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Show PROPER HOUSE FOR TURKEYS Too Much Care of Fowls Will Result In Poor 8uccett Confinement la Always Hard on Them. I have a neighbor who has been trying try-ing to ralso turkeys for flvo years now. and. has never made a success of It. He Insists that they should bo housed every night in tho samo typo of shelter shel-ter that ho uses for his chickens. I havo grown turkoys for ton years, and the only kind of oxposure that I know will hurt turkeys is allowing the little fellows to wndo through wot grass and weeds Where they are running tn a woods lot even this does not seem to hurt them, says a Tennessee Ten-nessee writer In tho Farm Progress. My turkeys aro out of doors practically practical-ly all tho time. I never had a turkey to "catch cold" and go around with head and wattles all swollen. Tho wild turkeys Profitable 8peclmem. manage to live through the bitterest weather, and I think tho nearer tho domestic bird Is left to himself, tho better he will do. A .close house Is not so good for chickens as ono whero there Is plenty of ventilation. Of course, . I would not want to exposo any bird to a wind that would freeze combs and feet, but tho open shelter seems to be enough to keep' tho' turl;cjs from suffering any such troubles from exposure. From ono end of tho year to thef1 other my turkeys roost In tho open. In tho spring they desert tho shed as soon as tho weather moderates, and tako to tho trees and hlgner fences. They lay well, and start nesting nt once. I loso a few joung ones when they get out In tho wet fields, but most of them grow up hardy and vigorous. vig-orous. In nearly every caso whero I know of turkeys becoming unthrifty and dying dy-ing off, they havo been Kept housed up through tho winter aud most of tho summer. The confinement Is hard on them. They aro naturally a bird of tho open. I havo had a few broods of turkeys hatched under tho Plymouth Rock or Brahma hens that liked to roost In tho Inclosed shelters. They never did very much good.' Thoir plumago was nover bright nnd clean looking, and their wattles and heads always looked sort ot bloodless and unhealthy. It was easy to pick them out from birds that grew up and roosted out of doors. The turkey Is only a little way removed re-moved from his wild forbears. He Is not nearly so domesticated as tho chicken. The nearer the turkey is permitted to live to nature, the better bet-ter he will grow, and the more money he will bo worth when cooped for the I winter markets. I |