For an ordinary place, select from a good breed (I prefer the bronze) a large gobbler and two or three hens.  As soon as the warm weather comes, place about the barn in sheltered places two or three barrels on their sides, and in them make nice nests.  In these the hens will lay.  Gather the eggs every day, keeping them in a cool place.  When a box contains 23 eggs mark it No. 1 and begin to fill a second box, and when it contains 23 eggs mark it No. 2 and so continue.  It is well to leave turkey hens on the nest two or three days, for they often lay one or two eggs after they begin to show signs of sitting.

When you have decided to sit a hen, give her a good nest and 15 eggs and at the same time give a common hen eight eggs.  These, when hatched, are all to be given to the turkey hen.  Never try to raise turkeys with a domestic fowl.  If you have no place free of grass, you can start turkeys with difficulty.  Feeding is of the greatest importance.  For the first week I have found wheat bread moistened in water the most satisfactory.  If you can feed them by sunrise for the first three or four weeks, you need lose hardly a bird.  Each evening try and call them nearer and nearer home, so that you will not be troubled with their wandering to the neighbors’.  As early as possible train them to roost high, so as to be out of danger at night.  Bird dogs are often very destructive to turkeys, at times destroying a whole flock in a single night.  Fatten with corn.  The turkey crop ought to be one of the most profitable on our farms.

Dr. G.G.  GROFF. 
Pennsylvania.

GRAHAM.

Turkeys want care, especially for the first two or three weeks.  I feed graham and wheat bread, made by scalding the flour, making a very stiff dough, and baking in a hot oven; soak over night in cold water.  I also give them plenty of young onions, cutting them up with scissors.  Be careful not to let young turkeys out in the morning while the grass is wet.  After the birds are two weeks old I feed wheat, but no corn until they are about a month old.  I like hen mothers best, for turkey mothers are rangers, and do not take kindly to being kept in a coop.  The bread will keep a week if made right, but do not soak more than will be wanted in a day, as it soon sours.  I feed scraps from the table, such as potatoes and bits of meat cut very fine, but not much of the latter to young birds.  I rarely lose a bird.—­Mrs. E. Reith, in Homestead.

CARE AND GENERAL MANAGEMENT.