TURKEYS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1901, 29 March 1880, Page 2

TURKEYS.

It does not cost any more, or much more, to raise a pound of turkey than a pound of hen flesh. In the summer they require to be fed less, being m-is'erly campaigners on their own account, while in the winter very likely their nervous disposition demands somewhat more stimulus than other fowls. If well fed, they do not require nearly as careful housing as the hen, although it is good policy to make them roost indoors ; but left to themselves, they prefer to weather out the wildest storm in the tree tops. Finally, when brought to market, their tl ah is worth much more than that of the hen, so that, other things being equal, it is economy to keep them instead. Also, it is well worth considering, allowing that the percentage of loss of young turkey chicks under most perfect management is greater than the loss of the common fowl, still turkeys that survive reach such a great weight that a given number of pounds o£ turkey may, perhaps, ba raised with lees labor than the same quantity of flesh of the common, fowls. —“Poultry Monthly."