Show TURKEYS RAISED IN confinement better results secured than where boults are F free ree jh in times past many people felt that turkeys could not be raised la in confinement but that they should have a targe large area over which to range this contention has changed now however and in several localities turkeys have been raised in confinement with a great deal of success tile the minnesota BlInne sota and nebraska nebrask experiment peri ment stations have been among the leaders in investigational work in turkey production in recent years bearg with some soine such work being done at other experiment stations i in various parts of the country at both of the stations mentioned it was found that better results could be secured it if the boults were raised in confinement than it 1 they were allowed to range over a large area the method once followed in turkey production in view of these fin findings flings those who wish to go into turkey production either 0 on n a small or large scale are no doubt interested la in the practices to be adhered to in this method of turkey raising the united state department of agriculture has found that turkey production has declined consistently since 1890 in the face of an increase in the production of all other lines of poultry and live stock tills this decrease in production cannot be attributed to a decrease in demand for the demend demand has always exceeded the production or at least there has never been a surplus of turkeys on the market with which to contend this thia decline la in turkey production can be explained almost altogether by the fact that farmers have always felt that turkeys should have unlimited range because of following this method of production the turkeys came lu in contact with ith the chicken yards to the detriment of the turkey business the disease problem among turkeys which come tn in contact with chickens Is great enough that it has tended to cut down on production among farmers and farmers wives who have in the past raised turkeys and chickens together on the same range in the nebraska investigations it was found that the old method of raising the turkeys on the open range with wilh natural hatching and brooding by turkey hens was not successful on the other hand band artificial brooding and hatching by means of which feed and environment could be kept under the control of the lie producer was found to yield very good results |