What is the cost of producing turkeys to the Thanksgiving market? How fast will turkeys grow? What does it cost to winter turkeys? and How can turkey diseases be controlled?—are questions which are frequently asked by turkey raisers. In order to answer these questions intelligently, the Poultry Department secured six Bronze hens and a young tom in the fall of 1926 and raised all turkeys handled during the season of 1927.GROWING COSTThere are many factors which will materially affect the cost of growing turkeys and of wintering adults. The kind of feed used, commercial or home-grown, and even the kind of grains used, as well as the method of management and the time of hatching poult, must all be considered. Commercial feeds will cost somewhat more than home-mixed feeds, but unless turkeys are grown in relatively large numbers and unless the desired varieties of grains and ground .