Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1912 — FOR FEEDING TURKEYS ONLY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOR FEEDING TURKEYS ONLY

Small V-Shaped Trough Elevated to Height to Allow Big Birds to Pick From Is Useful. Often on a farm where turkeys are raised right along with the chickens and other poultry, it is desirable to feed them heavier than the bther poultry, yet suitable means of doing so are not available without a fenced yard to separate them, writes P. C. Gross of Ohio in the Prairie Farmer. In such cases the following contrivance serves admirably: A small V-shaped trough, of immaterial length, is elevated by means of supports to a height that will allow the turkeys to stand on the floor and pick from it, yet be too high to permit the chickens and small fowls doing likewise. Three or four inches above the top of the trough a board, as Hide as the trough, is attached flatwise. This prevents the chickens from flying up and standing on the edge of the. trough. The sides of the trough

should not be very wide as this would prevent the turkeys from reaching the corn or other fed in the bottom of the trough. With such a trough the turkeys may be fattened right among the other poultry, and no feed wasted on the other fowls. Of course, the chickens will climb on top of the flat board, but from it they can not reach the trough.

Trough for Turkeys.