Show E successful management OF TURKEYS J A A N 43 KOBE R T V N 11 k 7 cwi V mam R splendid flock of turkeys turkey the care which turkeys receive during the winter Is a detor determining mining factor in the successful management of a nock flock they cannot stand filth and it if forced to live in it will soon sicken and die in an address some time ago on turkey raising mr W J doll bell who has had about thirty years experience in the business bual nesB said A great many people do not give T an N the great american bird their turkeys any attention in tho the winter months and that Is not right I 1 feed my turkeys oats tn in the mo morning rn and a full teed feed ot of good sound fall wheat at night and I 1 give thorn them small apples for green feed another way tn in which turkeys are neglected la in winter time Is when there la Is snow enow on tho the ground and they cannot got get any grit or gravel it la Is necessary to have a bank of gravel gr avel that they can go to and in the absence of that they should be ba supplied with commercial grit turkeys should have access to pure writer water at all times it I 1 they do not got pure water they will drink out of tho th pools in tho the yard at this time of the a year A grent great many people tell me their turkeys aro are sick and I 1 attribute tho the cause chiefly to their drinking tho the water from pools in the yard when tho the snow leaves tho the ground in the spring I 1 take away the wheat and give them only a light feed of oats once a day because they roam foam the fields and get a large amount of nutriment that is loft left over from the previous year it if you feed them oats and wheat right along the females will be too fat the male does not look for feed lie ho Is showing his beauty off all through the spring and I 1 feed the males oats in the morn morning ing and wheat at night in order to keep them in good condition tho the birds should have a range rang every day out around the yard and they should never be confined to the buildings As to night treatment the last two or three years I 1 have left my turkeys to roost on the fences on the southeast side elde of the barn where retheY they are protected from the northwest winds I 1 would not noi say cay that they are not better there than in an open shed in no case should they be compelled to roost in a henhouse 11 |