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Show TURKEYS NEED LARGE. RANGE Small Pen in Town Is Absolutely Not Suitable for Rearing Meat For Christmas Dinner. For those persons in town who are thinking of raising a turkey or two in their back yards there is trouble in store. The back yard or pen is not the place for a bird which refuses to be domesticated, W. Lippincott head of the poultry department at the Kansas Agricultural college, says. The farm is the place to raise tur keys. They must have a good range. During the first few months it Is bet ter to give them no grain, but let them forage and eat bugs. If small turkeys are cared for in this way, the fatality will be much less. . Professor Lippincott suggests tha you let some farmer take your young turkeys and rear them. You might ar, range to pay a little rent to a farmer for allowing your birds to roam in his pastures. Then, along about Thanksgiving, Thanks-giving, all you have to do is to go out and harvest your turkey. |