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hd tor ToRMn Birds. 
The first fod is given twenty-four to forty-eight hours 
after the bood oomes off. It oonsists of very fine oracked corn 
moistened with milk slightly and is given four times daily. Clrds 
are given mid with this mash as often as possible. The hen 
mother supplies her food needs from the rations given the young. 
The number of foods given the young Is gradually deoreased till 
0otober, when they are put on &M two foods a day which are given 
adult birds. At the end of six or eight weeks the hard grain 
ration mentioned heretofore as given adult birds is substituted 
for the last mash feed of the day, and the feeds are out from four. 
to throe a day. 
Prot~otion from Vermin and  t 
The hen mother to given her liberty with the newly-hatched brood 
on the fourth or fifth day. Every evening, however, she is driven into 
an losure iuu diately adJoining the rearing field, which is seourely 
wired against vermin, both top and sides, and ooktains a tightly board- 
ed, though well ventilated closed house or shedabno end. The brood 
Is confined for the night in this shed, the upper halr of the tront 
of which consists of two inch poultry nettingo Entranoo is effected 
through a door at the front. In this shed, which is provided with 
roosts a few feet from the pound, the birds are driven after being 
given the last food of the day in the vermin-proof wired enelosuie 
imdiately In front of it. There they are confined for the night 
and should it be raining in the morning, they are not released 
till the ground is comparatively dry. 8imilar action is taken when 
dews are heavy. Young turkeys are much more susceptible to the 
wet tha ringeaak pheasants, which accounts for the precaution 
sken, If the gass in the run in front of the shed is kept down 
t*o brood may be given relase there before being allowed to return 
to the sixty-acre rearing onolosure, in the event the ground Is wet# 
Mr. Nowell thinks much of his Sucoess with turkeys comes 
from the proteetAn he gives them at night and during wet weather, 
He is doubtless correot, as, in the wild, it is probably vermin and 
wet weather that moount for most of the atality among young 
turkeys. Birds which have thus been driven in to roost will contisn 
to frequent the coop at night after they are grown*. 
The shed and run used in connection with night housing 
are to all intents, like the ordinary poultry house with run. 
Near the center of the sixty-aoro tract is a five-acre 
tract sown to grain in ozaotly the same manner as described in 
oonneotion with the preserve. This furnishes a good deal of food, 
both grain and insects, and the broods are almo st always lcsated 
thee when the keeper sets out on his rounds to food.