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Show poBtitafi I TURKEY HEN IS BEST MOTHER I he Knows Wants of Poulte and Cm B Talk to Them In Language They Soon Learn. H (Prepared by the United State Depart. B ment of Agriculture,) W, For poults Uio turkey lien Is the HI best mother thnt can be found. She H knows their needs nnd con talk to Hj them In a language thoy soon learn K to understand. At tho approach of any dnngcr she gives a low, warning - V Bote that sends them scurrying la B every direction for n weed or patch H of green grass whero then ca lie Hj tint on the ground snfely hidden from H' view. Whlto on free range, she keeps H her brood together by talking contlnu- H ously In a contented, purring tone, so H that tho poults always know where H she Is. B When her poults become widely scp- , B nratcd, or It somo becomo lost, and B sho hears their "peep, peep," film calls H them with tho characteristic yelp H heard so frequently during the laying H treason. Now nnd then, whlto tho jH poults nro but n fow days old, sho H catches n grasshopper or other Insect H and calls tho poults to conio and get H It. They soon learn to find their own B food, howovcr, nnd rnngo out ahead B of the mother hen in search of what- B ever thoy can find. D Young turkeys usually remain with H tho mother hen until about October or H November, when the males ordinarily , B scpnrnto from tho females nnd range H by tlicmsclvcs. When two turkey hens H with broods of about Uio same age B nro turned out on free rnngo together B thoy will remain In ono flock, and as B this makes It easier to hunt them up B BBPIHK? I Ybbt '"'JbbbbWB I i&BHYBM I & IB HB B UMiBBflBJBHHjMMsMMMpMMgM HB fflHaai I ff ItByJsjSjSssSBSSjs ia TBsTw Bs rtliEVBTViOurBISflDgSjki VTrBBB BS The Turkey Hen Takes Qood Care B of Her Young. B and enro for them, It Is advlsnblo to B , turn 'nut two or threo hens with H their broods together when they are B given frco range. It Is not n good -H plan to lmvu moro than this number H of young poults In ono Hock, say poul- B try specialists In tho United States B Department of Agriculture, as thoy H muy all try to crowd under ono or B two liens to bo hovered. B |