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Excerpt from Turkey Raising in California Turkey production in the United States first started along the Atlantic Seaboard and has gradually come westward. In the East as turkey production increased, disease problems multiplied until there was a definite decrease in turkey growing. In recent years eastern growers have demonstrated that by strict sanitation they can successfully grow turkeys. Clean ground, houses, feed, and stock rather than medicines are-the methods used to combat disease. Prevention was found to be the only satisfactory way to control disease. During the time turkey production was on the wane in the East it grew in the western section of the United States. Less turkey and poultry population in this section and particularly the drier climate tended to prevent diseases and parasites. In recent years, however, some sections that have become densely populated with turkeys and poultry have been having severe losses through diseases, parasites, or both. It is apparent that the western turkey grower also must pay strict attention to sanitation. By modern artificial rearing methods and sanitation, diseases and parasites are much more easily controlled than when natural methods of rearing are practiced. California is rapidly becoming an important turkey-producing state, for the long, dry summers seem to favor turkey production on a large'scale. Until the last two or three years, however, very little artificial hatching and rearing was done, though both have been successfully carried on at the California Experiment Station for the past. Fifteen years and repeated efforts were made to interest the growers in artificial methods. Turkey growers have ever been fearful of things mechanical and even after artificial hatching had again and again been demonstrated they were reluctant to believe that artificial brooding could be successfully accomplished in the field. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.