Show by ANNA callighen CALI GHEn if the turkey was a failure with you this year dont get aged and quit instead use 5 our bet ler judgment and try again it you have never raised turkeys now Is a good time to begin are difficult to raise as we know by long experience but with good care and the right kind of feed we have managed to raise a good per of those batched just now we are having some trouble with ours because of our in ability to keep them out of a neigh bor s rye field several have died two more are sick the rye causes a bowel trouble which 13 biot unlike cholera after we discovered the cause of the trouble we tried keeping the well turkeys in yard this was not a sue cess they began to droop and re fused to eat just as we expected for a turkey cannot endure confinement the sick ones were given a little epsom salts in their feed and two recovered we tried several different remedies but none of the others seemed to take any effect we do not consider rye suitable food for any kind of poultry young or old green ryo not the grain la as good for all kinds of fowls as grass and if grown early in therall the fall will furnish green food tor the poultry all winter this Is its only redeeming point now Is the time to buy the stock for next year it Is better to purchase turkeys even at the present unheard of prices than to wait until next spring and depend upon eggs shipped eggs seldom hatch as well as fresh ones and turkey eggs cost anywhere from 25 cents to 1 each the mammoth bronze Is a very large and beautiful bird of the color the name implies we have raised tha bronze tor a number 0 years and find this breed possesses more good points than any one ot the others we have known of the bronze la more vigorous an therefore less difficult to raise chaa the white holland or narragansett the latter Is about as large in appearance pe arance as the bronze but is some what lighter in weight the white holland and bourbon are tal becoming more popular than formerly on account of their domestic habits h they are rather small in size and quite tame in habit preferring to stay close at home J when buying breeding stock it Is best to secure the male bird from one breeder and the females from another so that the birds will not be akin turkeys selected at random from a dealers flock may or may not be related but it is not safe to take chances inbreeding Is disastrous with turkeys do not keep more than six hens with a gobbler unless he is an old one we find that two year old hens a yearling torn produce finer turkey than young hens never keep young hens an old male bird if the hens and gobblers are both young the eggs will seldom hatch well and the boults are less vigorous than it one or the other Is more mature turkeys should not be crossed |