Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 272, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1911 — POULTRY [ARTICLE]

POULTRY

s.. - '■ -,■'* '?<}w- > •** •‘••‘MF*" .• .■•h •'->*■- m - FEEDING TUT KEYS. Nothing Equate Good Sound Grain of Ail Kinds. Those who succeed best in having turkeys ready and in fine condition for the early market are those who allow them their freedom and feed them ail they will eat of wholesome fattening grain, says T. F. McGrew in Farmers* Bulletin. Even when finishing them, it is not well to confine them. If they are each day at regular hours and at the same place, it will be an easy matter to have them come three times a day to Ulis place to be fed. Their longing for food being fully supplied, less violent exercise will be taken, and the energy that would be expended In their wanderings in search of food will be directed in the more profitable channel of growing and developing for market Keep them growing from start to finish, and have them ready for the market when prices are usually the best. This may be accomplished quite easily with all the early broods, provided they are properly and liberally fed as the fall weather begins to remove their natural'food supply of worms, bugs, seeds apd herbs pt all kinds. Old corp is better than f° r heavy feeding » the latter is apt to cause looseness of the bowels. Jt MC" essary to uss new corn, it should be Introduced into the ration gradually.