Breeding Pens 47 Turkeys Should Be Tamed 51 Friends (Miss Mahaney and “Grandma Cleaves”) 77 Women Make the Most Successful Turkey Raisers 82 Turkeys Thrive Best on High Land 92 Turkey Raising Is an Interesting and Healthful Occupation 126 A LETTER TO MY READERS TURKEY PARK, CONCORD, MASS. My dear Readers:— The following is a copy of a letter recently received by me, and which represents the type of communications I have received daily for over three years from all parts of the country: My dear Miss Mahaney:— Altho we are strangers to each other, I am writing you today, regarding turkey raising. I read some time ago in the “Boston Post” that you had good success in raising turkeys, so I take the liberty of writing you for instructions, if you will kindly give them to me. I have tried for several years to raise a few, but it has been a hard job. They would do well for about six or seven weeks, then grow sick with liver and bowel trouble and fade away. Now what is the trouble? What must they be fed with? Must they range or be kept in a yard? In fact, what way must I manage to raise turkeys? What is your experience? Please write me. Sincerely, etc. It is in answer to such letters as the foregoing that I am placing my methods in book form on the market, in order to enlighten the breeders of turkeys and to inform them how I first succeeded where others have failed. In the first place, I visited two or three farms in the country. I found that no care whatever was taken of the turkeys. A common hen was fairly well looked after, fed and kept warm. The turkey was supposed to forage for itself, roost on old wagons or any sort of roost that the bird found convenient, at night and in all kinds of weather. Conditions were anything but sanitary. Inbreeding was permitted year after year, as one tom was thought sufficient for the hen turkeys of five or six neighbors.