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CONFINEMENT methods of raising turkeys have been used for several years and are becoming increasingly important as diseases grow more prevalent. Information on the rate of growth and feed consumption of young turkeys is still very limited in amount. There are less experimental data to be found on such factors as production of early eggs and poults, annual egg production, inbreeding, fertility, hatchability, confinement of breeding turkeys and feed consumption of breeding turkeys. With the increased numbers of turkeys raised the last few years has come a demand for more experimental data on factors related to turkey production. So far as the authors are aware, no information is available on the production of early turkeys and confinement of breeding turkeys. This paper is a preliminary report of observations gathered from breeding turkeys. EXPERIMENTAL The data were secured from the 1931–1932 records of the experimental flock of Bronze turkeys belonging . . .

ELEVEN farms were visited during the spring and summer of 1932 and 1933 and eggs were secured from each for studying the storage quality. Eggs were also obtained from three additional farms which were not visited. The general location of the ground used by the chickens, feed, management of the flocks, housing conditions care of eggs, health of the flocks, sanitary conditions, kind of green feed available, access to feed lots, barn yards and manure piles were factors that were carefully observed. The number of eggs received from each farm varied from thirty-four eggs to twenty-one dozen. All eggs were candled and those unfit for storage discarded. A few eggs from each farm were broken to secure a measure of the interior quality. After five to eight months of storage, all eggs were again candled and broken for examination. The average daily temperature was 90 to 100°F. When most of . . .