Show MEE RANGE IS ESSEN ESSENTIAL FOR TURKEYS for those who tire favorably situated for or raising turkeys a profit able side line can hardly bo be found given plenty of range where the turkeys can find grio grasshoppers shoppers and other insects green vegetation the seeds of weeds and grasses waste grain acorns and nuts nuta of various kinds hinds tho the cost of raising them Is very small and tile profits large grain and stock farms tire aro particularly we well ll 11 adapted to turkey raising and it Is on such farms tl bat most of the turkeys aro are found little has eyer ever been dona in n tho the way of raising turkeys in confinement and tint where it has been tried tho the results faults lieve been discouraging plenty of range Is essential to success in turkey ral raising sing turkeys for 13 breeding reeding in selecting turkeys for breeding tho the most important factors to be considered tire are vigor size shape bone early maturity und and color of plumage fifteen turkey liens hens catl can safely be mated to a vigorous tom it if twenty r 1 4 p TURKEYS ON massachusetts FARM five or thirty hens be kept two toms toma should not be allowed to run with them at tile ho same bamo time but one ona should bo be confined ono day and the tha other the next when two toms ore bare allowed to run together luring during the i mating season they fight badly and the stronger does all of the mating turkey hens are wont to steal hole nests in hidden places confine the hens early some morning soon after they have come down from roost tind let them tham out late into lit in the afternoon those that are laying will then lend for their nests in order to lay iny the eggs they have been holding you can then gather the eggs and set them to suit your plans b turkey liens heus chicken hens hena and incubators cuba cub tors are commonly used to incubate turkey ggs about A 11 week before tho the boults are aredus due to hatch tur RIGHT proportions OF FEED professor Kem kampster pater of missouri agricultural college gives rations nations for winter feeding ilens hens cannot lay consistently unless they havo have the right feeds la in the right proportions U H L Hemp dempster ster associate professor of poultry husbandry in the missouri college of agriculture gacs ches the following rations for win ter feeding I 1 i 1 scratch food one part wheat two parts torn orn mash ground food one part bran ono ond part shorts one part cornmeal one part commercial beet beef scrap 2 scratch food t two parts corn brie one part wheat I 1 mash abash ground oats or sour milk as a drink the parts in tho the rations are given by weight and not by volume other factors aro sro re met in egg production and irmay it may bo be that proper feeding wilt not produce desired results however how desired results reul ts cannot bo be obtained without proper feeding the ration Is one ot of the alio important factors in egg production which can bo be controlled certainly tho the man who feeds for egg production will receive more t agga ggs in a year than tile tho man who follows no systematic feeding plan mr kempster has written feeding for egg production circular no 70 which may be had by application to the college os of agriculture columbia lcy key liens should do be allowed allocc d to lilt to take oil tile the boults latched hatched they can bo b given it few eggs agga front from tho in or from under the chicken lions hens and allowed to hatch tile tho coulta tham belvea or tit nt night it newly hatched can bo be slipped under ench each turkey hen bell that hut Is to be riven given a brood ol of boults and by morning sho bile will be glad to tako take them lice arro a groat annoyance to sit alt ting ling liens nud and are one ot of tho the worst annilea cn nilea of young boults dust tho h lien hen thoroughly with sonic rood lice powder bufore she la Is placed on tile the nest liest and once it week thereafter while she phe la Is sitting in open if the weather Is ls enrin and dry no shelter Is required ns the lio boults do aj better in the open zil it ile bo rainy however they need to be protected for nothing to la moro more injurious than for them to become wet and chilled the jait most satisfactory plan la Is to conteno conkli 10 lh tac mother turkey lien hen to A n coop bobp lit in it flold field where the boults can run lit in and out and find grasshoppers green legeta uon tion and other oilier feed tho the coop should be moved to fresh ground every day improper feeding aud and boso doso confinement cause finnity many fal failure lurer lu lit turkey raising olven given free range on the av eange farm tile boults can easily pick up their own living it there Is little or wi feed outside tile coop for tile the boults to pick up they should bo be fed about five times a day feeding only a small quantity at it time A good feed tor for the first few days la Is stale siale bread soaked beaked in Iti milk find and squeezed dry cornbread corn bread crumbs and clabbered clabber ed milk or cottage choose cheese la Is also quite often fed and with excellent results green feed and grit bo be on land tit at fill all times As the boults grow older the ration should gradually bo be changed to grain |