon
d
e r s
ly
large-
pers,
grasshop-
,
grubs,snails,
slugs, worms,
ant
if
etc., and
eggs,
watched
a
on
bright day will be
15.
FIG.
be
to
seen
PEN
CONFINE
TO
UNTIL
OLD
chasing
flies,etc., about
ENOUGH
the
meadows
AT
and
boiled
(boiled twenty minutes),
eggs
dipped in hot milk, the milk
fine and
seasoned
continued
variation
of the
to
egg.
for two
thick
Let
so.
as
should
5
be
be
the
opportunities
the egg
or
black
three
clabbered
it
for insects, which
with
milk,
omitted.
should
that
bread
stale wheat
out, and
pepper.
with
Dutch
or
be hard-
the egg
both
This
bled
crum-
feed
and
now
cheese
is
a
for
the
chicks
Dry meal
must
to
in
a
place
substitute
get
not
may
then
turkey has in its wild
young
open
and
weeks,
known
Berries, seeds,
first meal
squeezed
OVER;
LIBEKTY.
woods.
the variation.
The
JUMP
TO
MOTHEK
etc., make
be
TUKKBYS,
LITTLE
stantly
con-
state ;
insects,
be
given
56
TUKKEY
them,
swells
in their
to feed
way
cake.
old, omit
the
Clean
water
edge
or
to
morning
dew
so
jump-
to
wander
wheat
over
States
is
only
is necessary
the
enough.
Fig. 15,
the
chicks
may
be
after
the
feedings
have
a
in
good
the
they
educated
are
to
at
range
Western
plenty of grasshoijpers,no
after
day
a
feeding
Witli
can
two
move
boards, they
weaned,
sun
other
home
come
roost.
Barber
Mr
roomy
writes
and
two
coops,
Our
turkeys
one-half
feet
feet
high
rear
; we
keep the turkey hens, with
short
of
roaming
of
cent
his
lure.
After
"shingled"
are
then
after the
so
allowed
a
is- fastened
much,
being
are
or
a
long by
two
slope of six
their
brooding turkeys
P.
W.
hatch, fastens
ground,
tape
cooping
too
in the
turkeys,
front, with
lay and
sit in
feet
large
wide,
inches
to the
broods, in
a
to
them
lot,
grass."
Instead
from
in
"
:
two
on
from
mother,
on
cornep,
triangle,
are
time.
set
one
two,
time, three
they
territories, and
in
or
their
they
stubble, which
and
feeding
that
when
night
the
with
After
the
By the time
one.
over
about
is off.
and
morning
old
weeks
boards
for shelter
day
or
ground bone.
all
coop
best
bread
three
them
another
form
site of the
are
the
Every
The
corn
fourteen-inch
corner,
to
as
sufficient, and
are
to
one
birds
before
triangle, with
a
by night.
enough
allowed
be
three
are
of
scrajj^^ and
meat
must
form
the
young
give
over
dews
to the
old
are
and
best
boards
adjacent
is in
meal
the
If
certain.
is almost
the
milk
boards
by day and
meal
After
to form
shorter
of these
"
or
as
so
death
crops,
eggs
the
runs,
insufficiently swelled.
Indian
"Johnny
For
meal
wet
not
CULTUKE.
across
the
strips of cloth.
for
a
In
When
cord
tied
few
out
90
per
a
peg
to
to
days, the
walls and
pas-
hens
fences, and
"shingling,"or "boarding,
shingle, in which
shoulders
raises
a
are
fly over
cannot
or
with
cows
down
free range.
thin board
hen
manner
pegged
they
the
Lewis, who
prevent
of the
of the
holes
bird
proper
are
"
bored,
by soft cords,
shape
and
the
68
The
chicks
young
onion
cracked
night, after
they
Feed
milk
will
the
young
be
conquered.
on
Hindrances.
green
bones.
when
much
gravel. The
the
from
in
A
of
sea
bone
good
are
treated
the
by the
most
I
grow
that
used
ever
weak
are
easily digested food,
Too
rich
lack
of green
food,
too
often.
much
food,
require food
Give
but
will
oftener
cooked
food
cause
little chickens
and
clean
sea
shells
about
be
lar
dol-
a
hints
by the
Rhode
pursued
by the
of interest
:
Little
fowls
as
and
they
nutritive
too
is hard
and
concentrated.
to
trouble.
digest,or
Little
food
until
enough
head,
are
thrive
or
they
green
confined
under
grow
a
keys
tur-
Peed
lettuce, if they
that
grit, in
following
of
is
and
meat
little chickens.
onions
and
bowel
have
than
red
the
that
chapter
creatures, and
not
may
This
separate from
abundance
of
indispensable
cost
inquiry
tender
it must
develop the
about
fed
an
than
must
small
was
They
careful
and
meat
they have
foregoing, the
kept and
fast, require
very
is
Station, of the methods
if
milk
material.
turkey specialistsin that State, are
They
chicks
cutter
or
See
kept.
sour
the
in
crockery, oyster shells
to
Experiment
chickens.
ber
mill
eaten
both
finely chopped
of Connecticut.
turkeys do best
and
of
coast
addition
out
form
thing
In
Island
the
be
diarrhoea, but
be
best
barrel.
other
no
feather-forming
pounded
per
brought
and
will
and
poultry
form
the
lice
will
at
food
leave
give
c.
particular enemies
The
necessary.
are
weeks
e
given
not
as
feathering period, the
bonebest
supplied
Do
insects,
not
can-
tops,
be
may
much
so
two
get
These
the
of
first
can
turkeys
During
plenty
the
be
wheat
only
time
they
the
and
large enough.
get
each
freely. After
they
If
lions,
lettuce, dande-
give chopped
grass,
corn,
After
clean.
up
food.
green
(these last sparingly), turnip
tops
Buckwheat,
around.
have
must
plenty of
obtain
best
CCLTUEE,
TTJEKET
little
to
food, like chopped
to
a
pen.
Eemem-
confinement
that
EBABISTG
would
the
little
turkeys
of them.
work
Young
until
wet,
room
to
backs
they
drinking
18.
die
may
COOP
cold
on
FOK
BKOODING
clean
with
short
surfaces.
heavy
showers
feathers.
and
are
WHILE
a
a
THE
they
warm
in the
chill,and
a
days, and
If
in
put
ginger
to overcome
TURKEY,
fresh, dry
filth make
in
out
pepper
damp
or
be
on
If
turkeys.
to
chill, unless
red
aid them
water
food
covered
from
and
them
lice and
not
well
are
little
remove
their
should
dry. Black
great value
FIG.
them
69
CHICKS.
among
Dampness,
Give
turkeys
their
get
or
cooped,
are
frequently.
ground
death
and
disease
cause
TURKEY
THE
food
of
are
preventive
AT
AEE
CHICKS
LIBBRTY.
of
bowel
trouble
find that
hen
is
young
acre
both
old
dry, where
No
and
the
than
more
they
grass
three
are
is
turkeys.
young
turkeys do best when
confined, providing
high and
trees.
in
neither
put
short
litters
are
in
they
a
and
Some
the
nor
pasture lot,
there
cooped
in
are
a
no
five-
lot.
Ehode
Island
Northern
turkeys
com,
and
diarrhoea.
at
grown
Messrs
turkey
least
a
growers
year
ones,
Browning
as
careful
to
use
old, in feeding both
new
"
are
corn
Chappell,
is
an
apt
to
only
little
cause
illustration of
70
TUEKEX
flocks is given in
of whose
one
suggested in
this
is mixed
with
and
is
baked.
then
cracked
proportion
After
mixed
is
gradually
important
the
be
corn
cracked
always well
scalded, and
allowed
before
to swell
On
19.
SHELTERING
FOR
SHED
AT
TUEKEVS
quantity
of black
cracked
corn.
At
the
long,
but
it is detrimental
their
should
wet
be
long.
too
that
ing
confin-
their
being
found
was
prevents
20.
full
feeding,
are
young
weeks, they begin
SHELTERING
AT
is such
nature
of
exercise.
soon
puts
even
exercise, and
they
FOE
SHED
TUKKEYS
Their
while
the
night
at
the
light feeding,
If
it
have
great deal
and
on
'"
with
organs,
forage
or
If possible,
is short.
full
that
turkeys
Station
FIG.
a
crumbs
and
full liberty where
air and
bread
ued
contin-
they should
grass
small
grass,
Wfei'^re
not
that
a
diarrhoea.
the
to
or
lost in
and
entangled
find
turkeys
little
the
to the
is added
I^^land
Rhode
cold
days
stormy
pepper
have
will
oats
green
ing.
feed-
LITTLE
KIGHT.
They
en.
giv-
consider
very
that
the
is
corn
They
it
of
scalded
clear
cracked
FIG.
swell,
to
portion
a
until
as
the
crumbs, and
the
increased
bread
this
weeks,
with
bread,
com
given time
is
few
a
use
making
in
milk, and
sweet
com
is
Fig. 21,
chapter, but
meal
scalded
CTJLTUEE.
lost
birds
with
causes
or
do
have
to "throw
LITTLE
NIGHT.
that
they need
Eestriction
them
of
of
out
of
not
thrive.
done
well
the
red,"
at
as
liberty,
condition;
liberty,prevents
disease
cold
their
the
digestive
six
it
ing
tak-
is
or
eight
termed.
REAEING
viz
to
develop
and
neck,
chicks
be
:
head
"
sexes
will
crooked
have
the
over
with
erected
with
inflated
the
turkeys
young
critical
another
and
appetite
the
insectivorous,
be
and
open
for
a
short
In
fed
plenty
the
range
the
poults
of
best
range
of
grow
age
week
as
their
the
lose
now
have
the
is
weather
extra
adults,
as
their
Being
can
little
a
molt,
diet.
If
"
red,
require
meat
hardy,
stale
very
are
Barber,
Mr
on
blue-grass
they
from
as
care
they
young.
and
a
body
They
have
birds
become
writes
first
whole
birds
like.
the
on
which,
turkeys
such
too
they
or
chicken
The
young
then
birds,
the
their
larger
a
and
the
they
when
of egg,
the
weeks
time,
Kentucky,
for
and
fine, and
delicate
were
food
the
etc.,
male
days.
several
make
perch
to
"throwing
life.
ever
what-
tuft
with
of
time
their
bushes
shrubbery,
among
in
languish
stimulating
more
and
times
some-
fleshy appendage
the
through
pass
period
allowed
the
key
tur-
are
easily distinguished
the
At
they
horsehair-like
or
in
be
can
sisters.
and
on,
outspread,
pomp,
somber
billy
the
"thrown
have
be
Later
appearance
and
never
chaff, leaves,
upon
the
their
make
tail
more
and
will
they
not
breasts.
beak,
breast,
down
bedded
early, but
from
they
After
should
They
poults.
growth,
distinguished,
be
can
the
young,
birds.
vigorous
the
termed
when
checked
be
cause,
red,
Should
the
it is retarded
weakly,
or
month.
another
large and
hatched
late
If
turkey.
the
of
characteristic
so
about
formation
carunculous
red
the
71
OHIOKS.
TURKEY
THE
corn
bread
light bread
woodland,
rapidly
;
permitted
the
when
to
in
which
soaked
and
they
roost
should
young
in
there
milk.
plenty
are
in
be
of
six
trees.
is
With
insects,
to
eight
CHAPTEE
FATTEKIKG
After
have
MAEKETn^Q
first
of
October,
the
supply
of
gathered
This
until
four
weeks
boiled
before
and
twice
to
the
or
milk
and
week,
a
At
in
convenient
Three
of
the
flock
This
market.
necessary,
fatten
;
pens
do
confine
full
having
rapidly.
nearer
Give
a
day,
until
all
to
the
from
is not
which
the
the
those
which
liberty will
put
full
on
to
feed
charcoal
water
pure
that
be
to
they
of
extra
food,
in
but
and
small
liberty
Turkeys
over.
wander
be
yet
killed.
keep
will
not
for
not
are
requires
food
not
is
over
fattened
wish
the
flock
be
to
much
it
kept
waste
a
birds
will
from
whole
the
devour
turkeys
or
Thanksgiving
be
the
flock
you
feed
once
because
only
of
the
ones
soon
nature
three
with
pepper
Keep
for
to
not
are
dition
con-
be
separate
are
Feeding
food
to
growing
pulverized
late-hatched
confine
not
which
market.
Fattening
being
remain
the
or
remember,
rather
after
for
those
rations
etc., mixed
Thanksgiving,
is
fattening
injury
But
all
they
drink.
for
separation
stock,
works
vessels
which
breakfast,
grain.
design
breeding
of
whole
give
you
to
rations
night
have
should
black
add
week
a
good
For
with
frosts
extra
which
that
desirable
large enough
in
apples,
seasoned
before
weeks
them
sweet
twice
food.
issuing
Thanksgiving.
meal,
food
other
begins,
carrots,
corn
and
keep
to
if
especially
begin
fattening
potatoes,
bran
rest
the
is
FEATHERS.
"
insects
themselves,
turkeys.
your
or
AND
the
lessened
X.
take
on
much,
so
content
more
fat
as
to
home.
fattening
the
twenty-four
time
hours
turkeys
when
you
before
72
all
they
can
eat
commence
slaughtering
four
full
time.
times
feeding
The
;
and
meal,
corn
Always
much
trouble
soon
as
no
and
food
keep
much
in
the
and
August.
and
one
$2.25 each.
to
Near
they
be
clean, but
charcoal
good
leave
ally,
occasion-
they
health,
help
can
the
in
best
Island, turkeys
FANCY
are
in November
are
kept
PROFITS.
places like
pounds
a
Newport,
for such
birds
they
in
weigh
each, and bring from
generally sold
are
make
probably
can
resorts
summer
near
sold when
can
be
control
shipped
and
by
the
ket
mar-
and
July
from
$1.75
price
trade, because
this
long distances.
that
tender
ice, they become
on
just before
last
up
as
or
by the pound.
lean
placed
first meal
feeding will put turkeys
demand
a
to four
cannot
so
are
At
may
by raisers
at this age
eat
located
are
is
They
of
pair, instead
If
They
one-half
the
causes
com
they will eat, but
wealthy congregate,
resorts, there
similar
wheat.
buck-
October, but
FOR
turkey broilers.
for
or
buildings.
who
raisers
Turkey
wheat
the
In Rhode
corn
BROILERS
TURKEY
where
old
and
barns
from
in
and
September
they get all the whole
away
and
for market.
possible condition
water,
gravel where
days of such
growing
been
or
new
Give
pounded
the
supply of
a
Twenty
have
fed
old;
they will
all
Feed
by them.
themselves.
not
year
them.
kill
time
each
and
that
with
a
corn
may
varied
potatoes
milk
with
possible after daylight, and
Feed
dark.
corn,
use
be of cooked
scalded
meal
corn
whole
last of
the
and
of
or
73
EBATHEB8.
"
should
daily meals
of the
first three
MARKETING
AND
PATTERING
they do
discolored
If
dressed,
keep well.
not
in
turkeys
a
very
short
time.
Where
brought
will
be
to
wise
all of them,
after
they
maturity
to
seek
where
become
turkeys
young
more
without
such'a
disease
larger.
are
raised
than
overstocking the
market
is almost
for the
sure
can
place, it
surplus, or
to kill
be
them
for
off
TUKKEY
their
A
make
or
so
the
approached
21.
to
catch
A
FROM
of
OP
them.
is
This
wild
by
plan is
to
shut
them
time
in
Old
the
hands
proper
in.
order
to
or
Repeated
and
CHAPPELJj'S
a
do
just within
has
business
to
barn
fre-
FLOCK,
or
shoot
to
stock
have
usual
carriage shed
are
fed
tains
con-
learned
The
pursue.
this they
the
been
if the
case
the
course
into
of
"
may
surrounded
wildness,
their
the
at
birds
front
be
season.
them
be
to
get the
In
flock
a
ISLAND.
secure
apt
more
blood.
experience
to
way
the
BROWNING
RHODE
only
cannot
increases
PHOTOGRAPH
quently the
they
them.
market
catch
to
remainder
them
and
attempt
that
suspicious
difficulty in securing
kill
to
FALL.
THE
much
desire
they
unsuccessful
and
them
attempts
PIG.
especially, have
turkeys when
bungling
IN
TURKEYS
CATCHING
Beginners,
CULTUEB.
for
place in which
a
and
long
they
76
TUEKEY
CULTtJEE.
make
turkey
prices, bear
own
your
twelve
at
cents
dressed,
cents
dressing. If
alive for
less than
you
eight
cents
previous
the
the
birds
more
or
of
less
the
in
woody
a
the
follow
and
blood
you
sell
if
two
loop
body hang
After
pound,
a
is worth
about
for twelve
hours
the
stout
with
neck
cords
in
over
each
foot
of
a
convenient
Kill
before
feathers
clean.
the
stand
under-
you
blood
will
bad
a
the
appearance,
stun
back,
Practice
soon
them
by
it causes
If
stock.
kill
them
by
possible.
as
a
joist or horizontal
lower
end
turkej',and
bight for
will
as
sale of the
the
;
not
picked, the
from
body gets cold
ing
by bleed-
unless
pull
out
perfect
of each.
have
the
ing.
pick, stand-
to
you
killing,hang the body quickly, and
feathers
hours,
do
removed,
the
time
only
on
hang
loop
twelve
Xever
long
as
them
will
bird
heads
hours,
twelve
they
injures the
the
dressed
length of
done,
being
a
at
mouth
pounding
the
to
clean, but
pick
the
sufficient
have
stock.
unsalable.
or
is
beyond
the
the
when
with
birds
pole overhead,
a
them
sell
cents
The
properly
not
head
beheading, leavnig
Place
get
flesh,giving
in
food
poultry in
settle, and
to
the
in
you
to
than
more
shrink
of
it almost
the
on
Have
or
for
feather, giving
rendering
the
to
appearance.
out," and
every
knocking
necessary
neck, and
or
stick
"bleed
time
appearance
it, because,
half
where
drink
and
length of
without
mouth
to
attempt
is
pine,
to
confined
affect
will
food
If starved
begin
are
of
which
crop,
keep well.
turkey
they
birds
killing. This
to
the
empty
dressing, which
labor
head.
per
Deprive
of
cost
teen
six-
as
of
cost
one-half
and
Live
same
afford
cannot
you
thirteen
deduct
the
turkeys
your
dressed,
cents
nearly the
is
reckoning
not
market
you
eighteen
unless
pound
a
in mind.
proportion
this
If you
dressing.
in
one-third
about
shrinks
Poultry
PICKING.
AND
KILLING
the
remove
tail and
you
in
wing
this, so
FATTBKING
that
will
you
For
on
the
and
all done,
have
is yet heat
there
while
MABKETING
AND
Boston
entrails
shipments, but
for
this
For
the
turkeys should
no
at
never,
in those
scalded
markets
time
any
stock
AND
packing turkeys,
large ones,
also the
small
22.
TDKKEYS
FIG.
themselves, and
During
weighing
command
mark
usually filled with
figures; but
as
are
uniform
number
of
much
giving best sizes used
than
turkeys in the package.
fancy turkeys,
pounds
each, generally
The
year.
the
stock, which
market.
irregular ones.
for turkeys
and
well
the
of
dressed,
case,
warm,
ages
pack-
your
sions
regular dimen-
We
subjoin
chickens,
style of packing generally preferred by
at low
goes
Make
boxes
is then
market
is sometimes
possible. Nice
better
MARKET.
turkeys, fat and
as
by
large
week,
"fair to poor"
bulls, each
old
any
FOK
prices of the
demoralizes
as
and
fifteen
to
bring good prices,unless,
rainy weather
fully as
sell
carefully,putting the
PACKED
ten-pound
even
them
ones
the
twelve
the best
drawn
SHIPPING.
assort
Thanksgiving
from
keys
tur-
dry picked.
as
PACKING
In
be
season,
sometimes
will
gizzard.
or
Chicago markets,
at any
or
scalded
be
ever
liver, heart
remove
head
to leave
giving
regular Thanks-
to the
up
York, Philadelphia and
New
headed, and
well
fully as well
turkeys
Never
market.
should
or
it is
all
all,
and
drawn
intestines
body.
in the
market
in, on
the
77
EEATHEKS.
"
our
and
a
cut
ing
show-
customers.
78
TUEKEX
shippers who
Western
adopt these
shippers who
to fall
apart
on
and
returns
cold
During
in
the
week,
either
the
best
by
closely that
the
and
cover,
distinctly mark
Also
he
the
merchant's
known
is
and
weight
of
have
to
be
and
if frozen, it is often
a
removed
little points
best
and
sale, especially
usually the
and
work
case
in
should
if
the
the
be
to
not
On
is
poultry
closely observed
at the
count
in
the
contents
"
:
Stencils
are
When
the
contents
do
this
in
season.
a
causes
prevent
hurry,
All
as
is
these
by turkey raisers
selling turkeys
least expense.
without
frozen, it
will sometimes
customer
busy
use
weight of the poultry,
if
delay, which
so
shipper, unless
desired.
impossible
shippers, for they all
advantage and
the
pack
plain figures,thus
of the
when
pieces, and
to
'Boxes
paper.
his stencil.
of
ascertain
to
tearing the package
the
that
be
never
package is omitted, the entire
tare
extra
but
quality of
in
tare
and
number
and
day
any
and
paper
move,
kind
name
correct
much
with
poultry in
free for this purpose,
furnished
ped
ship-
being packed.
cannot
correct
by the
of
should
It
freight.
them
the
shipped
be
can
or
dressed
wrap
never
gross
Line
contents
straw,
the
poultry
exjjress
packages.
boxes
sales, prompt
quick
frozen, before
not
cided
de-
a
because, when
"
insures
old
use
siderable
con-
prices for quality of stock.
market
weather,
entirely cold, but
are
it
suggested,
highest
arrival
if at
even
give them
it will
as
expense,
other
above
as
style of packing,
over
advantage
sizes,ready
and
better
large quantities had
send
packages and
trouble
all
CULTUEE.
to the
AKD
lAHEHIKG
TIME
BEST
The
It is
the
Yet
centers.
best
Son
"
this
the
each
for
and
chicken
market
small
this
is, at this time,
advised
each.
Southern
a
few
to
few
days,
the
on
figures. Shipments
at
twenty
turkeys, and
as
at
it
is quite
shipments.
Stock,
headed,
and
the
bulk
The
shipments
the
from
and
middle
and
for the
for
cents
this
our
this State has shown
a
is
points
are
the
Indiana,
opens
oversupply
to
low
very
Hampshire,
last few
should
shippers
dependent,
an
large nine-
season,
market, and
but
held
years
ten-pound
or
be drawn
not
the raiser
few
a
with
generally
New
they need
time
for
October,
Vermont
eral
gen-
September.
from
demand,
in
as
eight pounds
are
pound,
per
early part of November,
to
of
the
arrived, and
the market
market,
Western
but
is overstocked
profitableto
at
called)
market
supply and
this
season
demand
early part of October, have
quite steady
ments
ship-
offered
are
dressing under
from
our
limited
the
cents
forcing the
sometimes
the
very
Ohio,
twenty-five
say
August;
as
until
none
Illinois and
been
earlier
resorts,
shipments have
send
it has
turkeys, "so
majority of early shipments
at twenty
in
a
to
The
a
broil, but
to
grade after
are
supplied
is not
turkeys
shore
broil, as early
to
above
received
were
but
can
we
turkey
port
lots, in the vicinity of New-
celebrated
other
turkeys
There
Some
September.
in
opens
present
H.
to the
make
to
turkeys ( "chicken
small
young,
at
W.
:
Thanksgiving,
shippers
will
in the
largestconcerns
to
time
market.
any
;n
market
right
shipments of turkeys
until
year,
the
shipping, write
producers and
of
Southern
and
business, in addition
previous
market
aim
of the
one
past few
years
prices
packing and
for
directions
on
Co.,
commission
poultry
In
turkeys is Boston, but
sold at
goods
Lest
ihe
always command
and
SELL.
particular tlian Western
more
Rudd,
TO
for dressed
greatest market
W
BBAIHESS.
MARKETING"
make
to
be
ice
or
early
packed,
packed in barrels.
Kentucky
commences
quality of
stock
great improvement
in the
from
past three
80
TURKEY
Stock
years.
dry
from
in boxes
have
we
there
but
few
by
or
all lots will
think
Boston,
and
not, to draw
regular Thanksgiving
It
for all cities and
large
23.
OPEK
CKATK
FOE
liave not
come
as
to that
up
or
is
the
time
drawn
not
it
before
turkeys
any
in Is'ew
towns
posed of five days previous
years
some
we
headed.
time, is the distributing point
shipments first arrive here,
FIG.
head
bring fully as much
Thanksgiving
at
that
i^acked
question whether
is
shipments,
for
and
express,
lots at this time
through in good condition.
necessary
and
generally headed
is
shipped
and
seen
CULTURE.
and
the
to that
BHIPPIXG
; the
England
of
number
time
bulK
turkeys dis
is enormous,
DKESSED
of
TIJEKEYS
some
COOL
IX
WEATHEll.
of
to
the
large commission
"12,000 -worth
the
for this trade
should
later than
have
two
Saturday
found
it
parts of Vermont
and
the
raisers
Monday
or
Monday
is
Xew
previous,
to get
a
arrange
ed
intend-
to arrive
here
and
shippers
their
some
stock
hcii;
not
one
or
special poultry train tlirough
Hamiishire,
Saturday afternoon
should
selling $10,000
Shipments
always be timed
There
and
sometimes
previous.
advantageous
days earlier.
shipments
houses
previous
to
turkeys here for Thanksgiving,
which
get
as
all
they
are
to
lands
their
Tlianksgiving,
their
large-sized
wanted
at
that
AND
FATXEmSG
time
as
sizes
command
large
be
can
from
New
eighteen
to
has
time, and
the
exceptionally fine
received
At
Christmas
medium
size
stock
2
New
the
thing
every-
rushed
in at
February
in
cease
there
spring and
placed through
regular shipments
from
the
by the last of February, and
cold
below
being depended
begins
to move
on
months, of fresh-killed
and
toms, but such
and
old
cocks, and
There
are
at
any
stock
West
stock
stock
of
storage for
good
the
unusually
any
of cold
age
stor-
February, and
cents.
generally cleaned
are
The
up
arriving after this date
regards quality ; that
as
trade
and
until the
October.
new
crop
There
are,
through the spring and
mer
sum-
ice-packed turkeys, old
hens
is about
the range
and
the
at this time
to thirteen
eleven
again, in September
per
cold
January
for best
regular shipments
cents
place in
storage stock,
stored
of course,
for
time, but the general bulk
usually at pricesranging from
is much
prices
cents
on
large turkeys,
trade, take advantage of
summer
is
to
for
for, the
fourteen
to
buying
prices at this
stock
demand
some
called
are
twelve
quality. Dealers
is
ten
land
Eng-
Thanksgiving,
shipments
until
stock, the
No.
generally having been
then
sizes
from
ranging
market
fine Western
after
treme,
ex-
Fourteen
stock.
cents, with
here
being
early part of March, the supply is dependent
States.
eleven
for
price from
in
quotation
latter
as
large fancy
past extra
few lots of turkeys from
from
Western
low
large stock
as
points has ranged
to sixteen
But
suitable
for
years
for the
sellers,but
demand
cents, the
twelve
are
a-
smaller
season
Christmas, stock weighing
hard
are
fair average
a
under.
or
of
but
some
England
been
States
or
for
only for
being
range
that
is
twenty
and
cents
there
produced, and
stock
cents
pounds each
trade
Thanksgiving
After
premium.
a
81
FBATHEBS.
"
later in the
possible,while
as
twelve
over
MAKKETIifG
in
the
same
quality
price is wide, from
as
fowl
eight to
pound.
not
season
enough turkeys'
of the year
eggs
arriving
to establish
on
this
quotations.
83
TURKEY
Late
in
the
North, mixed
few
a
season
in
CULTURE.
hens'
with
There
is
The
profit in saving and
some
feathers, but
this
sell
the
at
has
to considerable
grown
is
the
manufacture
feathers. These, to
dusters,which
reach
of very
feathers
the
freed
are
quill split
that
finished
into
feathers
are
choice
dress
a
used
feathers
At
stays.
in the
demand
for
feathers
from
by
a
to
as
market
which
A
feathers
the
favorable
fall
Then
prices
and
there
at
all
and
of the
wing
of certain
of
for
that
are
for
very
use
ble
fashiona-
a
she
trade
those
much
is
ostrich
of
class
use
there
years,
perfect by
no
into
with
used
for
they must, however,
them
in the
soft and
raw
state
be
fluffy,and
are
usually
profit in the handling of them.
time
during
is
feather
entering
certain
;
makes
prevent much
most
late in the
months.
Africa.
of
bound
use
belief
made
for mattresses
prices paid for
The
the
body feathers
process
the
turkey feathers
in
the
much
so
in certain
only body feathers, having
quills. Choice
low
white
headdress
South
cheap pillows and
the
and
of
turkey tail
few
Another
content
rests
Parisian
a
treated
A
tail
feather
out
of
featherbone,
making
seasons
who
wearing
stiff
duster.
millinery trade, decking the bonnet
woman,
handles
put them
'
years
turkey
grouped, and
way.
certain
considerable
a
in this
is in
from
backbone'
are
serviceable
very
to
as
' '
the
These
elastic,yet strong.
last few
imperfections, and
from
away
the
in
Carefully selected
people.
many
industry which
dusters
expensive
so
are
other
any
extent, replace ostrich
certain
a
than
An
proportions
feather
of
circumstances.
more
uses.
turkey
marketing
upon
worth
are
various
to
put
are
largely
depends
choicest tail feathers
kind, and
so
and
West
TEATHEKS.
TURKEY
is
which
and
eggs,
the
price.
same
is
from
received
are
a
to
market
tlie winter
larger demand,
leading cities,while
turkey feathers
and
and
is
early spring
established
during the
sum-
si
the
in
quotations
other
and
differences
markets
leading
considered.
shipping
points
the
railroad
any
single
tail,
be
can
clear,
and
skirt
Turkey
tail,
Turkey
wing,
fiom
Turkey
wing,
tail
Turkey
wing
and
tail,
Turkey
wing
and
jiointers,
with
mixed
for
less
weighing
package
per
of
Turkey
pointers
Turkey
body,
and
two
pointers,
clear,
freight
interior
from
that
that.
than
and
15
pound,
.
,
and
12
.
and
choice,
25
cents
.
18
cents
12
cents
.
Sand
6
10
5
and
12
cents
and
15
cents
and
Sand
dry
for
pounds
hundred
feathers,
joints
St.
at
remembering
one
.
first
sents
repre-
price
same,
freight
learned,
readily
charges
company
choice
rate
the
much
is
The
the
and
Chicago,
age
cart-
table
subjoined
The
charges.
freight,
deducting
after
feathers
commission
recent
Louis
the
of
value
net
and
Turkey
CULTURE.
TUBKET
2
and
Scents
4
cents
3
cents
XI.
CHAPTER
SHELTER
As
mentioned
needed.
in
the
and
parent
that
rails
the
ground,
In
trees.
not
begin
near
the
the
house
is
from
draughts
hens,
would
adult
can
but
be
in
in
but
it is the
At
roost
after
as
they
Those
more
feels
this
of
high,
the
did
that
they
chose, but
full
thrifty.
During
turkeys
out
of
that
condition
and
be
kept
in
house
with
common
The
healthy
cold, rain
or
snow,
the
nature
windbreak
is
highly
it.
A
the
dry place
for
thing
built
as
old
seemed
liberty and
the
winter
in
the
in
be
slat
the
and
of
sirable,
de-
unless
turkey
house
it
house.
was
allowed
were
door
was
morning
affected
outdoor
colds, with
85
roost
turkeys
the
which
The
to
to
open.
turkeys
leave
too
with
Observe
might
had
roost
tame.
tight
of
thrive.
roosted
always
turkeys.
of
need
like
young
not
housing
will
Station, although
th"y
allowed
old
for
limbs
large
is used
as
from
a
and
Island
feet
kept
are
fence
air, and
is not
barn
a
be
A
amount
respect.
house
therein
dark,
he
Rhode
airy and
was
to
a
size
the
pure
when
turkeys
such
any
cold,
the
turkeys
confining
too
Large
the
may
siderations.
con-
doors,
twelve
or
to
cold.
too
almost
have
stay
in
ventilator,
a
stand
must
wild
than
of
them.
ten
they
that
danger
more
both
birds" should
The
that
constitution,
out
latitudes
falls.
barn,
or
houses,
warm
northern
snow
is not
all-important
get
things
best
next
more
until
There
to
the
are
turkeys
perch
not
uprights,
on
the
are
they
etc, do
horizontally
set
if
roosts,
foxes,
of
strength
stock,
young
High
necessary,
and
vigor
of
housing
much
before,
Health,
MARKING.
"
Young
swelled
early
unfavorably.
roosts
the
as
open
much
were
with
same
and
old
the
were
faces, T"hil9
86
CULTUEE.
TUKKET
in the
those
was
in
to roost
improved
The
shed
healthy.
midwinter,
during
roosting in the building
weather, those
had
bright and
in
great that
so
compelled
seemed
trees
and
the
trees, and
of
many
them
Satisfactory results
if the roosts
barn, with
sides.
quarter-inch cracks
The
for young
so
turkeys
in
one
summer
first be
to
leached
on
you
to
the
coal
wood
ashes
garden
mix
soil.
with
the
dreadful
odor
Turkey
boisterous
Northern
to nine
are
two
move
them
place
where
weather.
from
or
described
or
into
cold
1000
can
be
turkey
the
to
they
more
value
case,
allow
The
manure.
alkali
of
and
sides
be-
manure,
lose much
young
of the
have, in
storm, lasting from
to the
rain, than
When
of
the
young
who
the
the
three
they
will
ax
farmer's
wife
turkeys, she
barn, woodshed,
kept dry, until
grower
we
turkey chicks, unless
more
in
turkeys in stormy
always in May
rain
broods
coops
used
not, unless
any
housing
exposure
dry
late
manure.
Almost
three
they
should
in
be
may
on
good light,
dry loam
ashes
of
them
set
is
ISTever,in
Thanksgiving.
next
returns, but the
500
for
are
States, a
guarded
but
all
on
SHEDS.
days, that will kill
kill at the
has
sheds
there
arises, you
TUBKEY
the
hay
indispensable.
of
ammonia
which
is
prove
poultry
fertilizingproperties of the
or
in winter
as
long,
fill it with
then, they will
liberates
ashes
feet
house, where
Sifted
but
; even
your
ashes
wood
the
the loam,
five
or
and
square,
early fall.
or
with
mix
a
four
of your
corner
to form
as
crowded.
over-
boards
the
confined, a dust bath
are
boards, each
two
edge
not
turkeys, the better.
When
Take
ever.
old, empty
an
between
as
were
housing turkeys have, except
less
days they
obtained
of
center
and
out
well
as
they
be
may
placed in the
are
few
were
and
kept perfectly clean
was
shut
a
trast
con-
coldest
the
were
in
The
can
or
any
pleasant weather
intends
to
grow
turkeys will find turkey sheds necessary.
200
to
Prop-
SHELTER"
and
erly constructed
entire
in
cost
Build
Let
the
with
them
rear.
the
roof
one-half
feet
It
a
can
covered
little
they
of
Standard
six
in the back
the
and
boards
the
On
floor.
the
and
can
twenty-flve
young
shelter
sufficient size
give
pleasant
erty
give all lib-
In
sand.
the
Keep
paper.
doors
at
battened, and
part of the shed, and
of the
rake
roof
eight inches
or
rainy days keep the broods
on
feet,
ten
Have
roofing
is off, open
of
grown
feet.
feet high, and
rear.
rough
feet long, you
and
more
shut
shed
a
in.
like
hundred
one
to
turkej's easily, until
and
be
to
age
out
all
at
in all weathers.
times
Sheds
be
may
for
sheltering broods
made,
two
feet
and
wider.
at
shown
as
feet long, three
as
one-half
in the
high
made
often
twenty
are
and
be
dew
coops
hundred
one
bottom, roof
front, and
in coops
their
or
the
little in
night, but
the
say
at
turkeys the freedom
until
this,
length, twenty
seven
with
days, after the
Move
feet
ton
save
seasons.
convenient
front
hens
mother
the
be
project
the
two
or
receding
and
boards
judiciouslyused, they will
any
width
a
four
one
87
MAEKING.
feet
Slats
there
is
less
Figs.
in
best
for
of
danger
feet
they
course
are
and
19
wide, three
Of
rear.
of little
turkeys
These
20.
high
in
be
may
to
six
are
front, and
made
front, if sheds
injury
night
at
turkeys
higher
are
large,
by
flying
against them.
MARKING
TURKEYS
POR
SAMUEL
As
but
fence,
when
farms.
or
In
flocks
pretty well
roost
a
If enclosed
kept
given
different
may
CDSHMAN.
previously stated, turkeys do
free range.
wire
IDENTIFICATION.
on
liberty they
neighborhood
are
mixed.
liable
If
together, and
to
not
roam
where
meet,
one
can
roam
woven
controlled,
over
adjoining
them, the
together
run
lowed
al-
be
keep
many
separated
as
unless
large park by
a
island, they
an
full
in
thrive
not
and
get
immediately, thej-
flock
the rest
of the
88
TURKEY
Tronl
FIG.
2i
SUGGESTIONS
FOK
CULTURE.
Toe Marks
MARKING
TPEKEYS
BT
THEIR
FEET.
SHELTEB
first night
The
season.
if
turkeys of
to have
gobbler of
flock takes
Red
by
use
hardy,
and
grading
up
a
This
but
of
or
colored
similar
dressed
and
one
hen
favorite
from
year
birds, or they
you
get
you
is desirable, for
In
many
every
farm,
This
a
hatched.
At
this
age
operation, and
there
has
mark,
different
at the
sheep
toes
dead
on
or
town
cattle.
each
of
as
is little
in
off
soon
as
they take
and
a
or
have
A
toes
is
their
a
private
one
or
the
same
three
of their
moi'e
notice
as
front
the
and
altogether, many
are
of the
Each
these
on
is followed.
little turkeys
little
towns
flock
a
feet
bleeding.
no
some
turkey has
foot, or eight
If you
there
very
clerk's office,the
As
lost among
alive.
or
marking
by clipping
nails, or tips of their toes,
a
captured by thieves,
them.
to
of
reasons.
system
is done
ble
desira-
that
or
be
one,
other, the
each
may
turkey-raising sections, where
nearly
a
be
may
tell them,
can
excellent
an
another,
turkeys
clue
a
males
of
use
for it is often
of
that
The
larger.
flock from
a
gobbler. Your
before
private mark
brand
fiock is
a
distinguish the birds of
raised
stock
identifying
more
profitablequalities.
its
sufficient for all purposes,
is not
to
much
are
also improves
of
much
are
by the repeated
stock
common
means
breeds
pure
such
cause
gained, be-
is
advantage
combinations
some
breed
pure
between
crosses
ual
individ-
principally for
valued
are
additional
An
growers.
first
of
varieties
Golden
or
by, the
near
each
and
a
White, Buff, Slate and
The
readily distinguished.
is
from
seasons
kept
those
of
of those
any
several
of its own,
characteristics
on
from
color
from
different
breed
a
raisers try
birds, many
By breeding for
neighbors.
gether
to-
run
difficult.
ov^n
different
a
day they
each
more
readily distinguish their
To
their
separation
their
makes
other
the
from
comparativelyeasy
is
this
to, but
attended
immediately
do
To
home.
driven
flocks and
separated
up,
home
its
to
return
flock fails to
a
looked
be
roost, it should
89
MARKING.
"
are
raiser
tered
regis-
brands
one
of
back
different
90
TUEKEY
brands
be
maj'
illustration
different
doubled
almost
rarely
in
remove
Should
be
changed
without
showing
of
turkeys
may
they
it
is
time
Other
the
skin
in
you
your
some
web
or
may
case,
time
the
feel
of
flesh
where
that
such
probably
be
very
if
glad
and
be
cannot
The
marks
detection,
them
before
heal
to
the
clip,
you
vided
pro-
ficult
dif-
more
marks.
be
maj'
wing,
or
it
a
you
that
can
foot
the
to
beak
the
marks
without
toes
addition
The
necessary.
nails,
stolen
mutilation.
allow
more
your
in
fresh
to
The
marks,
be
will
two
be
the
changed
passes
change
to
it
to
one
marked
as
the
be
examined.
are
thus
identified,
they
sufficient
but
made,
be
may-
tions
combina-
toes,
than
By
toes.
number
more
more
turkeys
dressed,
little
the
one
section.
mature
may
front
toe,
be
may
turkey-growing
a
back
only
clipping
two
clipping
number
to
but
left
or
By
without
necessary
even
right
trebled.
or
by
clipping
The
toes.
them.
made
be
by
the
of
some
may
more
either
clipping
shows
88
different
the
clipping
marks
Nine
toe.
by
Page
on
Six
front
made
CULTURE.
you
of
loop
a
not
this
have
are
be
is
colored
practice,
done
so.
in
silk
tened
fas-
Although
seen.
not
times
some-
punched
holes
filed,
precaution
follow
marks,
in
necessary
you
will
at
92
TUKKBT
Is easier to
has
been
treated
chapter
in the
keep them
nest
for lice.
buried
You
flesh.
lice, which
gray
you
know
that
the
minutest
breathe
as
hen
breathed
we
of
through
anything
which
The
oil to the
head
to the
blower, which
the
mother
on
lice
scald
in
them, replacing
soon
make
short
Give
them
full
space
of
dry
sand
work
pores
If
manner.
same
"
skin
in our
know
must
you
to do
that
stead
inthat
cation.
suffo-
quickly, produces
at
oil and
are
Neither
produces
Having
by
applied
a
drug
same
Never
way.
wander
can
If
the
with
a
them.
on
at all times
dry,
fresh
Peed
warm
;
burn
clean
days, and
convenient,
have
keep
the
oughly
cooped, thor-
supply.
on
phur
sul-
tion.
opera-
and
and
are
boiling suds
it with
of
broods
about
use
same
fully feathered
are
dust
flock, and
your
the
little
a
Also
store.
through
go
of
means
Carefully watch
again,
liberty
some
body
night the
coops
find
the
poults
their
Examine,
wings, throroughly apply Pyrethrum
at
red," they
with
skin, the
creatures.
obtained
themselves.
away
the
powder).
be
lice
the
the
"thrown
the
head
the
turkeys.
young
When
of
rest
turkey
detect
if you
and
can
their
things known
lung-breathing
to
in
pores
insect
like
half
ones
largest dragon fly to
"
two
in
droop,
to
lungs like animals, but
no
pores
closes those
may
your
the head
the
you
cautions,
pre-
or
kerosene.
nostrils,- then
(Persian
harm
the
through
our
best
Pyrethrum
the
countless
rub
treated
louse, have
of them
examine
and
There
be
all
large brown
with
wings.
must
birds
or
poult.
spite of
in
at once
them
all insects, from
through
though
any
the
mother
newly hatched
four
or
mixed
the
on
in. the
turkey begins
young
Remove
lard
of
also, the ends
large
may
three
find
oil, or fresh
sweet
they
depressed,
acts
may
in the
the
If the
great.
eat, and
to
on
turkey
or
advised
as
be
quickly rid the
must
losses will be
lice will
no
and
come,"
you
"
powder,
insect
begin work
to
But if they do
refuses
with
sitting hen
If the
away.
Incubation,
on
CTJLTUEB.
ter
the litFilth
will
surfaces.
keep
for grit and
a
dust.
AND
HINDRANCES
the
Although
to a lack
due
from
no
of
but
but
the
make
may
are
strongest and
Island
Rhode
finest
which
affect man,
by nearly the
by
from
prevented
"
they would
might
cause
the
sweep
.
from
When
the
disease
the
germs
cleansed
has
with
in
come
clothing
a
premises.
with
weeds
every
Germs
of
disease
soil to
in.
grow
greater rapidity
grown
growth, the
in
more
in
sand
some
and
the
well.
with,
are
kills
germs.
If
same
rich
rapidly they
loam,
tion,
infec-
to
vacated
not
the
stroyed,
de-
after, if given
faster
soils,and,
is
rooms,
and, if
up,
this
destroyed.
are
be liable
long time
grow
the
"
doors
dry
that
tendants,
at-
disinfected,
patient had
a
They
with
article
every
may
active
also
patient, the
the
would
room,
patienjts
are
using the
one
started,
them
contact
within
long time after the
again become
suitable
that
germs
articles in the
or
even
done,
not
for
lated,
iso"
such
care
sons
per-
others,
well
once
are
course,
contact
solution
some
properly done, all of the
If this were
its
run
gated
propa-
well, and
with
only
direct
occupied, and
rooms
have
may
in
coming
who
are
eral
gen-
If infected
contact
Not
country.
kept in quarantine, but those
prevented
in
diseases
becoming
the
epidemic, which,
an
come
over-
Cholera,
serious
patient.
coming
to
:
diseases
separated from
immediately
tible,
suscep-
as
says
from
These
the
more
other
many
means.
given off by
germs
not
are
same
exercise
' '
Station
prevented
all
are
lent
viru-
specimens.
Experiment
fever, diphtheria, and
scarlet
of
powerful
so
the
most
lack
individuals
tures,
crea-
even
to the
exposed
is
there
"
which
underfeeding,
infections
certain
even
if
escape,
ing
breed-
living
other
as
destroyed by diseases
influences
various
well
as
stock,
be
may
of
result
closely related
or
turkeys,
not
may
the
"
Overfeeding,
form.
The
that
raising turkeys
in
hardiness,
or
inferior
vigorous
and
vigor
liable to be
are
most
greatest trouble
young,
question
DISEASES.
OF
PREVENTION
93
DISEASES.
as
and
in
the
spread, the
the
multiply
case
ol
ranker
the
greater
the
94:
CDKXUBE.
lUBKEY
.^M_^^:M^
M"'.. I
vl":*'
FIG.
This
25.
illustration
this
made
book.
NO
MOEE
shows
The
fence
FEOM
TEOUBLE
Mr.
solely by the Page
turkey
Dawley's
Illustrated
Woven
STRATTNG
above
Wire
is
Peuce
TUBKETS.
park, described
a
on
Page 112 of
affair
cheap but very durable
Co., of Adrian, Mich.
AND
HINDRANCES
greater their power.
number
of germs
thrown
Living
surfaces
having healtliy secretions
for germs,
while
thrive.
Filth
Healthy
organs
and
the
secretions
and
nourisli
be
may
soils
poor
enable
destroy
may
but
germs,
are
may
decaying matter
resist
disease
of
ofE and
abnormal
95
DISEASES.
them
certain
germs.
certain
a
by
overcome
to
tity
quanmuch
a
greater number.
"Purchasing
bring all
may
infecting
hard
birds
at the
examined
lice before
quarantine is
the
trouble.
Keep
as
dozen
on
completely
as
Entrails
long and
Do
well
feed milk
not
should
cause
Persons
that
would
the
they
of their
them
might result in blood
post-mortem
afterwards
carbolic
discovered
acid.
in
By such
before
receive
it
solution
cut
All
as
of
examinations
becomes
that
fal.
of-
should
of
be
having
dies
tion.
examina-
very
make
instruments
the
sure
This
that
matter
as
to
from
abraded.
or
well
of
living thing.
should
infectious
should,
a
them
uncooked
post-mortem
is not
poisoning.
examinations
cleansed
to
a
parasites and
any
examination
hands
to
from
Every fowl which
such
liable
with
having consumption
persons
are.
bors,
neighinfect
suspected
are
subjected
making
skin
make
allow
be
that
to
serious
a
fowls, therefore
being fed
cows
not
where
expectorate
affect
before
from
Do
liable to contain
are
will
cooked
tuberculosis.
any
that
feed
not
cious,
suspi-
are
run
stock
own
days'
showing
may
to
for
few
of your
turkey
or
possible. Do
as
that
those
flocks,if allowed
of animals
of disease
germs
from
your
A
is
oughly
thor-
treated
introduce
may
fowl
Isolate
ground.
common
others
different
more
all
it
be
buy birds
Avoid
flocks away
your
and
others.
not
disease
single infected
a
or
of
case
that
should
kind
Do
of disease.
mild
a
bird
with
run
flock,
a
up
extent
an
of any
to
making
parasites together, thus
new
desirable.
very
slightest trace
for
Each
allowed
in
to such
for disease
being
there
and
start
get rid of them.
to
and
of diseases
sorts
place
a
here
used
in
hands, be
antiseptic, like
some
a
disease
prevalent.
may
It is
be
best
96
TUEKET
to sacrifice inferior
and
the
first to
the
Coops
the
of fowls
that
that
buildings
or
acid.
but
drenched
or
The
dollars,
disease
makes
of
signs of
and
sickness
thoroughly
carbolic
or
whose
worth
preventive
is
ment
treat-
early diagnosis of
An
has
one
to
be
the
on
first appearance,
on
or
recognize what
it
and
is, the
cause
cure.
"Immediate
isolation
promptly
enforced
diseased
persons.
other
flocks.
and
Every
that
going
with
the
of
use
to
the
mortality
among
like fowls.
milk
crumbs
Never
our
to
roup,
cold
food,
with
as
to
menace
contaminated,
if possible,
fresh, uncontaminated
to
turkeys should
land.
be
prevented
This, in combination
methods,
diseases, the
and
fed
should
the
wet, lack
of
stagnant
feed
on
most
do
are
and
cared
away
with
hard-boiled
essayistskeep
on
Use
hand
fed
grit with
water,
black
and
and
eggs,
your
by
food, sour,
Give
etc.
are
housed
is caused
their
pepper
use
dreaded
and
young,
rice, according to
give "sloppy" food.
be
to
turkeys
attacks
to
access
boiled
the
when
and
drink, and
and
a
as
turkeys."
Diarrhoea
to
uncooked
best
Of
"
and
is
be
bury deep, all diseased
they have
Other
turkeys
flock
or
survivors
should
diseased
infected
infected
the
according
diarrhoea
of
case
vigorous stock only, bred
for
DiAEEHCEA.
disinfection
bum,
up.
the
onto
and
which
the
keep this
from
exposure
and
remove
land, and
the
in
Kill
birds, disinfect
of
be
the
time.
one
to
expert
an
in
possible. But
this
alert to observe
something
at
destroyed.
of copperas
principally
lies
of large nunibers
a
lain, should
doctoring fowls
in
remote
occupied by them,
been
solution
a
great bimefit
few
a
with
be
still,boiled
be
may
germs
have
they have
ground where
sprayed
infectious
the
location
a
ally
usu-
should
birds
or, better
animals,
are
to become
apt
are
ground, in
or
they
as
diseased
of
Carcasses
haunts
burned,
or
infected, and
buried, deep under
promptly
from
sickly specimens,
become
breeders.
disease
CULTUEE.
scalded
stale bread
convenience.
freely. Some
occasionally whole
HIKDEANCBS
black
pepper,
taken
with
cured.
have
cured
Douglas Mixture
Roup
which
not
is
So
of the
It
housed, pampered,
or
The
prominent
prominent
is
called
malignant
human
beings.
necessary
turkey.
Kill
the
from
germs
ofE the
If any
or
on
It
of
a
from
pus
diseased
a
where
the
skin
Dry quarters for the
ensue.
food
and
keep
your
flock
away
from
diseased
The
free
free from
of this
importance
following
Review
from
extract
called
"Five
Poultry Eaising.
to cold
and
It
will
wet
stated,will produce
is
cause
is not
grass
if
scourge,
they
"
1.
Never
poison.
your
of the
Eoup,
this exudation
is not
kept
are
to
me
subjoin the
fact
as
Fancier!?
Answers
that
more
on
exposure
correctly
inflg,mmatory action and resulting
acute
nose,
will
wet, will
exudation, eventually embracing the entire surface
membranes
eyes
premises.
Questions and
well-known
a
or
disease
is
publication of the
Hundred
"
r
some
turkeys ; clean, whole-
subject impels
the
necks
no
gets into
contaminated
or
spoil
the
blood
in
con-
abraded, trouble
the
this
stock
is
young
when
range
The
surface.
very
bird
properly
would
to the
come
wet.
influenza
deeply that
fowl ; the
roupy
be
Wring
so
with
run
cure.
roup
are
cold and
may
than
first case.
could
not
than
is worse
bury them
ever
do
to
disease
is better
bury the
hand
your
the
that
turkeys
that
or
properly doctor
and
head
of the
the
of
use
of all diseases
is exposure
cause
to
them
dreaded
overfed,
catarrh.
ones
be
rarely affects
this, that
and
diseased
by the
flock
to
Prevention
flnement
cut
most
poultry.
fowls.
rice,and thus
boiled
alone.*
one
afBict
whole
a
turkeys
properties. Adult
be fed with
can
91
DISEASES.
for its wholesome
diarrhoea
I
AND
mouth, throat
and
of the
windpipe.
If
speedily checked, it degenerates into
m
"
Keep
Is the formula
for the Douglas
Following
Sulphuric acid,Sulphate of Iron (copperas),
Water,
in a stone
of water
in the
7
jug or vessel.
drinking vessel.
Add
one
Mixture:
2 ounces
V2 pound
2 gallons
to every
tablespoouful
quart
98
CULTUEE.
TUEKET
which
pup,
of roup,
and
is the
this
In
2.
discharge present in the
is the
becoming
subjacent tissue,
This
These
the
the
roup,
pressing
tive
exudathe
upon
tions
ulcera-
ulcerations
the
are
for
have
becomes
impaired, and
been
a
arrived
ula
scrof-
in
They
the
studying
diseased
time
killing
upon,
dissecting them.
first stage, curable
at after
during which
years,
experimented
and
stages
is
blood
have
three
been
stagnation of the
at, there
supervene.
conclusions
disease
in the
These
arrived
liver disease
various
and
is disseminated.
foreign body, causing
a
surface.
condition
processes,
and
fowls
stages
"cankers."
nutritive
the
as
the
on
appear
so-called
3.
acts
diphtheritic
permanent
two
this disease
which
in
stage, termed
membrane,
to
only mode
last
the
at
some
easily cured
are
second, and
not
worth
be
t^-eatment
curing in the third.
following will be found
The
for all stages of the
to
unequaled
disease, combined
with
nutritious, soft
food:
Pills.
Sulphate of
"
half grain;
copper,
grain ; hydrastine, half
one
Venetian
grain
;
pepper,
copaiba, three
section.
turpentine, quarter
cayenne
In
drops
pill,night
;
and
morning.
Lotion.
a
if
"
Sulphate of
copper
To
wash
pint of rain
water.
quarter
out
dissolved
ounce,
the mouth
and
in
nostrils,
required.
The
acting
tar
simplest
as
a
water
as
These
chicks
when
farms
in Rhode
they
are
Island,
fine
three
gapes
red
pound
the
found
worms
birds,
young
from
tle
lit-
clear
"
very
of
a
one
decanting
use.
are
windpipe
and
water
water
add
to
it, prepared by stirring about
required for
or
preventing their drinking
spreading the disease, is
gallons of
two
Gapes."
trachea
to
water
of tar in
of
means
of
means
most
to six weeks
had
caused
the
in
the
destructive
old.
death
On
to
many
of
fifty
100
TURKEY
moist
and
subjected
embryo
within
escapes
by pushing
eight
the
CULTURE.
to
is sufficient
moisture,
such
the
for tlie
about
in
They
have
been
stage almost
with
low
manner.
of from
at this
but
26 and
68
77
to
live
more
The
trations,
illus-
not
days.
ten
or
they
by subjecting
27, reproduced
report of United
of Animal
These
temperature,
did
Figs.
from
shell.
year
degrees, they
eight
with
embryo
kept alive
temperature
a
than
the
the
serpentine
a
a
a
Twenty-
in water, where
swim
to
finally
warmth,
of
from
live
embryos
them
of
development
its escape
and
and
coverlets.
degree
a
degrees, the
77
about
turns
of
one
away
thirty days of
to
and
moves
egg
of
temperature
a
States
Bureau
Industry, 1884, represent
the
various
the
mature
stages from
the
attached
worm
to
egg
to
the
trachea.
Fowls
become
food
ways,
the
two
27.
WINDPIPE
OF
^"^""
Slit open
show
a
gapeworms
Inside,
and
pinned
large number
attached
size.
natural
thus
worms
young
may
are
D.
Walker
H.
the
part of
of
to
host
eggs
or
to
sure
has
to
full
by
near
Two
fit of
present
pointed
the
gapeworm
preserved for
soil
a
wherever
or
Birds
affected
frequently expel,
coughing, plump
gape-
of
fowls
with
weeks
symptoms
out
Other
egSS.
Consume
three
is very
eggs
fall.
malady
The
common.
be
the
may
this
in a
to
the nrorms
the
ejected.
fowls
Dr.
back
being probably
strong and
with
JL
embryos
gapeworm
the
eral
sev-
containing
most
in
m
water
vitality of
long time
FIG.
and
the live
or
eggs
infected
that
avidity the
later
these
of the
malady.
earthworms
embryo,
and
same
act
believes
HINDBATTCES
they
that
the
are
infected
is not
soils often
a
earthworms
will
they
the
aid
natural
not
are
if chicks
that
have
not
line, they would
that
might
not
chicks
they have
trachea, and
infected
a
will not
with
of fresh
feet of
Chicks
ground.
soil of which
The
has
before
die.
Avoid
chicks
the
giving
destroying the
lime
been
place of the lime, but
rain
be
water
infection
the
every
pens
for
if
by
the
or
ground
is freed
half
square
may
infected
soil, water
tion.
infec-
escape
dissolved
an
tion
infec-
eight weeks, the
be
they
no
ment.
develop-
soil
be
from
large quantity of salicylicacid
for
salt may
or
mains
re-
kept there.
coarse
put in,
in
and
hundred
purified, usually
it must
are
long been
plat of
a
few.
a
by spreading
done
on
kept in
thus
on
unless
can
quantity of
same
conditions
gapeworms,
air-slaked
by
germs,
are
so
dislodge the
infection, but
chicks
young
This
the
not
length of time, the
of necessary
contamination.
bushel
the
remove
folly to put
infected
with
ofE
pass
are
poults have
or
He
perhaps
eggs
to
chickens
as
sufficient
a
for want
It is
from
long
it is
embarrassed
not
are
first
gapeworm
chicks
power
infected
as
kept for
are
field
just
birds
the
dies out
or
more
the
the
Older
the
North.
thinks
that
hatch.
to
still
without
below
of
but
rapid
so
that
in the
eggs
disease,
kept, the ground becomes
poultry
fresh
Walker
argues
gapewornls
gape-infected chicks
Wherever
Curing
He
exterminated
on
Dr.
where
eating earthworms,
from
kept
is found
soil.
be
time
the
from
worms
the
carry
the
susceptible, because
disease
to
digestion is
they have
before
the
gapes.
fed
contract
their
because
soon
in
embryos, the earthworm
to
are
the
of earthworms
admits
the
gapus.
earthworms
tliat while
host, because
necessary
maintains
show
contain
spreading the
.of
means
experiments
recent
More
prime
]01
DISEASES.
AND
used
in
water
eat
or
it
and
For
source.
containing
sulphuric acid is
a
mended
recom-
by Megnin.
There
are
many
gapeworms.
very
old and
Air-slaked
effective
lime
has
remedies
long
been
for
moving
re-
used
103
TURKEY
and
has been
found
the
trachea.
Afflicted
CtTLTUEB.
promptly
to
chickens
is covered
this
is
the
cause
dust
which
enters
causes
them
do
or
chick
and
The
worms.
which
worms,
and
strong
so
This
to
through,
retain
not
windpipe.
to the
harm
no
air-
jarred
to fall
lime
On
of
is then
to affect the
hold
the
handful
a
cough off the
to
on
muslin.
lungs of the chickens
the
their
hold
do
of the
is supposed
release
a
placed
box, which
a
of thin
lime, the muslin
slaked
lime
sheet
a
from
worms
placed in
are
with
muslin
the
remove
is
said
to be
a
to
sure
cure.
Another
old-f ashionea
which
confine
box
the
while
fumes
with
they
fumigated
on
a
of
against it and
where
I fumes
them
to expose
of
may
be
coop
FIG.
28.
C^CA
in
for
slat floor, under
""ntoi^iS?''Seil!|
be most
would
whiiTthe
iwlfwin^
''"'"*
iSca!"'
girtor
number
are
into
number
compartment
to
of
bolic
car-
one
the
comer
their
actions
ventilation
fumes.
which
By the
box, the
the
box
desired.
the
use
chickens
from
their
An
upper
chickens, having
the
acid
is
satisfactory where
be
may
usually long enough
in the
driven
any
is
to the
sliding door
a
are
will huddle
from
dense,
A minute
given.
fumes
chickens
away
the
through the glass. If the
too
seem
with
is glass in
is, while
be watched
may
be
keep
to
placed in the
If there
brick
the
The
brick
red-hot
box, the
the
is
teaspoonful
a
erally
gen-
canvas-covered
a
acid.
of the box.
quite
success,
to
by pouring
acid
corner
great
are
of treatment,
been
chickens
carbolic
of
produced
end
to have
seems
followed
method
handled.
a
burned,
a
large
Dr. Roth, Mrs.
Carson, and
with
treatment
be
killed,
for the
valuable
is
the
down
not
is
and
cure
most
as
phor
Cam-
remedies.
other
water,
phorated
cam-
oil and
sweet
petroleum,
crude
recommended
each
drop
in
from
a
per,,
drop-
feather, is
or
said to be all that is
to kill
the
and
A
of
feather
of its web,
the
tip, and
with
oil
a
used
the
ped
stripat
except
moistened
mixture
and
essary
nec-
cause
removal
worms.
one
windpipe
the
can
are
;
medicine
oil
of sweet
turpentine, is
by
It is inserted
some.
29.
FIC
the
in
twisted
drawn.
not
as
Worms
may
Some
externally
gapes.
be
in
"
destroyed
mouths
or
in
"
of the
or
ulcerated
and
disease.
this way,
simply
throats
tobacco, petroleum
Waokliead
of chickens
large numbers
poultry keepers
to the
Pine
C^CA
turkey, thickened, enlarged
it is with-
practicable where
treated.
DISEASED
windpipe,
Of
and
practice
common
simple and
severe
as
Another
roup.
is also
treatment
will
surely
and
This
worms.
long, they may
too
with
it
as
quickly and
to it is
water
windpipe
feather,
them,
of
only objection
drops of
and
salt
the
as
plan of
fumigated
are
cure
drop six
to
strong
a
well
as
The
success.
chickens
if the
that
great
this
long followed
others, have
many
103
DISEASES.
AND
HINDRANCES
but
are
it is
to be
apply turpentine
chickens
having
kerosene, turpentine.
104
assafoetida and
ing with
TUEKET
CULTURE.
alum, all have
been
feed,
the
to
grains of assafoetida
pulverized
by
the
to
is much
trouble
in
and
into
being absorbed
is thrown
off
which
the
the
the
the
should
the
will have
open,
way
into
well
as
should
enter
the
the
air
dead
be burned,
disease.
skunks
cure.
total
struction
de-
and
ground, it is
the
mature
sustained
any
will
inset
or
and
escape
a
killed
Decomposition
jury.
cut
wing of the caecum
showing its diseased state,
water.
be realized.
are
upon
to
parasites after
scarcely likely that
sifle
about
than
of
worms
thrown
One
are
nin
Meg-
drinking
is better
importance
eggs
they
adding
their removal,
^'
windpipe,
mucous.
of the
quart
of
^'""
the
grains of salicylicacid
Prevention
If
lungs
with
it is fatal, and
recommends
The
system,
contact
in the
ejected with
each
the
through the
brouglit into
fifteen
dough,
substances,
into
parasitic worms
to
ten
faithfullyfed,
are
volatile part of these
and
to
explanation is that the
The
reduced.
Five
made
garlic or onions
one-half
quantity of
same
feed.
their
ease.
dis-
gape
and
seven
the
pint of meal
a
When
some.
with
combined
for mix
the
out
stamp
pheasant
gentian
yellow
drops of turpentine
is used
and
prevent
gives each
Megnin
M.
recommended
If
and
preservation and
of
bodies
if
infected
wet
of
to
birds
are
prevent
are
infection
places
bird.
some
may
find
The
worms,
to
the
supposed
development
the
buried,
of these
embryos
young
anything affected
wish
we
the
eggs,
ultimately
soil, and
passages
bring the
may
Pools
the
free the
with
their
as
them,
spread of the
earthworms
or
surface.
to be favorable
germs.
to the
It has often
HIKDEANCES
been
spring and
In
that
observed
during those
stamping
of
following
summers
quantity of
sufficient
For
than
more
IN
TUKKEYS
fifteen
years
turkeys raised
among
in
winter.
tion
addi-
carbolic
to the
or
wet
ing
drink-
that
eggs
are
overlooked.
be
not
worms
a
of the
petroleum
or
destroy
to
ejected therein, should
"BLACKHEAD"
mild
a
germicide like
some
acid, salicylicacid, assafoetida
water,
prevalent during
more
trouble, the importance
this
out
small
a
are
gapes
105
DISEASES.
AND
CONTAGIOUS.
IS
has
there
New
southern
as
great loss
from
England,
a
disease
contagious
supposed
known
been
"blackhead."
It has
entirely prevented turkey raisI ing
farms, and
many
on
jcaused
has
struction.
de-
great
lic
Pubattention
first
directed
this
disease
Prof.
was
to
by I
Cushman
of the
Khode
land
Is-
Experiment
in
Station,
of
summer
31.
no.
One
from
thickened
at that
States
"
.
institution
Bureau
and
described
be infectious.
Chief
of
the
showing
Not
New
closely
the
of Animal
in Bulletin
the
work
that
was
taken
coast, certain
by the United
which
flocks
it
the
Moore,
sults,
re-
contagious.
being confined
in
might
gives later
is
peared
ap-
illustrated
by V. A.
blackhead
of
it
on
that
Pathology,
conclusively that
caxJum
ing.
report
5, just issued
of Animal
1
lOllOWed
A
other
from
rig. 29,cut
crosswise
to
show
thicken-
"
indicated
disease, and
No.
J.
Bureau,
only is this true, but instead
England
was
Industry.
8 from
Circular
Bureau
,
,
.
until
me
to
membrane,
mucous
1893.
matter
;
fig.
j-i
The
Fig. 29, slit open
csecum
ehow
mi_
the
Middle
to
the
and
106
TUEKEY
States
Western
the
into
affected.
are
The
of
losses
the
has
disease
States, though
Western
South, while
CULTURE.
not
extended
found
yet
in
this
alone
source
are
large. Evidence
of
districts.
infected
by
of
stormy
weather.
liver
and
gradually
More
turkeys succumb
trouble
a
it may
is
and
on
;
bowel,
which
ulcerated.
stages is covered
of tissue within
time.
proach
ap-
The
quickly
succumb
in
blackhead
wet,
almost
does
hence,
old
ently
appar-
cjecum
becomes
The
the
at
tine.
intes-
from
disease
first affects the
early in
infected
transmitted
The
young.
latter
the
against it during
out
Klfi.
to
to
of thi-
infection
place later
be
develops.
in
other
any
hold
to
they
disease
turkey
at
turkeys dying from
The
early in life,and
take
able
part of the
a
The
not
than
weather,
invariably have
all ages,
August,
weathc-r, but
dry
at
tij"))iai;kijead."
seem
warm,
attacks
part of July and
cold
birds
affected
It
33.
PIG,
dark
turns
and
the
Spotted liver due
head
turkeys
young
bowels,
the
purple.
or
panied
accom-
diarrhoeal
a
discharge from
the
The
usually
is
disease
the
sprinkled with
is
country
while
entire
third
Northern
very
lates
accumu-
the
that
I
from
turkey growers
Eastern
the
or
thickened
liver
is
with
circular
the organ
also
Natural
pronged
and
(see Figs.
liver.
on
part of the
enlarged and
spotted, and
areas,
34.
size of spots
in
lower
badly
advanced
showing destruction
28 to 34 inclusive
). The
108
CULTUEE.
TUKKET
TAPEWOEMS
OF
PKEVALENCE
work
Our
the
examine
to
us
with
disease
length for tapeworms,
affected
with
the
from
than
and
birds
in
intestines
the
in
worms
ones
in the
large
ones
these
worms
intestine.
and
month,
week,
of
be
from
found
was
could
small
many
of the
that
in
was
showed
Smith,
these
in
various
sick
were
trouble
during the
turkeys
parts
of
secured
is
summer
very
the
instances
dying condition
lost
lower
or
over
for
four
weeks
and
the
sickness
in
testine
in-
of
long
old
had
remainder
those
fiftyin number.
many
one
a
of tapeworms
numbers
State, and
any
a
within
part of the
mature
embryos
from
and
long
two
cause
great
ripe
prevalent
months
small
dying for
apparently
come
from
Some
completely filled with
of
tlie
were
worms
large number
long, about
that
of
been
duodenum,
examination
microscopical
As
inches
ease,
dis-
prolongation of
a
been
three
almost
length
long.
or
in
other
with
the
of
Worms
minute
blind
very
no
turkey
but
still others
one
had
Frequently
worms
several
were
birds
a
size, and
little
intestines
by Dr.
thirty
fairly crowded
One
worms.
had
turkeys
discovered.
In
found
bird
contain
to
in
numbers
only in the
which
medium
was
this
which
Turkeys
of that
more
in
intestine.
One
more
of very
and
upper,
found
flock from
a
the
lower
were
lower
the
in
found
were
were
traces
or
intestine, while
lower
they
only large fully developed
intestine, others
the
entire
inches
only great numbers
upper
the
tapeworms.
foot
a
bird
tapeworms,
no
several
occasionally those
contained
from
showed
to
bled
ena-
suspected.
forty contained
inch
an
that
even
free
that
of
of each
had
were
"blackhead"
as
found
we
we
blackhead
quarter of
a
found,
in
and
sixty-fiveexamined
the
known
intestines
the
generally infested
CUSHMAN.
SAMUEL
PROF.
TUKKEYS.
IN
Rhode
present.
different
one
place, it
among
segments
were
but
A
farms
or
that
seems
young
two
turkeys
Island, and
this
HINDRANCES
may
account
for
other
sections.
from
I
convinced
am
of
numbers
turkeys, and
be
Turkeys
season.
this
After
they
be
may
roosts
found
the
embryos
gradually
while
a
How
A
receive
young
them
and
they receive
the
is
yet
Bureau
States
and
species" one
that
of them
stage in the
Another
hosts
Dr.
Salmon
and
tapeworm
some
it
thinking
intermediate
spring is
or
an
insects
keys,
tur-
Stiles,of the United
Dr.
to
that
says
Italian
certain
of all
common
ten
"
different
tigators,
by inves-
described
are
another
will
and
be
its
for
has
a
authors
pass
two
their larval
that
found
that
they will
host.
there
be
intermediate
snail
as
is,
able
to
at
its host.
earthworms,
hosts
intermediate
the
are
embryos,
for
reason
snails
in the
fly.
slugs, while
thinks
harm,
droppings of old
species, it is said, has
various
insects
house
little
infection, or whether
the
chickens
the most
do
may
the
Industry,
according
the
mostly passed out, they
from
from
more
until
snails, worms
determined.
species of tapeworms
dently
Evi-
turkeys.
survive
embryos
scatter
of Animal
the
under
parasites, the
birds
of
fatal.
the
infection
be
to
the
Whether
thus
most.
diarrhoea,
morning
worms
be
may
interesting question.
harbor
few
the
segments
infected
have
spasms
able to withstand
seasons,
the
the
and
recover.
great number
the
if
developed
have
certain
early in
Doubtless
suffer.
they
suffer
derangement,
they receive
younger
have
early
apparently irritate
worms
droppings of the
the
among
At
worm
from
better
are
of great
throughout the
tapeworms
they
The
death
sometimes
digestive
death.
and
weakness
worms
old
reported
suitable
turkeys
young
months
causing
bowels,
with
fall,and
injurious effect.
the
the
them
troubled
often
the
cause
frequently given
Very
three
is
some
are
cause.
are
that
that
late in the
spring until
from
turkeys
that tapeworms
little
should
medicine
may
loss of
109
DISEASES.
AND
for these
present,
no
out
develop with-
110
TURKEY
In
whatever
these
way
them, and
of
use
The
they
simple
the
medicines
worm
land, and
if
the
greater
snails
eggs,
and
from
be
there
the
have
been
not
harbor
will
become
not
from
wornis
for the
seed
on
be
preventive
a
fresh,uncontaminated
have
not
dose
that
Give
run
will
infested
inclosure, and
are
free from
the
move
them
to
or
of the
any
harbor
to
the
be
should
that
matter
we
ground.
wander
to
turkey
Probably the best results
freshly powdered
out
the
turkeys
knowledge
for
turkeys
occasional
an
embryos.
ground
on
flocks
medicine
kousso
that
to
until
the
over
the
they
we
gained
by
raisers
to
may
or
be
wild
birds,
ground,
same
will have
for tapeworms
and
what
are
ages,
in
amount
advise
can
tions
ques-
this
on
practical experience,
test
expected
cusso.
the
infection.
different
Until
an
off. Then
measures
turkey,
at
pass
that
remedies
naturally arise.
it
other
young,
additional
well-known
to
turkeys
or
If it is found
that
suited
given
from
leave
new
best
little
eggs
entirely stamp
is
spring
and
infected
worm
fore,
there-
;
destroy the
to
the
crop
gapeworm
or
prevent
frequently disinfect
pen,
animals
old
embryos,
meanwhile,
to
of
be
with
tapeworms,
Which
animals
them
treat
same
taken
and
contain
will
give them
Confine
years.
worms;
in
gi-ound
and
turkeys, either
for several
mediate
inter-
tapeworm
winter
that chickens
destroy tapeworm
keeping
up
land
for years,
upon
the
in this way.
tapewoiin
the
a
upon
the
we
Raise
measure.
on
the
no
infected
ter.
wa-
grown,
their
are
dosing the breeding turkej's in the
would
or
kept
sown
earthworms
earthworms
sowing
been
annually
eggs
keep turkeys free
can
them
Where
turkeys will
young
we
and
food
generally will the turkeys
more
infecting embryos.
have
number
slugs, snails and
host, the
freed
promptly
in their
turkeys
thoroughly will tapeworm
more
be
may
quent
injurious results prevented, by the fre-
any
longer infected
farm, and
of
turkeys receive the embryos
young
parasites, doubtless
from
If
CULTTJBE.
for
from
themselves.
the
According
use
to
of
the
HINDEAKOES
United
States
being is, for
adult
an
one-fourth
empty
stomach.
ounce
A
in three
the
dose
dose
the
35.
FIG.
is
brisk
of
doubled.
TAPEWORM
FROM
on
is
the
be
destroy the
ive,
effect-
prove
to
seems
A
an
should
to
not
six
bowels
act
cathartic
Kousso
of
upon
the
not
usually sufBcient
human
child
a
medicine
a
a
morning
quantity mentioned
be
may
in the
the
four hours,
One
Should
worms.
; for
ounce
taken
;
should
or
administered.
an
for
treatment
previous evacuation
and
recommended,
half
Ill
DISEASES.
Dispensatory, the
years,
bowels
AND
act
only
TURKEY.
selected
from
about
In a turkey three
four
or
fifty found
There
is so little known
about
of fowls, and
so much
tapeworms
have
unable
and
been
as to description
classification, that experts
in various
velopment.
it- a, head;
6, neck ; c, d and
stages of dee, segments
formed
to the
The
next
head, are
or
ally
gradujoints are
segments
and finally become
terminal
pushed back by the growth of new
segments,
Each
adult
and
tains
conthey mature,
separate
segment
(e), where
pass
away.
and
female
and when
from
the main
male
it separates
complete
organs,
which
into some
porary
tembody, is full of embryos,
are
supposed to find their way
host before
1 sland EX'
."Rhode
they reach their final host, the tai^s^^y
Illustration
of
one
weeks
old.
confusion
to Identify
periment Station.
as
of
poison'to the
worms,
the
Koussein
a
patient.
and
or
is said
kosin, the
kousso, is highly recommended,
dose for
Male
distinct
death
of
a
not
two
to
fect
seriously af-
principle
active
scruples being the
man.
fern
is
an
poison.
a
in the lower
person.
Six
but
effective remedy,
drams
It
has
animals, and
of
the
been
should
an
overdose
oil have
known
be
caused
to cause
used
with
is
a
the
blindness
extreme
112
used
Tansy is much
for
light doses
and
to
how
learn
thus
great
healthy turkeys with
be able
may
many
immediately
is
which
the
as
in the
food
water.
or
with
combined
the
food, and
and
some,
both
This
French
a
ing
overcom-
to
possess
either
investigator,
grains assafoetida,
one-half
and
quantity of pulverized gentian, in
same
the
overcame
ad
Turpentine
gapeworms.
possibly enable
may
Assafoetida,
is administered
Megnin,
SI.
and
success,
cause.
slight quantities in the food
in
ministered
with
to
that
hoped
fowls, is also said
of
very
given
preventing and
for
remedy.
tapeworm
be
to
this
from
disease
jjheasant seven
each
their
loss
prevent
a
is
It
duced
re-
others,
to
be
may
apply thesc. remedies
to
gapeworm
larger doses
impunity.
much
administer
may
quantity
a
highly recommended
virtues
gave
raisers
with
remedy.
a
as
to be
have
would
turkeys, and
few
a
is also used
seed
areca
dogs and
frequently combined
Turkey
turkeys.
from
is
remedies
of these
dose
The
powdered
tapeworms
pumpkin
oil.
castor
of
latter
Ground
fern.
male
removal
The
animals.
other
preventive, and
a
as
for the
is used
nat
with
given in combination
It is often
caution.
by
CULTURE.
TURKEY
the
is recommended
turkey raiser
to kill
parasites.
Liver
other
Turkeys
"
have
may
of the liver if
little chance
exercise, etc.
too
be
should
for
and
enlargement
non-contagious diseases
given
birds
Disease.
inbred, overfed,
All
suspected
immediately slaughtered, examined
and
buried.
Leg
weakness,
such
Caused
Weakness."
specimens
food
wrong
of
out
either
your
or
by inherited
bad
flock
tional
constitu-
Clean
management.
at
and
once
avoid
the
cause.
HOW
Our
the
E.
the
TO
KEEP
illustration
on
largest turkey ranch
Dawley
farmers'
of
Onondaga
TUKKEYS
Page
in
94
the
AT
shows
world.
county, N.
institute work
in that
HOME.
what
It
probably
is owned
Y., who
State.
is
He
by F.
is manager
of
raises
tur-
HINDKANOES
keys in
from
wholesale
a
their
wandering
park fence, eighty
are
hatched
and
fall.
to conform
giving butchers'
take
mill, to
By careful
are
the
stuff,and
green
feed
that
a
account,
have
than
those
per
pound
and
the
quality is much
learned
lessons
those
who
growing
other
give
enclosed
during the
let them
out
grit.
turkeys which
flesh
on
of
at
the
less
a
restraint,
ble
profita-
most
experience is,that
turkey raising because
of
done
or
berries,grain
to
again take
it
and
up,
occasionally rise
may
so
soar
far that
fencing in
of
raisers
ing
by build-
sort
will be
down
and
to
description for
series of small
the
8
at
most
The
yards made
laying hen
one
the
Its
known
Page
make
wire
of
U.
This
merits
by all
Wire
Woven
fencing of
and
cost, to all who
S. A.
,
parts of this turkey ranch
with
turkeys
are
or
field
possible purpose,
every
Adrian, Mich.
valued
of
The
outside.
be
give particulars,free
them
of the
One
the
should
profitablefowl.
to
that
center
on
will not
by mistake.
remarkably cheap.
turkey pastures
this
happy
will write
which
the
near
damage, and
They
them, except
come
and
unless
Co., of Adrian, Mich., also
Fence
every
they
durable
is very
fence
keeps
do
harvested.
enclosure
eighty-eight-inch fence
two
they would
are
crops
ten-acre
a
that
season
after the
fly out from
for
up
bone
a
succulent
of
without
One
large, by
at
limestone
that
lay
ble
possi-
as
through
run
roam
have
can
crops,
nearly
as
Dawley's
Mr.
to
brought
park with this Page deer park fence, keep their flocks
a
and
which
th"iir birds
damage
the
had
have
and
broken
will
better.
from
brooders,
finds
kept in partial confinement
cost
in
insects, plenty
Dawley
poults
raised
farms
been
supply of
Mr.
large pasture
a
young
turkeys roaming
place of
good
in
of the
made
is
diet of
scraps
and
outside
on
Their
to the
Many
incubators
in
trouble
any
Page twenty-flve-bar deer
the
high.
hatched
are
in the
home
with
inches
at home
otliers
by keeping them
away
orchard, fenced
and
entirely avoids
and
way,
113
DISEASES.
AND
the
is
a
Page wire fence, in
kept during the
breed-
114
TUBKET
ing
Such
yard
a
turkeys
"watchin'
a
blamed
serious
most
feet,
their
Then,
Page
67,
only
on
small
a
from
a
lot
neighbors
the
this
while
by
often
turkeys
troubles
are
it
is
also
away
by
be
the
Dawley
Mr.
profitably
profitable
"
blood
for
is
latter
not
is
often
lost.
Page
deer
park
and
others
fencing
for
the
mer
for-
turkeys
tween
be-
caused
are
used
practical
prevent
straying
and
87.
on
while
of
depredations
stray
of
can
bad
the
obviated
experience
fencing
"
does
on
described
as
turkeys,
and
work
Much
straying.
and
of
often
Page
on
"
the
breeding
or
marked
described
But
for
is
be
can
shingling,
employed.
scale
involves
"
nests,"
bounds
within
system
of
system
be
can
the
to
and
eggs."
turkeys
course,
there
vermin,
turkeys'
her
to
where
secured,
other
or
turkeys
Of
one.
the
turkey
farm
be
"hunting
in
keeping
according
too,
lost
rats
laid.
have
every
can
egg
skunks,
hen
of
matter
nearly
every
is
they
after
day
on
pay
crows,
time
no
a
This
will
from
this,
each
out
because
kept,
losses
beside
let
this
as
are
no
are
and
season,
CULTURE.
turkeys,
All
these
fence,
and
indicates
such
against
a
other
that
purpose,
stock.
116
ful lookout
for the eggs
all
to
turkeys
toward
as
cotton
some
or
eggs
return
a
nest,
as
prevent
are
removed
hen's
until
is
turkey
the
there
should
always be dry and
Fifteen
small, thirteen
often
will
thirty days,
makes
be
compelled
should
have
water,
that
she
of" the
time
to
access
easy
work
house
the
and
ing
only task beThe
nest
if possible.
ground
Four
if
weeks, and
the
This
eggs.
yet she
Turkey,
Mrs.
faithfully,consequently
forced
of
food
remain
to
food, thus
to procure
in
to
large hen, and
a
abundance
an
be
not
may
nest
her
do
to
the
on
for active
rest
six
my
hatch
to
As
is better
the
results.
required
are
long period of
a
must
give better
sionally,
occa-
shell.
enemies.
suflBcient for
are
eggs
wild
large, and
turned
or
near
grove
natural
on
easily discomfited.
skill themselves,
from
be
down,
the
to
five
suspicious and
with
nests
much
dry, cool, dark
nest, it
are
for
should
end
be
adhering
or
do
egg
a
they should
once,
daily from
protect them
to
kept in
and
settling
egg,
their
arrange
and
pure
long
too
allowing the
a
eggs
chill.
Caee
of
I throw
nest,
Youxg.
the
hard-boiled
a
would
two, if it is
hatching, she
will often
the
over
this egg
eat
may
save
not
will
and
needed
use
the
turkey refuse
the
fine, close
to
the
the
egg
rendering
turkey, which
young
shell.
The
given the
one
for her
day
egg,
the
little ones,
first-hatched
birds.
to leave
the
If she
warm
near
nest
leaves
hens,
the
or
mother
in
and
soon,
hatched
fire. Should
is
she
case
this food
I have
for three
too
key
tur-
following day
but
young,
it for the
be placed under
keeping
an
from
eggs
and
to
twenty- seventh
very
of the
hatched.
may
the
beak
first eggs
in wool
About
mashed
egg,
his escape
prevent
mother
"
into, lest it adhere
not
air-tightexactly
the
at
Each
placed, small
turkeys lay entirely in the
My
or
and
laid
used
petting will
house.
the
near
is natural
It
kept.
nest, but
soft material
to
a
be
must
the
as
soon
If not
place.
the
hide
keeping them
gathered
to
CUITUBE,
TURKEY
had
the
days after
the remaining
by wrapping
an
egg
be-
ESSAYS
PRIZE
immediately
washed
and
dried
returned
at
watching, then
until
or
exhausts
the
treatment
to
the
feathers
(fresh from
fine
wheat, bread
is
cow
for the
take
expensive.
During
much
keeping her
mother.
of the
the
as
firstweek
from
be
the
which
allowed
little
thus
not
lie
for
small
red
black
young
turkeys. They
or
kill the
turkey, but
them
death.
to
The
fourth
milk
curd
from
the
salt.
After
in
small
the
Salt, salt
the
they have
access
the
pens
of
to
time.
these
as
that
the
or
give mother
morning,
grain fields.
their
backs,
will
die
if
must
of
head
and
contain
fish will
and
During
the
to
and
oatmeal,
of
wheat
and
in before
instantly choke
scraps
salt
day,
enemies
the
consist
of the
hills
are
attack
may
and
Care
the
near
only
food
brine
the
onto
eaten, will almost
care
eighth week,
in
length
quantities, cracked
meat,
only
get
more
warm
her
rise, and
any
not
table, taking
Feed
if
week
to
is
turks.
young
cannot
ants,
if
be
to shut
care
apt
are
ones
place
to
bread, which
weather
corn
first and
and
to the
position they
to
taken
is harmful
dew
wheat,
the mother
if the
and
eggs
Feed
taking
of sweet
hard-boiled
during the middle
out
coop,
fowls.
little ones,
egg
a
dampness,
consist
should
have
must
young
best), very
this time,
the
near
especial
need
by other
for the
sunshiny, let the mother
the
and
food
the
crumbs
she will not
fowl, and
the
draughts of air,free from
weeks
the
fresh water
sunset,
mother
they will be undisturbed
milk
and
the
ducing
pro-
difficulty.
this
counteract
The
started.
they
stant
con-
eight weeks
are
weaken
to
trying time
they require
they
therefore
and
system,
first three
The
The
nest.
well
are
carefully
be
hot, water, and
not
until
care
seems
first week,
where
and
to the
once
great
place, free from
warm
but
quill feathers
the
of these
For
should
soiled eggs
in warm,
117
CULTDEE.
turkeys is the first week, when
in the life of
old,
TURKEY
in the nest, the
broken
come
ON
brood
this
scraps
nothing
kill
them.
their
is not
sour
dom.
free-
needful
118
TUBKET
If
others,to
over
which
and
infect
water
and
pools,
as
other
must
Prevention
dose
is
either
for
necessity
cholera
sulphur,
ounces
Mix
or
to
turkey
one
need
not
This
mother
one
much
for
is very
in May,
the
a
little later
and
My
two
SIRS.
The
favors
extra
repaid before
stock
not
SUTTON,
from
a
be related
with
expense
of
the
inbred,
and
with
to
sweet
of young
time,
same
hearing of
the
they
the
ing
be-
little
This
first broods
hatchings
as
ones
lay again.
second
are
are
ten
of-
ready for market.
ESSAY.
COUNTY,
a
and
trio of
The
should
over
is
turkeys,
three
little
season
OHIO.
them
set
turkeys
dealer.
peras.
cop-
mother, after
when
but
laying
ounces
thirty little
to
former, and
results
reliable
or
the
pepper,
broods
two
and
mate
! Buy
eggs
little
lives, after which
TKUMEULL
start
a
two
mixture
other
PRIZE
hens, or purchase
give better
care.
P.
will I make
experience
will
C.
throughout
forty fowls.
sight and
desirable
SEC;OXD
How
The
ing
follow-
will be
at the
their
earlier, as the
or
best,only
BY
the
wet
week, will quickly
one
practicable and
hatched
in
of
at
tablespoonfuls
twenty-five
hovering.
out
bury deep
cayenne
two
hatched
from
to
if the
and
will feed
when
hover
can
closely confined
ones
add
meal, and
corn
ounces
alum
ounces
during the critical period
do
Two
:
stagnant
monthly,
even
pure
It is useless
and
cure,
profitablypractice giving
may
turkeys
two
from
chickens, there
or
cure
water.
warm
One
than
together and
all
eight quarts of
milk
turkeys
Land
contaminated
kill and
to
given fortnightly, or
to
year,
be
troubles.
better
is better
disease.
drink
to
produce bowel
"
at once
require plenty of
allowed
sick turkey
very
isolated
the
will
Turkeys
be
this may
once.
two
flocks.
not
a
wander
fowls
be
of
spread
prevent
diseased
doctor
the
sick, it should
turkey becomes
a
the
from
CULTUBE.
more
eggs
over.
torn
and
under
a
torn
hens.
turkey hens
outlay and
will
be
Purchase
hens
be thick-limbed
ply
am-
the
should
and
PRIZE
in
compact
ESSAYS
size.
layers and
not
Select young
so
breed; mine
and
take
on
in
January
flesh
rapidly and
hatched
toms
Be
yards where
disease.
there
has
It is much
prices
breeding
muscle-
that
date
and
which
at all
is
chopped
of
times,
night is
a
drinking
once
cold
turkeys
the
insure
laying. A
to the
much
as
fed, but
they
as
to
access
much
pure,
eggs,
feed
relished
give Sheridan's
of
out
they do
taken
are
week.
until
to
six
keys.
tur-
from
doors, but unless
the
lice,especially in
top
on
hen
in
of the
into
go
the
crates, look
the
a
turkeys have
My
not
of
condition
tablespoonful
a
are
bath, gravel,
dust
occasional
is
the
wheat,
buck-
hard-shelled
An
one
larger
1, is good
be
milk,
Provide
week
stormy
or
for nine
they should
and
leaves
the
shed.
them
large hollows
wings.
Dust
them
powder.
mating
peculiar call, well
the tug of war,
of
Feb.
should
insures
to roosts
insect
the
is
is
until
corn
as
twice
water
fertile eggs,
that
from
the
teaspoonful of the Douglas mixture
quill feathers
plentifully with
in
and
well
a
contagious
stock
select
from
buy
to
other
or
mash
feed,
thoroughly for
where
eighteen
Corn, oats, wheat
foods.
cabbage
shed, and
very
new
announces
sold
We
to
Lime
warm
give
to a
To
quiet
so
carefully attended
little
as
not
diet, which
importance.
least
their
in
gallon of
or
At
Also
between
his
has
are
weighed
eggs,
to
warm
lime.
clover
or
meal, wheat
great
comes.
powder
more
bone-forming
oyster shells and
over
which
stock
but
oats, bone
water
When
a
they
buy breeding
The
occasional
an
After
access
large size.
to
approaches.
season
plenty of
grass
fancier
attain
cholera
the
as
also be
can
with
been
lower.
are
importance,
clean
Each
prolilic
are
as
turkeys
better
early winter,
feed.
they
as
Jironze,
in June,
careful, in buying
or
hens,
dressed.
pounds
and
is the
119
CULTURE.
wander.
to
prone
favorite
fall
TURKEY
ON
must
known
is
hunting
out
of ten
not, either
co
a
will
in the
ten
occur
the
nest,
days before
turkey raiser,
and
now
comes
persist in laying just
woods,
a
mile
away.
120
along
or
fix
stream
a
number
a
the hen.
her
lay
stolen
When
march
go
turk
around
of
but
not
the
back
body
and
kept
hen
eggs
in
at the
and
hatch
with
out
the
as
wings.
a
the
over
near
together
they
hatch
hatch
best
by puttmg
nest
never
and
on
in
second
the
wide, and
pass
the
from
as
they
nine
will
of
hollowing,
as
turned
to
run
or
low
moist
or
they
set
eighteen
are
down
on
earth.
more
twenty
or
Then
tuikey.
a
Do
if
season.
Turkey
they
coops
If
eggs
nest
prepared
not
make
the
until
they
the
eggs.
largest hens
apt
As
common
do, place their
the
the
day.
a
together all the
all to
should
eggs
and
eleven.
across
the hen
every
her
on
they should
ground,
plenty
Turkey
joint
securely,
this except when
turkey
two
Take
grooves.
tie
sit, set
to
they
shingle
and
turks.
the
hen.
fence
a
in
use
and
of
the
large feathers
place, and
wants
on
time,
out
her
hand
chirp
has
grooves,
young
less, give them
deep and
lay the
her
eighteen,
the
a
If
saw
you
your
inch
an
for
seen,
watchful.
piece of
a
the
time, the
hen
afternoon.
straight to her
in
one
has
her up
fastening the piece of shingle
dry, cool
same
shut
time
field that
any
cloth
We
first hen
If she
being
the
wing hollow
around
tight, thus
too
is turned
each
cotton
and
make
answering call from
an
through the
wing
her, and
next
go
last, and
by taking
over
strong
the
the
soon
and
from
her
to seek
sly and
being
weeks
bring
through,
wide
piece
next
will
crawl
inches
for
saw
you
setting
to
to.
the
without
so
turks, take
young
to
starts
of eggs,
until
her
keep turkeys in
can
cannot
lead
in four
have
nestful
a
lay she will probably
the
you,
have
You
got
her
wish
you
liberate
to
to where
you
when
following her, do
you
near
and
not
wants
outwits
last, if
where
you
turkey takes
she
be
do
When
hen
a
on
leaves
they will be in danger of foxes,
of
near
of
view
a
deposit her first egg, keep watch
she
nest.
armful
an
Hen
night and
at
by carrying
animals, and
least
mated,
the turkeys have
Mrs.
at
a
When
select where
other
or
to
nest
swamp.
nests
Kever
muskrats
a
of
CULTURE,
bushes, selecting the site with
of
clumps
or
TURKEY
to break
PEIZE
Dampen
tepid
the
are
wvy
with
the
better.
where
she
has
interfered
it
crf.te, turn
the
hen
off every
weeks
two
If you
frequently
at those
three
by keeping fresh
to
nest
a
After
she
or
food
the
and
key
tur-
or
dish
end, and
one
will be
left
and
water
the
first week
be
can
are
coop
she
by morning
the
they
move
at
with
under
less
large slat
a
make
days,
the
wish
laid, take
quarters.
new
or
bens
close sitters and
evening, and
at
131
CULTURE.
common
upside down,
her
to
TURKEY
will get little chance
thev
as
from
ON
under
eggs
You
water.
turkey,
move
ESSAYS
onciled
rec-
let her
the
on
the
four
dust
bath
accessible.
In
can
the
for the
breeding
ble.
In
dry
ihe
same
about
the
disturb
not
be harti
soiled
and
scalded
a.
twice
the
in
Twice
powders
to
little of
anything
at
turkeys, whei.
feed
stale
corn
removed
to
a
poultry, and
used
for
carbolized
under
The
and
the
not
mark
a
grease;
top of
hen
also
coop
should
be
the
top of
the
wings
should
lice,the turkey's greatest
be
milk
chopped
onion
clabbered
milk
Kever
each
first feed
they
are
with
If the
other
from
barns.
The
toe
treated
with
the
is albo
again treated
enemy.
We
tire
or
i^ dusted
time,
eaters.
rails, away
head
but
like
clipped and
the
feed
treated
and
house
oats,
clabbered
fresh
up
mix
of
pen
squeezed
tablespoonful of the
get their
turks
or
or
feed.
baked
to the
close
Add
of
firfit
rolled
small, delicate
are
unless
meal
large
and
time
young,
When
bread.
quarts
two
a
dry, and
a
begin
The
water, and
give
week
a
"
fine, or stale bread
bread
the
posei
as
will
fir.st day.
colander.
a
turks
weeks, adi
two
all
wheat,
condition
nsver
hrst
tops, to
green
week.
a
the
cracked
id drained
better,
or,
quietly
as
up
with
It is
turkeys during the
crumbled
egg
she
for seclusion.
the
them
turks
young
twenty-eight days the little
possible. After
as
hen
attend
to
cracker.-.,
olightly moistened
oatmeal
as
of
desire
doing everything
Do
should
kills all the
torn
person
season,
hatch.
feed
or
state, the
find, hence
best
to
wild
greased,
insect
and
powder.
thoroughly for
turkeys
are
dy.
123
CULTURE.
TURKEY
ing, look
for
ones
that
burrow
may
look
a
The
bath.
dust
beef,
stale
If you
have
no
devour
it.
Give
the
drinking
in
show
signs of diarrhoea, give
of rhubarb
milk.
and
The
clean
the
out.
hen
do
them
let
not
The
turks
when
overtakes
tries to
and
her
how
see
trom
gajjes
After
or
night and
and
a
much
those
to
taking
week
an
be
and
have
results
order
had
book
hens
the
turks
your
fattened
feed
in
to
a
at
night
if
hen
day, and
turkey
a
cholera.
good forage,
at
are
bad
assumed
home
when
time
care
of
Nov.
1,
until
should
be
separated
them
going
com
from
meal.
up.
turkeys
to
soon
as
the
and
at
disposition
of him
second
corn
it is
storm
growth
plenty of
coop
a
feed
for
marketing
and
lay
tom
lost
they have
they
sure
the
distance
a
from
chickens, dispose
or
it is well
if
gobbler shows
old, and
Feed
breeding stock,
best
We
month
when
The
If the
turks
first flock.
last
half grown,
are
If
a
in
never
one
dry,
common
a
cover
small
a
coop
short
while
have
to
to
off, or
a
go
can
We
never
enough
is
in
old turn
stop wherever
young,
day, always being
her
The
only
will
her
and
roup
practicable.
a
and
it rains.
counted.
were
will
month
a
dew
the
or
pests.
in their
are
ground she
when
kills young
turks
hen
hover
the turks
twice
feed
until
young,
are
they
out
are
is often
day
a
sure
turkey
for shelter
runs
be
turks
sjTup
food
always
animal
any
the
times
Always
stormy.
as
Three
weeks,
a
turks
spiced
soft
their
two
from
away
pleasant, when
now.
and
in
moved
and
quarters
is
them
is
with
chalk
twice
If the
milk.
drops of
few
a
some
little turks
mixture
Douglas
in sweet
or
powdered
coop
weather
water
pests.
meal, gravel and
greedily the
how
drops of
week
big, gray
a
top
on
chopper, buy weekly
see
few
a
you
find
not
creases
with
swarming
water, bone
and
and
deep
clean
it up,
cut
head, and
over
the
will examine
large gray-
the
see
the
need
little turks
the
turkey all
will find it
you
top of
the
deep in
if you
wing,
scarcely
can
six-weeks-old
louse, when,
of the
You
lice.
are
private
obtained
houses
by
and
124
TURKEY
a
turkey all my
own,
A
kind
gave
quite
neighbor
little
a
raiser.
it
raise
to
I breed
for that
from
I
wander
do
she
stock,
own
my
It is turkey
hatch
eggs
often
old
and
around,
throw
in winter.
so
there
no
sometimes
her
that
to
hen
does
nest
in the
a
If
sometimes
the
eggs,
if shut
early
to
one
two
really care
this
case
putting
the
I come
to
the
I break
surplus
set
them
set
rains
and
I
latter,as their habit
them,
and
under
prefer
is so
different
pared,
pre-
and
are
let
very
or
hatch.
her
so
"set,
the
neglect
flock, too
are
not
destructive.
lay again,
hens.
make
"
Sometimes
are
the
over
ing,
morn-
every
let them
to
If, as
place for the
chicken
not
on
shape
nests
moved,
and
lay
in
them, for early turkeys
up
I
half
her, and
dampness
the
coops
put shelter
early layers in
and
known.
un-
eggs
to
the
they
to
cluded
se-
place
a
put
opened
if
a
chilled.
reasonable
fail
the.se hens
eggs
is
sits, I
nest
they
very
to
a
loves
by, I follow
from
a
to
them
take
near
attempted,
in, that
or
night
chosen
abandon
over
for
not
"varmints"
is
desirable, as the early
In
at
up
inclined
moi.sture.
set
becoming
she
lect
se-
ground, and
or
twigs
wood
When
has
moving
will
are
wild
she
and
there
laid.
as
and
prepare
sit, the nest
to
stock
year
earth's
sides
and
the
the
sit, providing
their
on
best
my
same
dearly
the
the
to
man
turkey
a
deposit her
on
was
gobbler, I
a
less
to
carelessly inside
be closed
keep
purpose.
exposed
eggs
eggs
can
been
every
are
and
danger of the
seeks
gather the
I
hired
the
hen
to nest
t'leycome
occurs,
but
from
is well
nest
branches
leaves
When
is
a
barrels
place hay and
memory.
first year.
the
The
it
so
nature
if
better
place
and
they
as
strangers.
slyly make
can
hens
breed
not
spot for the nest,
where
have
flock
large
her
I
arm
more
a
when
time
his
my
turkey when
gobbler preferably
my
than
away
hen
young
the
three
and
from
a
from
only fine, healthy stock, saving
change
liens
fade
never
from
quite
purpose,
long.
me
under
Purchasing
managed
"will
girl,and
with
appeared
CULTURE.
When
mothers
little
ones
of
will
ESSAYS
PRIZE
thrive
not
with
The
range.
them
put little
their
the
die.
at
the
Unless
the
the
feathers
and
be
the
the
the
is one
which
freely and
Put
good.
is
let
affected.
The
the tender
flesh and
a
good
time
will not
get
gummy
needs
causes
the
Go
over
the
second
crop
; a
large
get
the
flock
a
flock
to
can
has
into
hens
some
on
her
a
to grace
which
hen
to be
lordly
nest
board
festal
I
know
disturbed
to
to
quiet, she will seldom
the
young
be
kill any
over
wing
blisters
then
later
her
but
hatching,
little
will
to
to
time
tended
meek
of
and
plump
my
eye
allow
never
ones.
call
time
come
keep
I
on.
a
quickly.
the
be
to
are
of
sure
her
comes
Be
feathers
the
very
gobblers and
and
and
coop.
make
I teach
the
remove
feathers,
it
completed
caring for the little creatures, which
kept growing
oil
can
alone
to
gone
and
for
any
of each
sticks
time
be
lice,
;
the
on
put in the
that
thirty days),
day for food,
every
as
wing,
suffering. Night is
are
second
mother
patient
(from twenty-eight
much,
the
remedy
parts oil
oil,as
pected.
sus-
found
feathers
unnecessary
too
on
the
machine-oil
of the
apply, just as they
to
down.
house
three
toms,
symp-
back
on
surest
to
kerosene
to
the
The
and
being
cause
usually be
kerosene
roots
these
quills
slender-necked
a
carefulnot
After
the
life away.
along the
little out
a
part
it in
of
tail
get thin
carefully turn
quills will
turkey lice
runs
root
the
than
the
longer than
out
great without
cover
faster
grow
understands
and
of, so I
get rid
to
dwindle,
ones
prove
turkey mothers.
many
charge
little
sapping
are
time
in
the
between
with
quills stick
one
loss may
which
in
which
the
wider
a
quickly and
harder
by hens
same
Catch
and
need
to
wings of little turkeys
bodies, and
feathers;
they begin
accumulate
own
liatched
ones
Sometimes
their
hens
125
CULTURE.
TUKKBY
after
of
lice
fatal than
more
On
If
them
kept
out
of
herself.
needs
The
mother
has
not
left the
but
the little
nest
ones
a
refreshing
while
are
at
dust
hatching.
first,while
bath
She
often,
is not
unsteady
as
she
confined,
on
their
126
legs.
need
I make
mother
The
to
little
dusts
and
fond
of
which
milk
and
warm
diarrhoea
and
must
give
or
wheat
In
makes
food,
is
fuss with
in
the
a
black
I have
thrive.
large
they
necessary
little bodies
of thrifty little
very
contentedly
Care
coop
at
If
day.
night
safe place to
rain
day.
in
the
Pilth
in
of
it is
up
the
changed
the
to
turkeys
and
or
a
has
become
in
run
the
a
to
a
lose
it may
young
moved
off the
stocky
they stay
to
get into
during
regards
night.
be
and
orchard, and
turkey hates
over
of
unless
is
little older
soon
a
keys
Tur-
legs get the
been
is
in the
strong
dew
an
tening.
fat-
lump
the
day she
it that
for
small
A
deadly foe
do
bursting
red, mixed
Coops."
every
but
after
and
it
food
if there
nearly all day.
night, change
a
Make
mother, but
keep her little family
is
rich, produce
are
meadow
unless
bread,
egg
each
turkeys; when
my
and
boiled
to
They
broad
grow
look
The
for
rainy days.
excepting
grass,
let it stand
closely confined.
too
order
shut
not
are
keys
tur-
good
occasionally. Many
water
coops
skimmed
make
tonic, give
a
in
range,
of all kinds
necessary,
wheat
pepper,
As
very
for
healthy flock,but
drinking
have
must
not
is not
are
sweet
to
for young
a
good remedy.
a
do
is curd
kind.
turkeys by keeping them
small
her
of any
meat
The
turkeys
against.
variety
as
diarrhoea,
to
copperas
guarded
food, both
Don't
tendency
be
pleasure.
is
foods, they
expensive
localities,whole
best
the
in
Milk
ones
young
hen
insects
soaked
poults.
the
They
the
It is unnecessary
wholesome,
grease
bread
for
sour.
and
and
it, with
upon
little
unseasoned.
cheese,
but
cakes
not
for
hatched
custard,
sweet
food
Stale
of all ages,
get
healthful
at
for
chooses.
while
sun,
gravel
thrive
is for newly
enjoy the
she
when
and
cottage
they get.
brood
her
jjicksgrass
most
it and
large, yet large enough
very
and
doze
cheapest and
like
nor
in with
get
ones
herself
made
high
very
together, which
nailed
triangle of boards
a
be
not
the
the
CULTURE.
TURKEY
it
Should
clean
turkey in
for
the
as
a
it
the
confine-
PRIZE
ESSAYS
I have
ment.
ON
always
kept
experienced raiser who
as
it is
plan
keep
to
When
box
a
the
and
hawks
as
well
I can,
is necessary
that
I
which
takes
The
caused
they
are
times
a
much
is
small
I
day.
diarrhoea.
wheat
corn,
The
As
and
soon
them,
It
finest turkeys
on
better
fresh
curd
is
it
to
hens
I
and
while
and
raised
ever
food
it
food, when
any
vents
pre-
fed
were
buckwheat.
good
stead
in-
feeding five
healthful
is
was
way.
even
way,
wild
so
larger. While
grow
buckwheat
buckwheat
they show
as
providing
to make
the
to the
it
a
have
turkeys
with
off in the
and
Cracked
they have
when
often
offer,returning
themselves
them
I
have
something
A
turkey
cool
for
them.
10
should
to
be
They
waiting
for
11
or
I
them
as
feed
at
a
to
place
when
5 p.
m.
to
m.
are
a
soon
might
and
fresh
re-
milk
or
rest
to
offer
home.
get
shutting
when
I
point
come
to
a
breakfast,
skim
sweet
it
make
tions
genera-
anything
a.
buttermilk,
encourage
always
upon.
to
them
providing
them,
crickets
regards home
It is well
night, which
with
to
before
climb
about
which
in
in which
tree
without
morning
encourage
accordingly introduce
roosted
cleats to
to roost, I
of fair weather
large maple
preferring grasshoppers and
whatever
I
departure.
new
board
narrow
desire
a
gives promise
turkey tree,
of
eat.
great
short.
them
diet is excellent
they
as
than
more
through strange
curd
a
whereabouts
large.
grown
up
latter is the
"
danger
is
no
had
stone
trouble, but
The
runs
exclusively
I have
blood
required
The
their
coops.
a
there
good
a
the
near
doors
out
me
prefer whole
curd
of
considerable
little goes
a
and
track
it is
fly over
to
new
Diet.
supply of
almost
night
away,
keep
me
gobbler.
Turkey
lasts, but
I think
at
good health.
by introducing
of the
my
farther
foxes.
for my
they have
caused
set
trap
ground,
prefers the
turkeys get large enough
and
as
floors
An
ground.
the
on
lu-althful.
skunk
wall, they will wander
from
tried
137
CULTURE.
comps
my
has
natural
more
TURKEY
something
them
small,
up
as
to
at
after'
128
TURKEY
that
time
them
to
they get
expect
accord.
own
hearty
bugs, but
if
it
offer
to
first
for the
be
there
are
plenty of
When
they rush
time,
only buckwheat,
all
up
along the line,
and
universal
a
and
of which
they
flock goes
to roost
be
can
they
usually
are
set
the
ers
moth-
the
stuff
fond.
After
the
little
trouble
so
very
be
tion
examina-
touch
to
always
ing
See-
will
fact that
induced
afterwards
are
of curd.
"quit"
of the
wheat
buck-
confiding
a
only after careful
thoughtful observation
eating, that they
are
it is
very
them
get
to
in
food
of
cry
a
feeding
around
they have, expecting the familiar
way
their
not
thing,
reward.
a
of
come
need
supper
need
teaches
This
soon
just for the principle of the
it is best
home,
will
they
large, the
they don't
as
one,
and
supper,
work.
it is slow
sleepy
so
When
CULTURE.
til
un-
marketing.
I
suffer very
foxes
with
sometimes
looseness.
an
make
occasional
an
for
time
sad
feed
Clear
clear
meal.
They
should
I fatten
of buckwheat
to
Indian
them
for
fine
corn
and
be
meal
I do
have
with
good
does
have
them
the
at
any
it makes
bad
effect of
assist the
to
within
by
Besides
barley.
barley meal
bowel
food
potatoes
gravel
water
pure
corn,
counteract
boiled
not
whole
on
harmful
a
and
reach.
gestive
di-
Some
Xorfolk, the great English county
not.
turkeys, fattens
much
is
provided with
and
up;
sickness, but hawks
havoc.
turkeys, but mixed
process,
shut
from
loss
appetizing change and
the
as
little
filling a
that,
they will eat,
as
meals
two
with
with
trough
a
day of
gravel, etc., is
given.
FowLS
WELL-DRESSED
be
may
with
profit:
they
to
be killed.
liable
to
are
sour
finer-fiavored
other
Btcst."
observed
morning
are
PAY
way.
if
and
Some
dry picked.
left
whiter
markets
As
in.
I
Do
Full
of
than
fowls
look
in the
when
scalded
my
the
crops
Bleeding
demand
following rules
feed
not
meat
dispose
The
bad
and
neck
ces
produ-
killed
in any
birds, and
turkeys
the
to
ers
oth-
customers.
PEIZE
I
ESSAYS
dry pick them,
scalded
body is yet
the
skin;
and
tie the
sides when
then
I
have
to the
the
presents
after
finest for
lie
off
may
Many
be
like its
in
some
burden-
seem
will
so
as
healthy flock
a
success
it
morning,
appearance.
raising
flock is
essary,
nec-
at the
snugly
until
on
or
to
easy
predecessor
looks, actions
breeding
and
the
in
instance,
those
in
bronze
than
be red.
be selected
by
long leg
eight hens
I would
to
feeding.
can
are
and
The
the
range
are
the
them
never,
is
a
9
when
bird
will
allowed
apparently, get
are
ing
weighincreases
tom
in
not
legs.
the
may
large foot
From
large,
five to
farm.
to raise turkeys
undertakes
easily be
can
fowl, and
too
tom
a
A
second
day be
one
him.
average
voracious
perfectly familiarized, they
For
color of
toms
young
of his
This
tame.
turkey
January.
light weight,
of
who
person
early
as
eight months, frequently
length
sufficient for the
enjoin
keep
and
that
indicate
if sufficient food
first
poor
the size and
done
ing
by weight, choos-
The
forty pounds
weighing thirty-fiveor
are
Select
pounds.
twenty
birds
first of
largest and
color, noting also the
weight after the
If the
be
may
the
as
the
variety, select
should
less
not
greatly
Bronze
of uniform
legs, which
This
late
as
COUNTY.
matured, select
are
purposes.
or
BOYLE
TABKINGTON,
turkeys
Thanksgiving,
turkey
wings
METHODS.
KNOX
the
When
and
the
cut
der
ten-
larger incision than
indistinguishable from
ELIZABETH
year.
the
tear
required.
care
the
and
price than
bleeding and
is
to
necessary
insuring
acts
not
better
KENTUCKY
as
bird
head
as
especially as each
be
the
a
much
a
better
a
they will
so
mentioned
little
remember,
to
wings
beginner, but
two, these
as
making
cold, leaving the
the neck
things
command
pin feathers
without
129
CULTURE.
being careful
all
Draw,
TURKEY
quickly, while
warm,
remove
neatly.
they
as
Pick
ones.
ON
much
apt
to
done
by
the
grown
to eat.
When
wander
far
in
130
TURKEY
of nests, which
search
turning
barrel
a
the-way
that
If the
man.
In
better.
barrel, which
if
to
barrel
a
a
she
week
their
turkey
off
too
long.
I
the
selected
raising, I would
I could
or
be
sit
be
this
turkey
time
always
When
off and
the
in
cover
sixty turkeys
for the
turkey
I
mother;
this renders
pluck the
should
be
The
up.
prevents
the
No
best
bowel
two
hens;
not
food
added
to the
for
so
away
feed
fed
is
trouble
and
young
feed
apt
to
from
be
hen
she
will
six
or
what
the
curd, made
which
fed
is
for
thickened
turkeys.
time
to
A
they will
It
so
or
each
fence.
tall
times
a
day.
Care
young
turkeys
from
milk.
to
first six
wich
three
little
time.
of
a
the
keys.
tur-
weeks.
or
four
meal
can
This
young
pepper
Corn
not
her
rears
over
fatal
or
is natural
wing
a
fly
to
crushes
Fifty
nes^s
from
five
often
stray.
when
feathers
be
grain should
is fine
can
turkeys
young
placed with
give only
pint of milk, boiled
the
removed.
thrj^m unable
turkeys should
pick
and
They
not
long
Young
to
nest
tirst week
hand.
are
are
young.
taken
turkey
the
to
they
wander
to
at
nally
origi-
of
years
The
if
be
and
company,
they had
basket.
time
may
moved
After
quite tame,
be
the
to
pleased with
eggs
hatch, take
to
warm
at this
young
part
a
should
Care
be
it for the
upon
they become
begin
eggs
trust
the
immediately.
return
the
if
as
to
her
well
eighteen
willing
lifted off for food, which
almost
well
as
feed.
may
sit
each
manner.
as
are
After
the
secure
above
of
time
; drive
turkey
the
they
spot.
not
After
two.
that
and
quarters,
new
unless
find
after
the
to
front
and
of
eye
much
short
a
returns
A
turkey
allowed
in
off
come
the
if treated
nest
to
The
so
be
for
away
that
stays
two
or
taken
out-of-
the
egg,
large board
a
turkey
the
be taken
nest
be
an
by
some
from
should
turkey
Secure
may
day, allowing
should
the
this barrel
eggs.
hidden
is
nest
provided with
is
nest
twenty
upon
her
in
it
brush.
it with
covering
for them
provided
be
to
side, setting
the
and
to think
loves
ought
upon
corner,
CULTURE.
A
eggs,
may
be
bread
132
TUfeKEY
or
maybe
few
a
litcle,if
but
old, they need
CULTURE.
before
weeks
marketing.
Early in the spring, before
clean
lay, I put plenty of
hidden
at
distance
some
place that
any
and
secludeu
from
same
for her
cosy
hatchings under
if not
allowed
taking
will lay two
the
than
hen
ready
are
under
have
the
or
tliey will devour
in
dry,
up
an
roomy
the
other
hour
longer than
thrive
much
feed
and
together, with
as
wheat
are
if
grow
it.
soon
need
seem
to
If
in
a
few
shut
tance
dis-
shut
large
and
will
keys
Tur-
die.
or
run
every
a
at
weather.
stormy
keep them
at
days
Better
hundreds
up;
by confinement
year
hard-boiled
older, add
scraps
bread,
corn
they
plenty
are
little
outgrow
of
of meat,
healthy
care.
their
clean
and
If
your
a
bodies, they
good
are
meal,
potatoes,
onions, etc.,
and
little
curds.
corn
boiled
water,
have
mixed
eggs
in it, and
ginger
or
bread,
soaked
turkeys
young
confined, cabbage, chopped
are
but
my
screenings,
essential,and
have
to
little pepper
they
they
by running
must
possible, and
as
a
wheat
or
and
destroyed
feed
dry
as
as
in cold
runners,
are
first,I
Then,
better
place them
keep them
not
lice,
feeding.
improper
squeezed
hens
the
front,
in
do
necessary,
all than
at
turkeys
At
and
the
the
to
them
of young
chickens, but
better, except
belong
yard
with
kill
to
each
lard
Then
turkeys.
young
by
turkeys and
with
thigh,
of
eggs
When
hen.
young
grease
to
one
tempers
each
their
first
of
hatchings
from
eggs
the
get
can
not
are
put
try their
nest, I
coops,
from
they will follow
not
the
I
three
or
inside
and
wings
warm,
the
I
as
soon
hatched
leave
to
of
hens
my
nest.
seldom
I
nest
one
hens
common
they
sit ; but
to
more
as
or
judge sufficiently
to
and
to
hens,
common
sit,as turkey hens
apt
purpose,
distance
great
a
will be
bushes,
of
clumps
under
yard; also
and
henhouse
to
and
barrels
and
in boxes
the
Turkey
Mrs.
to stray to
apt
about
begin
turkey hens
the
straw
and
in
corners
winter,
in
feeding, except
any,
milk
range,
if
I
they
turkeys' wings
not
healthy.
PRIZE
Look
ESSAYS
for the
out
OS
TURKEY
which
cause,
is
133
CULTURE.
generally lice and
f(io
row
nar-
range.
Do
give young
not
heavy, if
too
you
Cochins
Buff
are
them, and
if ehe
sealed; he
may
These
and
live for
forager, scratcher
as
that
in coop
I
or
the
let at
least
I
mothers
the
other
let the
are
hen
I
to
cept,
ex-
for
knew
great
foot
a
ranger,
is
but
one,
around
of
out
on
again
up
tect
pro-
of
one
as
lively
a
better
large
a
in
her
is
end.
mother,
hen
turn
breath
in
them
will
turkeys
laid their second
have
twelve
not
if
as
When
turkey and
the
eggs
I
the
set
first
few, I give them
a
danger
of
becoming
turkeys lay
rest of the
and
her
shut
or
eggs,
too
go
As
up.
stale
to
is
To
soon
ready
;
hen, if
common
a
out
thighs.
turkey that
to
are
der
un-
hens, greasing
of
inside
eggs,
sixteen
poults
of the
and
wings
to
the
one
hatchings,
fourteen
or
put fourteen
hens.
give hens'
enough
hatch, and
to
sitting when
they
ready.
raised
I have
turkey hen
weeks).
with
put
large
very
have
common
all to the
only have
are
a
fate
jarovide for and
to
of
awkward
ever
active, a
will
fourteen, and
under
I have
they
I
a
one
in the
best
that
that
his
die
medium-sized
or
the
of
one
couple of
the
if I
him
must
do, he is
to
apt
turkey hens
give them
as
life with
is the
happens
outdoors
crush
than
more
a
all
his
and
pen.
When
never
if she
than
to
apt
so
fighter;
small-
has
heavy,
on
are
Brown
only heavy, but
not
light and
is not
mother
turkey
be
she
Any
ever.
hen
and
that
and
big foot
Leghorn
is
chicks, and
which
them,
of
turkey hen,
She
The
one.
time, but
are
the
turkeys.
hor
a
Brown
course,
her
chance
sets
hens
common
light
a
poor
once
The
stupid.
young
a
to
lazy, lousy
so
large hens
very
of
get
c;m
turkey has
young
turkeys
a
I
and
gave
a
a
flock of
hen
them
good-sized yard
(two
a
in
forty-two
common
very
young
hens
large, dry
front.
After
turkeys with
a
couple
of
for
coop
they
a
to
were
roost
a
in,
fe^
134
CULTUEE.
TURKEY
weeks
old I could
once
day,
a
; and
time
for
not
get
night,
at
field and
over
I did
as
had
they
soon
chance
a
out
of the
hen
away
from
the
house, and
and
brood
much
night;
ranging
;
can
watch
get
along splendidly.
off the
eat
the
feed; but
but
will
circle
her
hen
and
to
she
about
young
much
eat
If you
a
and
mothers.
good plan
to
with
together they
it;
it is
to
One
the
turks
do
snow
of
lice
but
when
not
under
and
eggs
in it.
the
weather
the
help
to
hen;
while
away
She
doesn't
get
the
on
No
the
soon
by
up
eighteen
Although
was
so
the
I
incubator
my
the
turkey
eggs
have
was
and
up,
and
I let
so
avoid
can
in
tor
incuba-
an
hens
turkey
or
hatched.
lay
to
the
talk
(one
kept
had
also
were
about
of
had
so
live
my
and
been
ing,
lay-
sitting.
they would
eggs
eggs
early, while
very
hens
teared
turkey
turkey
cold
time
if you
even
until
old ;
hand,
as
would
safest
possible. Xever
as
jou
chickens
the
and
young
as
turkey
young
are
is
hatchers
as
turkeys and
Trees
ground;
eggs
turkey hens, it
always.
soon
as
of them
put the
eighteen, when
hens
hens
turkeys began
my
one
flred
they
the
nurse,
common
hatch
Xever
kept eighteen turkey
then
her
more
turkeys,
turkeys
still
was
but
and
few
helped, unless
put them
spring
about
come
eating.
or
the trees
to
job.
be
can
the
and
one,
fairly take
other
get them.
will
young
hard
a
the
a
use
take
ones
raise
to
if it
hens
chase
roosting places for
young
they
touch
and
them,
run
try
will not
Beware
thrive
my
if
half-dozen
a
can
best
hens
are
mothers
two
than
will
turkey
house,
the
near
better
and
kept strong
are
animals, while
The
the
takes
herself.
have
still
like weeds, and
brings the turkey
and, roosting
of the
rest
hen
a
aged
they for-
turkey hen
they
so
protect the brood
and
close, after
grew
The
the
to wild
exposed
so
time
flock.
at
not
heads
They
pasture.
than
more
feeding, except what
no
three
healthy by free
them
them
shut
not
1 lost but
home
feed
to
I
spoil,
tion),
inven-
own
some
laid
long, the
hens'
while
whole
poults chipping
PRIZE
but
away,
live
tlireo died
left ;
ones
little turks
put them
that
in
kitchen
in
wanted
to
and
had
the
time.
If
of
had
I
I
hard
a
turkey hen
keep
hide
if she
the
is
of
things
an
old
there
into
the
drive
her
often
the
out
and
so
hen
the
came,
as
I
was
died,
some
of them
I
for
knew,
ever
to
as
to
I prefer
a
covered
back
and
a
then
shut
go
the
boards
or
her
back
in
on
be
not
sitting in
nest
of
vey,
con-
it, and
her
up
night
at
close
and
nights, then
and
feed
if
nest
pearance
ap; but
turkey
to
go
to
large, close, roomy
shut
I
yard, where
case), and
fence
change the
away
turkey hens
my
I then
the
brush
don't
scare
low
a
place
being handled, she will
couple of days
onto
but
pisture
or
exposed
any
with
nest
yard in front
hen.
field
a
it, make
crows;
much
When
and
for
eat
the
used
covered
to it eggs
her
they
turkeys, and
in
or
reach
locality,I make
small
a
best
by
nest
house,
cover
from
eggs
undesirable
with
I was,
some,
the
long
a
get rid of them.
kept four
to raise
her
can
hogs, and
easily disturbed.
an
the
crows
or
the
out
m.akes
from
hogs
for
weather
not
I
and
weather
warm
got
were
moderating,
other.
any
away
where
they
things
sulphur
warm
cat
ter
bet-
in that
young
puny
be where
them.
(by hand)
way
the
were
when
must
to
would
you
with
till
A
of
mothers, and
almost
fence,
they
nine
them
I could
and
had
turkeys all took cold
young
warm
I
squeaking
all
they
they knew.
only raised
for
but
them
think
that
last,the weather
treated
door
largest, liveliest
Well,
when
; the
I
the
to
and
a
At
fifteen
stove, together with
and
peeping
run.
only had
cold
so
them.
better; but
about
I
the
was
with
them,
done
only mother
If
It
a
kept
and
about
were
135
CULTTTRE.
by the kitchen
was
and
most
the
it is
shell
saw.
throats.
seemed
years,
the
in the woodshed
they hung
They
TURKEY
hatched
out
get
have
would
ON
couple of weeks,
a
sore
saved
they
ever
there
put them
to
I
in
large box
a
belii've
but
but
sixty chicks
about
I
ESSAYS
and
necessary
again.
the
She
eggs,
water
let
and
her
her, then
(which
will
keep
is not
soon
before
come
the
136
is up
time
lier go
are
are
worse
to
on
the
four
saves
or
does.
succeed
of
will
you
; but
her
in
if you
let the
THE
NEW
often
she
If
strictlyto
attend
plenty of experience, and
have
soon
begin
employments.
and
work
pick
alert
once
which
range,
all other
your
they
if
dozen,
a
changes
interest
an
business,
five out
will
lively and
be
to
even,
together,
more,
another
one,
has
raising is like
Turkey
feel
you
She
she
brood, unless
a
chasing
skip.
and
let
and
eggs,
hawks,
than
often
and
two,
is
turkey
steal the
will
turkeys
young
less than
old
one
young
if she
catch
and
yard
and
nest
They
great pest.
a
the
botli
oiaen
likes.
she
as
is seldom
while
a
up
come
Crows
and
leave
can
you
and
there
as
CULTURE.
TURKEY
take
business
itself,you
of
care
will
will fail.
MRS.
have
Why
hardy?
of
live.
When
away
the
breed.
Do
out
than
have
we
select
hens
should
not
broad
too
or
be
may
fattening food
I
your
always
than
stock
in
liked
the
others.
to
in winter.
young
good form
wild
the
state
healthy
birds
vigorous
strong,
!
drive
Follow
nature.
Pick
Thanksgiving.
at
be
even
nature
be,
to
old; but
years
old.
year
precise
more
should
we
the
He
gobbler
should
thick, strong legs. From
allowed
privilege of picking
put
have
survival
turkeys kill and
must
one
and
gobbler.
one
Wheat,
rye
for
the
Narragansetts,
as
Do
oats, milk
wheat
or
in
the
As
season.
being
a
so
have
they
only the
success
turkeys
we
In
young;
believing
than
more
of
naturally
state
selection
only
three,
even
heavy, and
five hens
as
for
reason
be
and
finest
hens, and
two,
die
stronger
secret
sell your
domestic
overlooked.
that
so
lies the
best
your
natural
the
weaker,
not
of
turkeys
grown,
Here
the
been
weak, delicate
the
to
laws
The
fittest,have
the
in
because
Simply
deteriorated.
difficultyin raising birds
such
we
COUNTy.
UNION
WILLIAMS,
S.
SYSTEM.
.JERSEY
be
three
feed
not
and
the
field,will
to
hardier
breed,
breed
PRIZE
Faults
in two
in tho
throe
or
ON
TL'UKEY
show
parentage
weeks,
or
nicely. The
to grow
Their
ESSAYS
as
chicks
do
they
They
stand
grow
though,
birth.
them
through
earth
could
But
There
the
have
have
life
enough
them,
have
you
the
rules
out-of-the-way
boards
nor
likes to tread
well
pile
to
places. You
for their
do
not
are
to
sight.
twenty-five
them.
hatched.
are
she
early
an
to
hen
not
the
flourish.
each
egg
place when
not
the
in
the
though
al-
April.
until
eighteen
are
eggs
she
as
can
molested,
un-
cover,
given, she will destroy
extra
poultry
also
under
eggs
when
undesirable
the
She
ing
nest-
in
an
is
it
so
lay in March,
to
If
an
and
key
tur-
desirable
turkey's brood
makes
cowyards
nest,
the
the
set
to
and
hen
put
perhaps
are
more
boxes
both
mother,
runs,
leaves
where
thv,m
at
age.
the
throw
If
A
may
many
as
above.
sticks
leaves
visit
hatching.
them
fowl
frequents
When
and
A
turkeys do
young
too
add
you
on
or
few
a
carry
birds, and
usually lays from
hen
it is best
hens, and
to
given
these
begin
or
only lay
fifteen.
Therefore
fowl
as
will
is about
the
before
eggs
she
which
hens
Most
is removed,
egg
since
medicine
her
to
throw
lay in February,
some
If the
then
dying
few
a
carelessly about
and
turkeys
in
path
hay,
not, and
days,
shrubbery.
weedy
or
three
barrels
some
some
then
nest
the
time.
availed.
care
stand
should
old
or
No
usual.
of the
them
keeping
roll
intricate
an
some
nest,
in
begin
tottering,
satisfactory parent
among
brush
up
or
been
any
places, or
fashion,
tent
two
they
Well, then, late in February,
into
much
sun
in
young
as
and
feathering-out stage.
saved
suppose
followed
not
was
bright
uncertain
die
in the
wing feathers
seem
the
and
strictly speaking,
their
have
weak
very
not
are
in
sleeping
result
the
as
wings droop, their steps
and
their
soon
137
CULTURE.
her
water.
She
exhaust
your
turkey begins
some
will
thus
corn
or
become
to
hatch,
wheat, and
accustomed
patiencelater, by hiding
morning,
every
go
see
to
herself
that
she
has
you,
and
not
and
brctiil
138
TURKEY
from
your
When
gaze.
turkeys
About
twenty-four hours
wi!l leave
You
mother
twice
of
prepare
wander
for the
young,
far.
Keep
otherwise
do not
bread
eggs,
by baking
meal,
must
to that
in
you
would
way,
good
plan
and
be
such
fowl
will
to
is
in
be
a
cliick
food,
with
always
so
dry
although
the
a
escape
guard.
to
as
signs of
with
and
part
one
Add
crumbs,
This
milk.
sour
to
water.
a
wide
roup,
little
or
keep
from
If
only
ing.
wanderfrom
treat
Diarrhoea
corn
over
The
separate
of these
it
cure,
shelter, it
possible.
turkey hatched
Green
comes
pepper.
other
place, and
roup.
both
than
be
range.
high ground
a
tle
lit-
a
it sliould
better
on
shed
a
is not
warm,
usually
on
up
to
of boiled
or
has
is
so
will not
turkeys. It usually
brood
to fei^l
she
in milk.
access
that
eat
dry in
sweet
get,
the
trouble
meal,
soaked
order,
young
under
not
meals
this
prevention
cljicks show
put
conditions
to
this
eases,
in
ter
Af-
localities,but
corn
either
can
the
them
fatal disease, and
is better
be
plenty of
best, but
flock, and
a
should
poultry
as
drive
to
drive
If any
would
Feed
or
will
middlings.
or
meal.
has,
and
give
could
in
shorts
the
daily bill of fare,
a
part
one
noon
after-
feed
to
sure
few
a
tle
lit-
way.
full crop,
a
the
the
In
much
so
ing.
morn-
fine, which
undesirable
with
dangerous
weather,
night,
having
of
trouble
never
is very
wet
a
hen
at
prepare
mixed
the
she
been
pot cheese, is always
or
Lice
is
be
then
as
curd,
crust, which
dough
be
After
little bone
a
always
her.
parts wheat
two
the
Koup
and
food, but
chopped
from
bread, made
a
except
seen
her
restrain
crumbs
salt and
Curd,
and
early in the
lazy, wondering
a
have
you
impatient !
hatched, the
is
one
probability.
day, and
each
food
the
so
in
at
first
this
egg
plenty of grain,
with
much
all
in
be
don't
accustomed
boiled
a
the
does
her
nothing,
turkeys will pick
this go
oat
in
throw
but
out,
She
twenty-eight days, the
set
after
nest.
again, with
go
little
the
will eat
ones
mostly
are
may
has
she
young
hen
CULTURE.
as
the
you
is another
under
proper
diseases, yet it
usually
causes
the
140
firm
stand
legs, that
teristics
of
"Bronze
gobbler,"
make
the
fear
whenever
his
your
breeding
toward
success.
start
The
the
of the
rest
sooner
two
word
of caution
birds
of the
Provide
April
of your
own
eye
on
and
nest
and
hen, and
I
a
from
keep the
young
cold
wet.
quiet bird,
set
and
a
giving
that
the
your
twelve
set
one
few
a
egg
from
china
or
eggs
setting, which
always
and
the
my
to
of
the
early
is from
intend
using
that
will attend
nest
is
eggs.
dry
and
warm
clam
or
after
other,
an-
keep
your
the
key
tur-
its place for
have
you
eleven, for
hens,
when
a
as
the
you
a
can
weather
hen, select
a
is
good,
faithfullyto business;
gets
See
mixture
turkey.
a
If you
of
have
day until
to
feed
her
after
nine
will be
secluded
let
in
get
then
some
to
under
ones
a
long
nest, but
every
better
the
to
egg
confined
her
and
hen's
birds
days, until she
one,
nest
fifteen for
a
be
the
once
or
not
best
Just
and
a
oyster
away
It is
egg.
selection
take
Turn
for
enough
lay her
it, leaving
egg.
broken
morning
in
mixture
buckwheat,
It will
; stir
salt.
afternoon, give
water.
some
middlings,
thing
this
order
feed, hot
meal
corn
the
of
In
and
little
overdo
plenty of
that
in the
way
leaves
a
or
lected
se-
good, fair
a
fall.
meal
and
the
with
thus
morning
of
turkeys, will steal
there
her
their
quarts
In
good, clean
first of
her
Three
to
laying in the spring,
one
to
Don't
made
in the
corn
scraps
birds.
three.
shells, and
place,
with
barley, whe;it,
grain, either
before
hens, for
here:
ten
birds
young
meat
fat.
too
for
enough
her
hens
middlings
and
Depper
a
your
your
parts
some
the
start
potatoes, mixed
about
your
have
your
this, give
mashed
you
can
you
larger will be
do
birds,
him
quake
Having
is heard.
strut
lordly
in
barnyard
of the
occupants
warlike-
enough
strength
and
life
pure-bred
a
well-formed,
fine, large,
a
with
them
Mate
bird.
charac
general
the
apart, and
well
strong
a
looking bird, with
to
CULTURE.
TUEKET
settled
that
and
she
down
is free
also
free
to
from
from
let
work,
lice,
ver-
PRIZE
min.
Watch
E"SAYS
the hen
incubation, and
within
water
life.
the
Do
to take
she
will
shells
eggs
hen
nest
them
the
back
four
this
do
the
to
weeks, the
shells,eager
at
nest, and
off
go
about
the
and
stay off the
not
usually
break
to
food
plenty of
the
In
eating.
of the
out
will
then
disturb
not
has
plan
turkeys will begin
upon
hen
she
after
immediately
young
take
and
the
that
so
good
a
morning,
every
nest
reach,
closelyduring the period of
eggs
that
see
It is
long.
too
and
141
CULTURE.
TURKEY
ON
to enter
time, except
that
to
quietly
as
as
possible.
Let
the
at least
well, then
the
if
want
turkeys get
milk
will
separate from
curd
turkeys
the
is
twice
stiff
batter, put in
in
light. Bake
want
it is
and
to
feed
your
a
the
it will
water
do
you
Keep
before
thrive.
means
a
After
the
curd
some
dish; when
hot, the
the
pour
Mix
will
When
about
milk
sour
and
put
a
or
enough
feed
bread
the
curd
when
the
to
with
little pepper
a
week
old, mix
buttermilk,
soda
to make
to
a
it
Then,
when
the
bread
until
equal parts of the
curd,
until
to
it up
do), and
it with
off, and
whey
little soaked
a
done.
little of
a
see
plenty of milk,
them
that
under
tin
oven
good
and
by putting
little salt and
mix
drops of
nicely, make
eat
turkeys, soak
quite soft, then
themselves.
fresh
day.
a
few
is made
(bolted) with
meal
corn
white
or
water.
This
whey;
hours.
two
every
it, about
some
the
a
to
sufficientlycool, crumble
it (either brown
in
in
stove
of pure
a
lice, and
birds
can
milk.
sour
sour
on
they
so
before
little bread
a
top of the head
away
your
this
a
finger in the mixture
your
on
will keep
you
from
dip
dish
to
in
Place
or
egg,
shallow
a
turkey
young
This
wing.
for them
the
and
for
place them
location.
sunny
hard-boiled
both,
or
mix
;
good deal,
young
a
tablespoonful of butter, add
a
touch
each
in
undisturbed
nest
hatching, then
chopped,
in milk,
in the
stay
after
coop
fine
kerosene
and
roomy
some
soaked
Melt
fellows
thirty hours
nice, dry,
them
little
little
the
sweet
constantly.
or
Gather
fellows
sour,
a
and
you
stuff
good
lot of fresh
142
TURKEY
chickweed,
if you
or
clover
will answer;
^Vhen
the
the
in
days
fond
of, but
turn
them
cannot
for
be
the
sure
out,
as
they
which
grasshoppers,
is all off the
dew
a
run
greedily
are
before
grass
wetting is generally fatal
a
for
out
fine, let them
of
milk.
it in their
mix
fine and
and
warm
bunches
that, tender
get
it up
cut
are
fields
CULTURE.
you
the
to
der
ten-
birds.
At
six
the
on
feed
weeks
head
and
them
little bone
in
free
range
much
as
You
them
bread, and
much
do
at this
their
assistance
any
when
shut
mash
wheat,
or
very
Feed
up.
of
the
prove
in
this
with
a
not
a
pure
start
or
small
together.
I will
flock
they
The
grew
ever
the
even-sized
of
hen.
common
bred.
of
lot I
ever
can
eat
at
clear
of
course
They
all
not
roam
faster
than
this
time,
corn
meal
grain, barley,
treatment
I
set
eleven
from
eleven
a
^it
were
turkey
from
the
of disease
turkeys;
and
rience
expe-
good stock,
hatched, and
not
scribed
pre-
little of my
a
were
and
saw,
they
prefer the mixture.
turkeys.
fast,
those
much
I do
contented
will
fat
just give
eggs
very
troubled
the
fed
as
feed
find
more
plenty of
I
wet,
you
I
them.
or
them
all,give
Christmas.
potatoes,
good, and
value
essay,
lameness
most
all
they
months
or
well
on
all
and
is
milk
when
vary
can
you
until
fatten
take
them
meal
corn
peas,
under
and
speak of,
to
vent
pre-
three
liberty, for they will be
at
imprisoned, and
with
but
I
turkeys when
and
time
Thanksgiving
at
birds
getting them
still avoid
sailing from
market,
when
mixed
eggs
clear
my
when
To
but
age,
that
above
good food;
any
a
find
grain when
whole
some
food, mix
get older,
this
better
a
birds
young
for
will
you
have
about
"
the
to the
time, and
bread
growth.
for the
than
As
their
red
it is called,
as
this
possible, as it prevents
confine
not
At
with
variety of
a
wheat.
the
show
to
red,"
with
food, giving
and
the
connection
leg weakness.
old,
they begin
neck, "shooting
meal
it will afford
their
when
little cracked
a
weeks,
some
of age,
th ay
the
or
were
admira-
PRIZE
of all who
tion
taken
were
could
I
ESSAYS
the
one-half
At
pounds each, and
of them
for $11.50.
THE
Of
"Go
FAMOUS
hite
as
thou
and
there
in 1892.
and
numbei-,
Island.
in
hens;
22
this season,
and
the
on
only
in
having
gobbler, by
his flock.
means
found
He
or
many
had
of which
he
had
keys
tur-
he
but
of
Connecticut
had
to
an
tle
lit-
very
gained
turkeys,
hardiness
the
in
as
fine
very
a
careful
more
young
having
to
increased
been
hens,
1888
requirements
from
placed
where
were
the
best
of
of
selecting
no
trees
all.
He
the
second
in
way.
The
thirty-five pounds
hens
breeders.
two
or
They
and
three
roost
and
orchard, did
died.
soon
but
a
is
kept in
from
seasons,
out
in
should
two
old
hens
being
the
to
die
thirty
from
kept
trees
of grass,
gobbler is
are
the
other
twenty
One
one
gobblers weigh
usually
the
light growth
case
thrive;
dryest pastures,
gobblers.
two
the
near
not
On
usually winters
and
turkeys
kept
were
highest and
the
on
sufficient,but
any
and
heads
tnat
the
in
trees
swelled
there
turkeys
young
hand, those
the
has
success
procured
the
thirty-flvehen
'
of the
since
that
under
house
fail
he
to
30
35
time, owing
that
his present
from
300
Previous
from
340
1890,
over
any
turkeys from
225
in
has
management,
has
He
raised
since
largest
blood.
new
did
but
understanding
to
as
his
date, he
maturity.
to
credits
He
clearer
well
at this
the
were
turkeys than
in 1892, 425
hens;
the
turkeys
800
more
he
of
one
raises
hens;
28
been
Over
Tucker
1888
36
success,
improvement
a
from
way
average
loss.
In
1889, 306 from
in 1891, 322
hens;
George
I sold five
SYSTEM.
has
sections.
and
likewise."
Island
probably produces
in Rhode
one
do
as
Qfteen
butter.
as
they
much
as
to
ISLAND
Prudence
years
eleven
fat
were
leading turkey-producing
raised
from
RHODE
time, when
just about
were
dressed
lii
CULTURE.
Christinas
block, they
they
carry;
TURKEY
them.
saw
to
OK
seasons,
year
the
or
to
and
surest
through,
144
and
but
few
nests
are
walls
and
fences
cut
against
somA
nests, although
or
and
up
far
too
one
the
induced
this, a
in which
nest
she has
after
of the
laid
day,
in the
nest
being chilled, and
their
They
kept in
are
lirevent their
a
hen
stays
oldest
two
days
shaped,
to
eggs
one
upon
fed while
looked
the
that
so
left
not
are
they will
roll out,
or
deep
so
another.
The
da;ly,
to
to
as
turkeys
sitting. Those
after
be
not
occupying
that
see
as
do
to
seem
nests
they
of
nests
them
cause
tings,
sit-
When
seventeen
flat
so
to
two
known.
The
nest.
to prevent
the
by her during the
laid
eggs
nest.
bottom
holds
be
nights,
the
in
in the
oats
are
get them.
not
may
may
eggs
the
near
panful
age
given her; the
are
few
two
eat
gathered daily,
Each
for
nest
remainder
crows
across
rats
a
dated, that their
on
eggs
having
pans,
lay is,
house, they
the
are
that
rolling about.
is
and
from
Eggs
used.
are
eggs
prevent
to
the
by strings stretched
away
broken
To
for the
up
When
far
are
is
nest
commenced
shut
egg,
intruders.
out
that
nests
frightened
Glass
keep
her
location,
nest.
same
turkey has
a
deposited
to
the
their
another.
the
in
lay
leaves
of
one
swampy
a
when
choose
to
several
Sometimes
unless
chosen,
is
away,
hen
out
-persistin seeking
is usually allowed
This
own.
by laying
or
possession of these
turkeys readily take
The
straw.
by the
placed
is
them
In
walls.
the
barns,
and
house
the
near
of
sufficient number
a
by placing barrels
tlie liens
for
made
spring
the
In
lost.
are
boards
wide
or
CULTURE.
TURKEY
to
allow
to
be
the
piled
better
if
not
together
near
return
first
are
to
their
are
own
nests.
Mr.
Tucker
turkeys
at first
by setting
with
dough
contented
are
a
off with
come
hatching being
left
eggs
when
the
to stay
couple
of
experienced
on
to
of
their
the
eggs
the
days old
a
are
nest
and
few
fate.
same
due
those
young,
This
age.
to
longer.
seem
trouble
some
was
in having
late
partly
By feeding
hatch, they
When
the
in
come
over-
hens
are
also
turkeys
quite strong, they
are
PRIZE
placed in
ESSAYS
basket, and with
a
part of the farm.
twelve
feet
where
it
long and
is
not
are
flocks attract
of the
poults
or
dough, and
back
a
near
other's
is
hen,
toward
the
in
the
from
some
turkeys, when
will
remain
out, and
they will
In
become
come
when
about
they
until
they
used
to
the
house,
10
corn
to
fresh
placed
water, for
such
jjlaces,
rain
and
the
young
without
being
worn
the
attendant
of
let out
are
that
the
of
given
pens
eight
or
times
each
are
fed
no
in the
was
twice
feed
a
meal
mixed
with
drink, no
to
old, cracked
water
is
corn
creased,
quantity is gradually in-
sour
day.
their
old
feed
Until
milk.
day.
until
From
After
June
1st
1st
this Mr.
September,
daily, but
consists
June
they commenced
latter part of
given them
four
milk
weeks
with
daughters, has
Until
weeks
the
ten
turkeys,
rounds.
corn
sour
four
When
of
Tucker's
the
go
moistened
give them
whole
to
the
with
Mr.
consists
are
three
July 15th they
of
one
meal, and
at
corn
fed
are
heard,
days, when
hen
the
familiar
miles
food
the
with
of cracked
in
looking after this number
being given them.
mixed
six
or
called, they
three
milk, and
sour
brood
be
free range.
old their
weeks
five
so
hold
may
in
go
are
pens
they fill with
follow
to
feeding and
to walk
to
while
attendant, usually
the
that
may
may
the
leasing
re-
quickly
removed
that
some
In
step
young
are
pens
is taken
After
have
allowed
and
with
them.
to
five
or
keys
little tur-
pens
pains
cries of her
hollows
them
in
strong enough
are
these
four
The
field.
hovering their
is drowned.
brood
of
takes
The
to them.
free
ground
But
gently placed beside
ground frequently. Care
on
ent
together, lest the differ-
wind, that, if frightened, she
in which
nearly
stay until
shall
attention.
one
Tucker
Mr.
placed in the fields,
are
twenty-acre
a
put
hen
the
bring her
and
located
each
are
the
direction
flocks
put in
are
pens
the
intended
They
grown.
high,
boards,
of three
made
pens,
foot
one
to a remote
hen, removed
tlie
Triangular
145
CULTURE.
TURKEY
ON
to
Tucker
to come
when
a
of late years,
tle
lit-
he
146
has
thought they did
continued
In
the
feed
November
they
rapidly
when
given.
If fed
When
quails,
hens
the
and
their
flocks
fall.
About
half
latter
In
in
pounds, and
does
not
hens
the
considerable
quickly
very
disease
montlis
old.
island.
Mr.
have
the
Many
are
first
There
a
are
eighteen
each.
stolen
their
to
he
twenty
Tucker
has
them,
He
nests.
if such
readily, and
more
in
in the
Mr.
turkeys, he looks
has
birds
are
disease
as
them
upon
and
dressed.
He
Thanksgiving,
gray
my
obtain
black,
C.
ago
other
from
or
New
poultry.
those
who
they
as
mixture.
Narragansett
dark
ones.
they look
as
He
keys.
turfers
pre-
better
Year.
IDEA.
LAFAYETTE
I commenced
a
the
weights sell best except
WISCONSIN
BAKRETT,
on
legs,
are
three
or
skunks
short
to
and
finds medium
THE
years
the
Christmas
MARY
similar
generally
two
or
turkeys
buff, brown
to
weasels
with
His
color,
lost
are
August, when
foxes,
bodies.
also
are
in
or
no
light gray
brown
with
and
hens
the
litters hatched
When
prefers birds
plumpest
There
Four
size of
separate,
sexes
turkeys, and
among
week,
Tucker
of
the
the
breeders.
during the
I could
the
litters.
sick
ble.
trou-
mixed, for
and
turkeys of the early litters that
The
when
late
they get
winter
over
spreads
die
loss among
flock
pounds
have
bowel
be
to
finer
also
corn
the
gobblers
second
hens
fall
one
eleven
to
ten
to raise
care
it is because
kept
weigh,
May
is
most
usually join forces
the
Thanksgiving,
of
new
turkeys get
young
gobblers going together
another.
at
the
until
together
roam
flesh
they have
corn,
will eat.
best, fatten
the
usually gives old and
fattening.
two
new
they
corn
the
corn
quality of
the
Tucker
Mr.
flint
white
has
season.
given all the
are
it, and
on
it is
whole
and
it
without
enough
get
not
the
like northern
They
as
CtlLlCTKE.
TUJifiEY
COUNTY.
turkey raising in
I started
had
had
with
all the
tion
connec-
advice
experience in that
148
when
know
After
and
the
the
time
turkeys
in
her
place
large, dry
a
each
dust
Take
under
head,
Take
old
an
the
sack ; let remain
You
By
pan.
find
them
treating
effect than
after
using
the
during the first
powder
The
for
The
four
for
be
little
the
shut
up
cents
I
I
has
it
use
casionally
oc-
turkey's life.
seed
chant
mer-
use
apiece,
The
have
her
that
must
be
to
to
I
keep
the
but
allow
they
feed
last for years.
two
are
then
I
with
turkey hens
kept clean, and
cost
the
them
directions, but
they
corn
them
keeping the
boxes;
ones
her
liberty, and
know
all
little
for
it.
After
the
and
sufficiently;
the
months,
them, only
to
meal
water
with
coop
will
fresh
mother
whey,
feed
meal
corn
twice, giving
two
large dry-goods
and
I
at all times.
the
I
the
the
if I
for
is contrary
long
of
skimmed
sweet
give them
moisten
twenty.,
hard-boilea
on
in
off
mother
in
eat
mine
I
pour
milk
liberty
poultry.
so
the
skim
allow
feed
soaked
plenty
trouble
more
nevertheless.
large.
of
powder
reliable
to
pepper.
tlie coop
their
I
to
black
keep
in
old,
other
enough
sweet
confined
no
bottom
immediately
of the
commence
milk,
day, and
a
little turks
have
or
key
to the tur-
the
run
any
days, then
sour
wet
oats, and
months
cloth
it,also, and
from
bread
ten
or
ground
drink, also
hen
fine, or
Scald
five times
and
obtained
hatching.
week
a
will
a
insect
months
two
turkeys will
after
curds.
curds
add
little
chopped
milk,
the
with
backs.
twenty-five cents, postpaid.
hours
eggs
and
be
can
in
little turks
mother
old
lice
this way,
letting the
Kub
it.
dead
top
bottom, put
the
give them
then
and
the
on
their
on
with
over
and
the
in
paper
them
cover
will
more
sprinkle
haa
turkeys
; rub
and
half-hour
a
little
powder
wings,
in, and
the
mothei
floor,that
insect
basket, put
or
pan
little turkeys
hen.
Persian
with
one
with
coop
the
I take
hatched,
all
are
twenty-
her.
set
you
previously provided.
been
will be
look for little turkeys, which
to
eight days from
of
CULTURE.
TUKKEY
I
do
must
about
so
be
fifty
PRIZE
If you
a
have
can
mine
fixed
reach
the
the
little
the
that
turkeys
do
If
so.
they
of them.
I had
THE
been
find that
to the
the
best
the
Second
turkeys
"
two
Third
nests,
and
I prepare
three
hatch
and
I find that
and
seem
to
to
and
a
a
Then,
freshly
few
old
the
for
that
long time,
a
I
attention
that
care
proven
the
ent
par-
over
male
and
that
eggs
laid
males
fe-
have
a
and
for
of
by
and
larger
steal
their
produce stronger
the
turkeys
and
where
enough
in
straw
allow
fresh-laid
set
of
shape
two
eggs,
manage,
if
old
bpx,
the
I
shows
one
an
her
them,
to
if
herself, I
the
little
to
kindly
However,
shelter, and
the
they like,
out-of-the-way places,
place for
a
to
when
usually take
outfit, in
an
taking charge
I
out
sod
boards
carefully, until
scribed,
de-
as
turkeys, and
by careful
convenient
turkeys
pick
cut
most
yearlings.
broods
in
nests
possible, to give her
with
box
a
and
COUNTY.
appreciate the favor.
disposition
turkey hens
lose
keeping
of allowing
their
large
at
coop
generally
in
I take
"
have
years
Instead
"
low
al-
away
nice
secured
never
of the
those
can
sneak
business
First
Experiments
turkeys than
let
flock.
same
or
you
SYSTEM.
are
:
her,
to
you
the
will
CKAWFORD
related,
not
are
from
points
hen
much.
turkey
results
following
birds
a
in the
it
to the
to make
hen, shut
so
CLAKKE,
A.
the
Where
return
PENNSYLVANIA
SIRS.
Having
will
twenty-one
it rained
never
days, after they become
able
turkey
raised
in 1892, when
was
they
feed
hens,
quite old, and
are
one
she
and
fine
you
have
where
coop
common
on
make
I
gravel.
free, they
get
once
stay till the turkeys
and
been
never
the
the
for
coop,
night, but I have
sand
liberty
to the
them
pull it and
with
run
their
accustomed
I move
with
have
lath, although
sometimes
her
149
CULTURE.
handy,
are
way.
grass,
hens
TURKEY
hen, with
also furnish
and
ON
boys that
for the
runway
had
ESSAYS
to
bottom,
remain.
keep
turkeys and
them
two
150
hens
at the
same
do
this,
to
after
that
the
do
will
half
are
the
When
hard-boiled
little
it
for the
they
whole
wheat
makes
Besides
bits.
I
To
will
the
small
them
from
soon
to
broken
better.
in
dishes
anything
heard,
if
as
mixing
by
the
article
them.
for
of
find. I
for
is broken
fastidious
never
those
to
Some
I
more.
supplied
would
turned
creatures
sharp, white
all
up
so
eager
save
that
the
for
fragments.
by accident, scarcely
exclaims, "Oh,
tonishing
as-
direction),
that
fowls
I
bit that
(and it is
pounding
saw
diet,
yard, and
Every
throats
in
small
accident.
turkey
is
old,
into
oyster shells, thinking that
I could
one
change.
begin
up
queer
they clamored
I went
some
a
capacity
and
dish
1
pounded
their
disgust,
a
the
to
diet
a
couple of weeks
a
value
the
are
greatly prefer
are
this
no,
they
as
Nowadays
But
until
turkeys.
to swallow
ground
crumbs
eagerly
This, I think,
into
their
great
bread
the
clear wheat.
its
down
go
pick
old,
ware,
thrown
with
I
this, using less
think
may
them
continue
they
as
learned
enough
and
for growing
turkeys trying
them
fore
be-
then
them
see
weeks
the
eat
were
freely with
much
older
feed
mixed
accustomed
earthen
I
and
They
bread,
disappeared, and
soon
is
four
wIjo
how
be
about
will
dishes
found
grow
they
tliat
that
death
to
first week,
leaving the
soon
the
to
them.
eat
broken
say
broken
was
to
with
those
run
the
ages,
eat, I
to
fine, for the
bits of egg,
this, as
give them
can
age,
ones
begin
amusing
best food
the
of different
turkeys
very
are
bread, until
an
invariably found
bread, crumbled,
alone, but
egg
of
near
have
I
chopped
obliged
are
When
I
is
so
they, each
grown.
eggs,
and
being
turkeys
young
;
der
or-
until
set
to
turkeys
pick the smaller
begin feeding wheat
they
mother
broods
and
trample
they
around
old
two
several
all the
give
injury.
are
turkeys
I then
In
possible.
as
the
allow
not
the
to
that
near
as
laying.
without
there
eggs,
or
large brood, and
together
ones
I
hatched
a
where
time,
second
are
having
of
CULTURE.
TURKEY
a
for the
sigh
tur-
PRIZE
keys.
"
ESSAYS
Strange
which
treated
Does
any
to
a
ask
one
them
to
how
evening
rations
the
into
scramble
I feared
the
and
board
larger I furnish
and
with
for
milk
a
with
a
clean
I
drinking
had
keys
little tur-
it
first
lowed
swal-
only made
best
the
old;
as
for dust
By following the
enterprise. One
thing
meal
a
when
turkey
The
viz. :
or
ture,
culyou
feeding
mixed
chop
up
digest easily, although,
not
and
pepper;
in
in
corn
it does
then
ashes
success
carefully avoided,
as
them
confining
lice.
from
turkeys
weeks
two
from
paying
a
fresh
always
milk
curds,
supply them
with
water.
WESTERN
FAMOUS
NEW
SAKAH
FRIES,
is 73 years
old, and
BY
YOKK
KEYS
TUR-
GROWN.
ARE
lOur contributor
that
occasionally give them
little black
THE
HOW
it
water,
change,
As
delight. At
young
by
grass,
free
foods, such
or
stone
they greedily
the
keep
I
at least
are
that I have
raw
few
a
bits.
the
see
ing
morn-
large
a
plentiful supply of wood
a
consider
will notice
of wet,
they
I have
methods,
the
small
with
found
soon
dewy
keeps them
baths, which
above
this,
to
till
pen
to
usually
lively.
through the
roaming
funny
squeaking
but
them,
addition
In
them,
on
into
large pieces which
kill
healthy
it is
I
I take
wheat,
them
have
crockery.
be fed?
and
ten
of-
so
that
pounded
placing them
I break
grass,
after
that
would
them
the
flocks
feeding them
bread
and
feeding place,
they fly off
after
of
ware,
the
this should
day;
a
turkeys and
supply of
often
twice
pieces of earthen
near
ble
signs of the liver trou-
among
generous
151
CULTURE,
no
seem,
fatal, has appeared
been
and
it may
as
TUEKEY
frequently affects growing
so
proves
give it
ON
COUNTY.
ONTARIO
has
been
a
successfulturkey
raiser for
fifty years.'}
I
the
nine
keep
two
previous
eggs,
I visit
I
As
season.
place them
every
five hens, which
gobblers and
hen
and
as
soon
under
allow
a
I
can
sitting hen.
her
are
saved
gather eight
Every
to eat all the
com
or
ing
morn-
she
152
TURKEY
will from
old
I
hand.
my
place them,
giving them
small
stones,
in.
This
feed
wheat
bran
mixed
grease
their
heads
lice
Boiled
to
when
few
a
and
be
raised
were
dressed.
the
many
years
They
ONTARIO
I have
success,
each
year.
I select
I
around
in
as
if
the
old
any
them.
breed
first
the
ones
five
keep
the
They
I
to
water
do
not
light, and
every
them
young
that
have
fall, and
prefer
a
in
during
warm
high
in
roost.
stormy
winter,
me
COUNTY.
twenty
forty
is
eighty birds
to
birds.
good
from
with
years,
I
prefer
flock, and
my
proved good mothers, keep
and
good
a
keeping
as
cents
RAISI"JG.
hens
the
I 1ft
weather.
look
improved
flock
same
ing
dur-
grain, and
the
house
I
by themselves
mixed
it in
never
from
one
house
a
gobbler.
a
from
one
a
drink, warming
day, except
tame
from
liberally with
require
turkeys
each, bringing
last
hens
get
keep them
winter, feeding
pure
best
possible, never
hens.
the
of
six
there
roost
fine
tered
scat-
night,
eighteen
for
LEEDS
requisite
or
bran
loft at
hundred
TURKEY
GREEN,
flocks
having
feed.
the
daily,
to
is
dollars.
turkeys for
The
if I have
A.
I
As
wheat
a
learn
sold
IN
JOHXSO.V
raised
good
Bronze.
hundred
in
times
dollars
two
old
Vty a hen.
into
two
and
METHODS
MliS.
them
of
ago,
averaged
of four
sum
snug
several
they will
first brood
My
little
a
days
oats, and
good
fed
and
old,
three
quantity of bran
Drive
grass.
weeks
safe.
be
mother.
milk, and
or
bills
destroy lice, for there
to
with
may
of the
h)eing hatched
the
mashed
clean
two
necks,
after
mush,
a
the
on
and
at
coop
only dip their
in reach
coop,
hours
few
filled with
vessel
could
When
I increase
potatoes
thinned
the
a
platted
a
shallow
a
ones
in.
them
on
in
carefully curdled
with
them
increases,
age
little
place outside
I
I then
always
in
are
ones
mother,
their
water
the
so
little
the
When
with
once,
CULTUEE.
coldest
as
them
weather.
hens, but
out
I
give
for
think
allowing them
want
a
run
keeping
to
be
PEIZE
ESSAYS
OK
frightened by children
time
I then
give them
eggs
where
lay
outside
I wish
the
brush
pile
eighteen
to
a
lay in the
free
them
hide
to
their
twenty
nest, before
same
few
feet to
nest
One
turkey will
a
ready
to
the
set, put
as
sixteen
to
of
choose
to set, I
a
the
to
make
a
in it.
nest
egg
other
in peace.
eighteen
if weather
under
eggs
is
cold, feed
off for feed
come
them
in search
more
put
leave
nest
often
as
necessary.
When
of the
old
hatching, do
nest, but
Then
if it is
slat
Feed
the
bread
feed
damp
always
drop the
curd
it
hot, and
bread
anything
soft
I add
little
of
the
mix
makes
with
a
they get older
quite
the
never
a
when
I
boil, dip
a
a
ration
four
I
curd, always pouring
anjfthing else,
it
for
the
nor
do
being thoroughly scalded.
Feed
for the first few
four
days,
then
I
shorts
added.
scalding
soaked
As
old
and
shorts
they require
whey
as
well
as
scalding hot.
I
give that without
ever
five
times
tops
bread,
to
curd
the
of
is
turkeys.
young
feed
(I
days old
while
added
five weeks
on
onion
four
or
This
dry
weather
milk
some
use
and
little sweet
and
or
eggs
quite
and
curd
coop
out.
soaked
the
a
the
and
the
out
drop the bread
about
it
three
little shorts.
splendid
in
in
run
pepper,
When
with
her
When
feed, instead, with
lot of shorts.
feed
black
If
out.
hard-boiled
on
sloppy).
or
by them.
buttermilk
to
alone, and
a
and
eggs
come
days
to
ones
milk, squeezing
sweet
relished
made
Let
in
cold
or
three
or
them
far, put
little
out
twenty-four hours.
least
too
them
to take
hurry
day, put
ramble
to
a
at
sunny
warm,
first two
in
them
front, allowing the
soaked
never
are
a
be
not
leave
is inclined
one
with
I
or
it and
have
field
they begin
they will
April.
generally lay from
two
draughts, and
if warm,
nest;
the
side, and
one
find
soon
each, protect from
on
Should
eggs.
first of
seldom
They
nest.
laying
barns, leaving
I
roaming
or
the
the
to
lay, and
to
when
trouble
is about
access
153
CULTURE.
saves
mine,
buildings
new
When
dogs,
or
which, with
couies,
TURKEY
or
;
six
when
times
three
a
day
weeks
154
TUEKET
three
old,
weeks;
times
in
water
I
have
never
from
let
cold,
I
them
damp
shower
wet
have
attained
as
When
teed
own
mine
for
the
living,
on
com
and
are
do
market
buckwheat
better
do
weeks.
When
shut
not
and
them
cannot
they
to
to
the
get
farm,
of
out
up
let
of
den
sud-
a
able
run
roosting
If
If
hardy,
do
so.
stable.
the
and
safety,
they
very
have
except
one
turkeys;
eight
they
will
for
preparing
weU
provided
Keep
nearly
or
the
the
or
they
age
and
have,
six
for
off,
in
in
lose
night
is
them
put
first
that
dew
feed
up,
comes
stand
their
I
four
at
evening.
seldom
at
up
the
morning,
and
and
them
until
out
day
a
convenient.
turkeys
shut
twice
morning
eat
dish
sick
accident.
not
will
shallow
a
and
sufficient,
they
all
give
pure
is
CULTCEE.
doors.
fatten,
run
out.
but
a
INDEX.
Afflicted
chickens
Alter
killing
Air-slaked
lime
Appendage,
Assorting,
fleshy
packing
in
mothers
Attentive
B
Babcock,
by
Barber, by
Barns, free access
Barrel
to
nest
C, by
Barrett, Mary
Battles
of males
of Bronze
Beak
Beginners
breed
Billy, the
Black, the
Norfolk
Black
varieties
Black
Best
Blackhead,
"Bleed
contagions
Out,"
half
Bleeding, by
Blue
choice
Body,
Bone
mill
feathers
Boston
cutter
for
market,
Boston
at
or
Thanksgiving
trouble
for
Breakfast
Breeds, classification
Bowel
of
Breeders, for
of
Breeding
stock, care
for
Broilers,
fancy profits
Bronze, tlie
Bronze
crosses
Brush, the
Buckwheat,
Buff, the
whole
Buying
Call of
Cankers
156
157
INDEX.
Eggs,
to insure fertile
when
begin to hatch
Eggs,
Etymology
of
Europe, into
Experience
gobbler
Fanciers'
1
an
albino
6
Keview,
for
from
97
raising
48
120
to
and
autumn
early
winter
8
Fattening
Faults
130
1
with
Fascination
Fasten,
Fat, in
119
and
in
the
Favorites,
Feathers
Feathers
marketing
parentage
72
137
36
of Bronze
17
of
82
Feathers,
Feathers,
Feathers,
choice
Feathers,
to
body
dry picked
ship
82
83
84
83
period
68
price of
Feathering
Feed
Killing
of
young
hens
for
market
Kousso
Koussein
47
111
111
52
Feed, after first
Feet, marking
89
the
Female,
Fencing
Food
121
48
113
cooked
Food,
Food,
deprive
fourth
of
week
68
76
after
hatching
Food,
117
68
green
breeders
in
France,
For
J'ries, Sarah, by
early
Laying and hatching
Leg weakness
Liberty of
54
liice
Lice,
Lime,
58
Little
75
53
31
13
124
Laying
Layers,
50
151
Frightened
hatched
Late
Lavender
find
air-slaked
to
turkeys
Liver,
disease
of
foxes
and
Loss, from
hawks
Lotion
G
London,
at
111
70
26
125
101
68
106
128
98
34
Gapes
the
Gobbler,
40
131
Gobblers, change
and
neck
152
Grease, head
A., by 152
Green, Mrs. Johnson
food
Green
Growing,
Grown,
68
business
after half
a
43
122
turkey feathers
Marketing
Marking
Habits,
not
Half
bled
Half-blood
Half-wild
Hard-boiled
changed
out
hens
gobblers
eggs
Hatching, day of
Head
of male
Hindrances
Honduras, the
Hot
feed
for young
5
76
38
40
117
65
16
90
85
when
Matured, when
120
129
36
Mated,
Mating
10
Matrimony
Meal, first
Megnin,
81
by
15
Mexico, domesticated
from
Mexico,
the
Mexican,
63
Mongrels
in
65
104
2
1
15
36
158
TURKEY
CULTURE.
birds
for lice
Purchasing
Pyrethrum
95
92
Q
wild
Quarter
38
crosses
K
of
Raisers
73
Raising by women
of
Raising, fascinations
Raising in Illinois
Raising, why difiScult
Range
color
Rare
Rations,
45
48
131
136
buff
43
28
72
chicks
64
of
extra
the
Rearing
peacock
Relations
to
Restives,
the
2
59
Island
Rhode
station
Island's
Rhode
experiment
39
famous
143
system
Rhode
Rhode
Pattern
Red
Island
Island
67
30
3
brought by
Romans,
Roosts,
Roost,
13
on
127
to
97
Roup
Run,
Rudd,
for
out
152
a
"
H., Son
W.
Co.,
179
write
S
Dr., by
Salmon,
109
83
feathers
Scalded
Scalded
Scrofula
stock
77
98
feathers
Secondary
Second
hatchings,
Second
prize essay
21
133
after
118
123
of raising
Secrets
birds
Selected
parent
time
to
Sell, best
Selling after Christmas
Sitting,
to
115
79
81
55
prevent
Sewell,
by
Sexon,
Mrs.
34
A.
J., by
Sheds
Shelter
Shingling
Shipping
Shipping
Shrinks
cold
in
in
weather
dressing
Sick, isolated
when
undesirable
Sitting
in
Size
Skin
Narragansett
Slate
of
of
young
turkey
fowl
46
86
85
66
77
78
76
118
ity
local133
33
25
31
159
INDEX.
Slate
by
Dr.,
Smith,
feed
bread,
Soaked
Standard
weight
Standard
of
Storm,
Walter,
l.'!2
Wattle
16
30
Weak
42
Weight
for
milk
Sweet
by
of
White
Weight
of
Narragansett
31
128
best
pay
50
breeders
how
York,
New
Western
151
West,
117
Western
shippers
Western
style
19
shipments
Wet,
78
67
board
of
151
avoid
food,
raw
81
from
118
young
get
to
Symmetry,
Holland
Weight
Western
25
grown
P.,
C.
Mrs.
16
Bronze
123
experience
Sutton,
of
Well-dressed
never
Successful
poults
122
76
Stnn,
snout
or
109
a
m
100
by
D.,
H.
Dr.
26
62
by
B.,
by
Dr.,
108
113
a
W.
Stevenson,
Stiles,
Buffs
of
excellence
make
to
Start,
W
30
varieties
T
24
Holland
White
Tail
21
feathers
buckwheat
Whole
111
Tansy
prevalence
Tapeworms,
by
85
found
where
Wild,
S.,
Mrs.
Williams,
5
faster
Wings
125
bodies
123
essay
to
Training
Winter,
time
any
58
18
Wolff,by
14
Trap
for
Wooing
10
of
145
Triangular
103
Worms
pens
experience
Tucker,
62
146
idea
Wisconsin
at
sit
in
training
70
red
the
Throw
than
grow
90
prize
by
Windbreak
80
Thieves
Third
136
72
shipments
Thanksgiving
eggs
80
before
Thanksgiving,
38
turkeys'
129
Boston
at
Thanksgiving
108
Wild
K.,
B.
Tarkington,
54
in
state,
Wild
of
127
of
39
127
Turkey
tree
Two
Veimin,
30
Beds
Tuscawara
broods
to.one
free
Irom
mother
118
140
Young,
care
ot
116
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