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Show POULTS MUST BE KEPT DRY Youngsters Require Good Care and Attention Morning Dews Are Bad Keep All Vermin Out. (By R. G. WEATHERSTONE.) The young turkeys require a good deal of care and management on the part of the raiser to bring them through. Keep them free of vermin. Do not coddle them too much, but try to keep them from getting out in the early morning dews, as they soon become draggled. Whenever possible drive them up when storms are approaching, as they do not stand much wetting. It is an admirable plan to have a house or big hovel facing to the south and with a small inclosure of wire netting net-ting In front, say about ten feet square. The young turleys can exercise in it before being turned out for the day, and in rainy spells can be kepi in, which is much better than being hut up in a close hovel. Have the netting high enough to keep the mother hen in. Fine gravel or sand makes a good flooring for this little yard. Always give the turkey hen a good feed of grain monng and night until the chicks are at least six weeks old. This will prevent her ranging too far for feed. The chicks will soon learn to eat broken or cracked corn, wheat or oats, and when well feathered will eat whole grain of any sort. After ten weeks they will mak their living on a feeding ground, requiring re-quiring only a little grain at night to Induce them to come home o roost. |