Show i 4 ki FEW LESSONS WITH TURKEYS breeder of twenty two years experience finds business mora profitable each year I 1 have raised malsed turkeys tor for sale cole 22 years and find it a more profitable busi business nean each year says a writer in the farm and fireside I 1 have hav 0 hud had to learn many lessons b by r alte e an expensive route ono year I 1 failed entirely by too close ln in breeding another year I 1 let my turkeys wander at their own will and roost where they pleased again I 1 allowed some to go up in ih the e trees a hard storm blew them out and aid drowned 21 24 beauties since these lessons I 1 have worked differently I 1 change either breeding hens or toms toma every other year I 1 usually buy a thoroughbred bronze from somo some unrelated re abed flock I 1 keen old hens for breeders bleeders bre eders and find their boults more healthy one early turkey la Is more profitable than three late ones so BO I 1 uso use the first eggs and sell the later ones chicken hens are set on the first laying and tho the poultry given to the first turkey hen that becomes broody large airy pens or coops with rainproof roots aro built quite a distance from the house the hens are kept up two weeks reeks and then turned out every morning unless tho the weather becomes rainy they have learned to come when called and will answer me from ever so BO tar far when I 1 call peo pee conte come ont I 1 am never too busy or too tired to get them up at the approach of 0 a hard storm and at four in the evening they soon learn to COMO come home after they are five or six weeks old I 1 never feed at noon I 1 feed no sloppy feed but havo have good luck with wheat or corn bread cracked corn cooked soft wheat majhed potatoes etc the first two weeks are the roost most particular I 1 give each a grain of black pepper when it Is 21 hours houra old and a stroke of lard or Va vas ellna from bill to top of head then a teed feed of 0 hard boiled egg shell and all crushed fine mixed with bread soaked soft and squeezed dry fresh water sand lime and ground charcoal are kept handy they cat e a t of a all 11 I 1 never feed too much I 1 never feed over four times time a day and that often only a week wk more blore turkeys i die from overfeeding over feeding than tin der feeding I 1 use usa a flat board to sprinkle BD their teed feed on and keep it clean it pareto pays to b be cleanly with tur keys r |