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turkey poults, but utilized the equipment on the premises which had been
used for raising chickens.

Sanitation, Mrs. Engle believes, is an all-important element in successful
turkey raising. Too much care cannot be given the pens to keep them free
from infectious diseases. Once a week she has clean straw spread on the
floors of the turkey house after soiled bedding is removed. When anyone
enters the turkey house where the young poults are kept, he must put on
rubber boots that have been thoroughly disinfected just before entering. “We
cannot be too careful about this,” Mrs. Engle explained. “Without such
precaution, blackhead infection could be tracked in from the ground over
which the chickens have run.”

Although Mrs. Engle has increased the number of turkeys on the farm to
about three thousand, the cost of raising each poult has steadily decreased
until now it is close to 27 cents each. She emphasizes the fact that it is not the
cost of feeding which checks profits, but careless handling. Careless handling
causes the poults to die from disease and then the crop goes “into the red.”

Day-old poults may be secured from one of the big poultry farms at very
small cost. A small turkey flock does not require a big area for ranging, for as
many as 100 birds may be brought to maturity on an average city lot. Such
birds are carefully shipped either by parcel post or by express, and with
ordinary care 90 per cent will mature for market, giving a high percentage of
profit to the raiser.

RaisingIrishTerriers

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HAT you can do with the hobby you have acquired has been demonstrated
by Jules Beaumont, who a few years ago acquired the lease of a garage on the
rear of a building lot near Chicago’s “Gold Coast” and started his own
kennels. Beaumont had been given two pedigreed Irish Terriers, and was so
attached to them that he had rented the vacant garage property as a home for
the dogs and their puppies. People in the neighborhood noticed the fine breed