Show MATING TIME FOR TURKEYS strong healthy birds begin to lay at very opening of breeding season give good care strong healthy vigorous turkeys tuck will mate und and begin to lay at the very opening of the breeding season while weaker stock will merely consume feed until the warmer weather makes itself felt in the spring it la Is true that the feed and care that the birds receive the proportion of males to females and many other things enter into the matter of egg fertility and strength of the germs but besides all these the strength of the ancestral stock plays no little part without good care strong birds may not beget strong boults but no amount of care will enable weak bards to produce str it Is after the spring hatches that the difference between good stock and weak stock makes itself most keenly felt in for that la Is the time when the mortality runs highest where coneys coveys from undersized or otherwise deficient ancestry will dwindle steadily from week to 6 week until possibly only fifteen or twenty per cent of the original hatch remain the cavys hatched from vigorous breeding stock will be fa far better perhaps sixty to ninety per cent of the young birds surviving the danger period under identical conditions if the tha boults are ranging with the turkey hen the difference shows most markedly for the greater intelligence alertness strength and solicitude of the better turkey mother I 1 p part art |