Show E y A RAISING DIFFICULT JOB sanitation essential to prevent dread blackhead that the now new me methods thotis of ral calsing sing turkeys tire lire about to tit loll 1011 ive the industry Is indicated by tile success suc cesi 19 11 adventurous turkey enthusiasts have experienced tn in ninny many parts of the coun coull try during tile last season word has gradually spread around during the last two or three years that the dreaded d disease of bluck blackhead head could best bo be controlled by raising t alie le boults under conditions where the sanitation can ann be carefully controlled this lins hua given rise to ex perline tits with incubator hatching a and ad brooding and to keeping tile tho growing growall boults on oil restricted range says a writer in tle the oklahoma carnier As tile tho result of considerable meriting tIng new method lias gradual ly taken tile form of a rather det dennih bilte program hatch tile the in III Illel lh tors brood under antle r artill etal locra 81 and fal food d 1 range on fresh bresli clean ground an nil all mash starting und and growing feet feed I 1 this la 14 a summary of tile modern method now being tried with conald erable cralle sue success cess in many dIl different Terent places tile tho writer lias has hall had the plen pleasure siire of df being enabled to visit alt three turkey raisers in three different states who lio have been remark remarkably ably successful in raising turkeys by the method out lined above these places I 1 located 0 in three different states michigan it kentucky and kansas yet tin tile methods follo followed wei were surprisingly similar r and tho the results were uni uniform forin ly satisfactory the michigan num has been using tho the same tn methods ethodA for two or three years and iles Is specializing a lia in turkey farming he has i n 1 flock bock of more than 1000 birds and claims that ills his losses have been v arri e ry tow low the alio kentucky grower lives lacs in the lie famous blue eluo grass region not far from fco lexington and Is a gel general levill farmer lie he raises tobacco and other field crops and in addition to tho the turkeys has a flock of 0 more than COO white leghorn liens hens it Is worthy of note bo however wever that the turkeys and chick ens are arc kept entirely separate there wits nothing it at oil all V akiho ra to about ills his equipment as lie used clio i portable brooder houses will all coal burning broaders brooders bro oders and lud had lion homemade 10 troughs tro for feed lie he hns has about turkeys left out of about HIO 1411 hatched lie ile claims that tile louses were heavier than normal because tile the boults were chilled when tie lie had sonic trouble with his brooder stoves the kansas flock was found tit at all tin kansas experiment station at manila t ton tan this was an experimental hick and the birds had been kept in close confinement without outdoor range until they were sixteen weeks week sold old at that age they were transferred to a two or three acre alfalfa field and at tile tho time of my visit after tour four weeks on an range they were as fine and sturdy I 1 birds as aa could be wished for during their period of confinement these boults were fed plenty of lawn in clippings for green feed but ethl otherwise they had the same rations na growing chicks chick 9 this flock contained approximately birds out of that were started |