The county superintendent is allowed, maintenance

to offer $100 each year in premiums objection to counties doing it, if for an educational exhibit. I think they choose to, but certainly you the Northern Wisconsin State Fair have demonstrated that Sheboygan has aid from its counties in the does not need any help.

TURKEYS.

Mrs. Clara 1. Ran som, Endeavor, Wis.

take any brains to talk chicken after the turkeys, but it takes brains to raise growth.

turkey does not bring so good a price and it will help to exercise the litin the market. tle turks to search for her.

Eggs.

I always try to secure one, two three settings of eggs from each hen turkey. My young hens often begin laying in the poultry house with the chicken hens and never wander away. I put the eggs in a cool place and each day turn them partly over so the yolk will not settle on one side.

Setting.

When I have about 30, I take some chicken hens, put a box where there is no danger from vermin, put about nine eggs under each hen. I dampen the eggs with lukewarm water about twice a week, as it is natural For them to be hatched on the damp ground and we must imitate nature as nearly as possible. Each day turn the eggs partly over; if they were hen's eggs the hen would turn them, but she does not like to turn the large eggs. If the eggs lie constantly on one side during incubahave crippled tion, the turkeys will feet.

Hatching.

After 26 days they will begin to pip and they are usually all fertile. I generally have one hen turkey that has set on a few eggs a week or 10 days and I give her the pipped eggs and let her hatch as many as possible, to avoid the chicken lice, which are a poult's worst enemy.

Pens.

I dust the mother and young with road dust and the least dash of sulphur and I do this every day until the little poults will dust themselves. Then I give them clean water and

grit.

Feeding.

Now comes a little careful work if you expect success. It is natural for the hen turkey to take the food in her mouth and feed her young, and the poults expect to find bugs on the leaves. A poult always looks up and never down for its food until taught to do so. Take the food between your thumb and finger and hold it patiently in line with tbe turkey's eye until it sees and pecks at it, then you will find him very greedy.

Best Kind of Food.

Boiled eggs, dutch cheese, bread and milk squeezed out dry is the best for the first few days, then table oat meal scalded up dry and wheat and buckwheat screenings is the steady diet when older. The poults grow so fast and feather so rapidly, that they need food often until thoroughly feathered, then I give them very little care.

I feed them when small, chopped, cooked meat or suet once a day; it makes the feathers bright and glossy, and give them plenty of grit and clean water; never give them Leave the young turks in the nest sour, sloppy, or unclean food; never as long as they will stay, as they dope them with black pepper and do have the yolk of the egg in their sys not daub them with grease, as nothtem for nutriment, but when you finding discourages a young turkey ike them creeping from the nest, ut uncleanness of any sort.

them in a board pen where there is plenty of shade, as the heat of the sun is destructive to them.

Do not confine the hen, jump out and in as she

let her
chooses,

After the first six weeks I allow them to care for themselves, giving them grit, water and feed three times a day and see that they are home at night.

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Turkeys are and ailments most of which proper care is attention given tions.

Diseases.

same machine, my own hens' eggs, subject to diseases as well as eggs that I had of the which affect fowls, neighbors. I was very particular may be prevented if with the turkey stock, not overfeed. given to feeding and ing it during the winter time, where to sanitary condi- as these others in the same machine and given identically the same care were more or less weak and sprawling. I think the strength of the parent stock has something to do with the strength of your young stock.

DISCUSSION.

A Member-The lady claims the young turkeys had crooked legs be cause the eggs were not turned. Do you know that it was not on account of their being on a smooth floor and the legs simply slipped out? I have seen that, where they didn't have any more trouble after they remedied that condition and they didn't talk about its being a poor incubator,

either.

Mr. Scott-A lady said to me this week that she had been using an incubator for the last three years and she found that fault with incubator chickens, that a large percentage had crooked legs. Now, I would ask Mr. Matteson if there are not incubators where the chickens fall be.

Mr. Matteson-As I understood you, low to the lower part and others you refer to crooked toes.

where they do not. Your young in

Mrs. Ransom-No, the foot and the cubator chickens are not allowed in leg would be crooked.

Mrs. Howie-I have noticed my lit tle chicks would fall from the shelf to the nursery below and the legs would spread and it would always be the heaviest of the chicks. After that, I folded a towel and laid it along the floor where they dropped and I have never had any trouble since.

A Member-I put in some straw and there was no more trouble. Mrs. Ransom-I have always found where a turkey cripples up that it doesn't pay to bother with him. The best thing is to wring its neck.

Mr. Matteson-Don't you think this weakness comes from the parent stock?

Mrs. Ransom-That is what they accused me of, but I would have turkeys by the hundreds and no cripples, and others who had purchased eggs of me would have their young turkeys crippled up where I had

the lower part, are they?

Mr. Matteson-Decidedly not. Mr. Scott-As I understand, that is where the trouble is, in the lower part, and she had paper in there which was smooth.

Mr. Matteson-A great deal of this weakness is by absorbing too much moisture. A great many have the idea that a certain amount ture must be used. much moisture, it bodies and they enough to grow right.

of moisIf there is too goes into their are not strong

If

Mr. Herbst-I believe a good deal of this trouble about weak legs comes originally from not handling the eggs right at the time they are laid. Of course, the stock must be right, but an egg, from the time it is laid until it is hatched, should be turned. you will notice the hen, who presumably understands her business, while she is setting, you will see that every time she goes back on the eggs those eggs are turned. That hen handles those eggs sometimes more roughly than we would and I believe

best each year. In regard to the band, of course the other party can take that off, and I do not think the band would be proof against anybody getting your bird. What I advise believe is the sealed band, but of course I have that can be removed by fire.