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Show w RATION FOR YOUNG TURKEYS Fowls Are Finicky About Food and Refuse Anything Not Already Familiar to Them. Young turkeys are very particular about their food and will not usually touch any food that Is not already familiar to them. For this reason the articles of food that they will need as they grow older are supplied from the first. Do not feed until the poults are at least twenty-four hours old, and then be careful not to overfeed. K eatlsfaetory first feed is a small amount of finely crumbled boiled egg, shell Included. Thl Is given three to six time a day for a week. After the second day a supply of clean water and fine grit should always be available. A sprinkle of fine chick feed Is given along with the crumbled egg, since grain forms a large part of the ration, being fed three times dally from the second to the sixth week. This grain may be a good, clean commercial chick feed or a mixture mix-ture of fine cracked corn, cracked wheat and oatmeal. In addition allow the poults to range where they can get plenty of green feed and Insects. Their feeding placu and quarters should be as far from the hen yard as possible as a precaution against disease. After the turkeys are a month or six weeks old, mixed whole grains should be added to the chick feed and may replace it as soon as the turkeys are found to take the larger grain. The mixture may consist of wheat, corn, or oats. Feeding twice or even once a day Is usually sufficient from this time on. A |