Show TURKEY IS 19 A SELF sustaining FORAGER f A V 4 5 A turkeys cannot stand Confine t by B H VAN benthuysen DENT HUYSEN thero there Is no other kind of ilvo stock that tant will return so largo large a profit to the tha successful producer as will poultry and no kind ot of poultry la Is more profitable than turkeys when handled properly the fact that turkeys will from the time that they aro are six weeks old till winter sets in gain the greater part ot of their entire living from bugs grasshoppers and waste grain that they pick up in their wanderings over the range assures their existence through this period at little or no cost to the grower they may inny be termed self belt sustain ing foragers for agers where they have dent clent range the chanco chance of profit in the production of turkeys Is gradually improving as a result of a more general use ot of the flesh there cannot be much opportunity for growing boults to maturity when they are hatched late in the season they may be sold for broilers at a good profit no dish Is moret valued in our largo large cities at the present time than broiled boults turkeys that are hatched early in the spring would grow to weigh from fourteen to twenty pounds by thanksgiving week weak these weights are often exceeded by the beat growers but as they are are the most moat popular and the most readily produced they are suggested as tho the most advisable the average yield of oe turkey hens hena Is from eighteen to thirty eggs ea ge bachor which can usually bo be counted on to produce a living the question ot of profit from keeping turkeys simply resolves itself into the tha ability of at the grower to bring hem to marketable size this can readily be done if care and attention bo be given to all the requirements it f success six standard varieties are more or less esa grown in this country bronze narragansett dun duff slate white an and black the main differences are in size and color of plumage the bronze and the narragansett are the largest t thi lia duff buff and slate aro are the medium and the black and white the smallest much improvement has been made enado in the size of tho the whites of late and they have moved up to contend for first position some of them having passed the thirty pound mark the same statement may be soon made of the dlack black as they have greatly improved during the past few years in addition to the foregoing there hero Is the nonstandard variety known as aa the bourbon reds reda they might well claim the position now held by the duff buff turkeys being quite like them and more largely grown for the market than are buffs |