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THE CBN T K IL POINT ST^R
How to Raise P ou ltry
B '1 I f f , 1» O. Le tic a r , V S., St. Louis, Mt».
D r. L etica r is a yraJuatc ot the O n ta rio
V e te r in a r y C o lle g e , 18**:. lh i r t y - s i a
years o f veterinary p ract icv on diseases
o f live stock and poultry. Em inent au­
th o rity on poultry and Mock raising.
N a t io n a lly k n o w n p o u ltry b re e d e r.
N o ted au th or and lecturer.______
MAKING TURKEYS PAY
"Canst thee provide naught but
this eternal turkey for our bourd.
Goodm an?" quoth dame Prudence
P ennyfeather in a bit of a pet. "Me­
thinks this gloomy forest is full big
enough to have in it all birds and
beasts created since the deluge.”
Goodman P ennyfeather snatched
up his blunderbus and retorted a
bit acidly, •‘Beasts and birds there
are aplenty in yon forest anil hostile
Indians too—while turkeys in plen­
ty are at our very door. Nae-the-
less, 1 shall try again to appease
the im patience.”
,
Thai might have happened in Pil­
grim days. Even right after the
Civil W ar wild turkeys w ere so
numerous in some parts of the coun­
try as to constitute an actual pest.
They raided grain fields with such
devastating effect that it was prob­
lem to cope with them. No\v quite
the reverse is true.
Of course, no one is surprised to
learn that the wild turkey is prac­
tically extinct. One would think,
however, that the periodical demand
created by our great national feast
days would cause poultry raisers
everyw here to devote a consider­
able part of their time to turkey
raising. I believe the reason that
such ig| not the case is to be found
in the oft repeated story that tu r­
keys can only be raised successfully
on great ranches and that at best
they are so delicate and tem pera­
mental as to make them very hard
to handle.
F or those who have hesitated to
take up turkey raising, or who have
tried and failed I w ant to make a
number of recommendations. 1 shall
give a short digest of these recom ­
m endations and "will be glad to ans­
w er further questions from anyone
w riting me in care of this paper.
For breeding purposes use only
thoroughbreds. Select the strongest
and healthiest birds. Do not mate
more than 10 or 15 hens with one
male. Use incubators for best re ­
sults. You never have to wait for
an incubalor to get broody and it
will give most uniform results if
properly regulated. Use no eggs
over ten days old. Practically all
the big commercial turkey raisers
use artificial brooders. The most
up-to-date ones can be closely regu­
lated so that, barring accidents, re­
sults are fairly certain. It is always
a gamble, however, to brood young
poults with such tem peram ental
creatures as turkey hens.
A brooder house on skids is ideal
as it can be moved about to fresh
ground from time to time. Stake off
four tem porary runs, one on each
side of the house and rotate the
poults from one run to the other.
Leave them about a week in each
run. Between 200 and 300 poults
can be accommodated in a 12 by 14
brooder house. For heat, use a hard
coal stove or any other heating a r­
rangem ent that will m aintain till
even lem perature of about 80 de-
grees.
When pouits m e about 8 weeks
old they may he transferred to re a r­
ing grounds, about an acre being
set aside for each 150 to 200 poults.
These grounds should be where
chickens have not been allowed to
run ami should be fenced so chick­
ens cannot gel in with the poults.
Feed nothing the first 24 to 30
hours} 30 to 48 hours, short grass
on the sod, tender greens and but­
term ilk or sour skim milk; 48 to 60
hours, feed eggs boiled for 30 m in­
utes mixed w ith equal quantity of
dry, stale (never mouldy) bread
crumbs. Fecit this every two hours,
removing it in 20 minutes. On the
third day feed as on the second and
continue the same diet on the day
following with addition of mash
composed of finely ground cornmeal,
wheat bran, wheat middlings and
beef scraps in equal parts by weight
or a baby chick starter commercial
mosh may be fed instead. Feed the
m ath in hoppers with plenty of
green stuff always available. Con­
tinue this mash feed with plenty of
greens at all times. From day to
day feed a little scratch grains,
gradually increasing the quantity.
Scratch grains should be given spar­
ingly. however, as young turkeys do
no, require a great ileal of such
feed. See that a good supply of
fresh, clean w ater is always near by.
Never allow poults to drink from
stagnant pools.
When poults are about 8 weeks
old shift to rearing grounds if wea­
ther perm its, and pu, on following
ration; Equal parts of cornmeal,
ground oats, wheat middlings, wheat
bran and beef scraps fed in hoppers.
Give birds plenty of skim milk to
drink. Keep shell and grit before
them at all times and never stint
on fresh green stuff of suitable
kinds. My experim ents prove that
baby turkeys can be successfully
raised on feeds that are successfully
fed to baby chicks. If your present
method of raising your baby chicks
is successful, use the same method
with your baby turkeys which
should also be successful.
Finally enlarge your runs from
time to time and keep moving flock
if possible to provide fresh feeding
grounds.
Rabbit Meat
Becomes A
Popular Dish
••'I he flesh of the tiime rabbi, is
not to he com pared to wild rabbits.
II is a highly nutritious food, resem ­
bling somewhat the w hite meat of
chicken, and w herever it has been
introduced, it has gecome popular.”
United States Departm ent of Agri­
culture. Farm er's Bulletin No. 1090,
issued March, 1920, page 4.
“ It is impossible to state with any
degree of certain ty the num ber of
pounds of domestic rabbi, meat con­
sumed annually in ti e United States
bu, the im portance of the product
must not be underestim ated. In the
city of Los Angeles alone in 1926,
more than I million dollars w orth
of dressed rabbit meat was m arket­
ed. Several slaughter houses in the
I.os Angeles district are operated
where from 25,000 to 50,000 rabbits
a month are killed, dressed and m ar­
keted. and the demand still keeps u-
head of the supply.”—Bureau of
Biological Survey, Division of Fur
Resources (Leaflet No. 4) issued
March, 1927, revised October, 1927,
page 1.
The im portance of rabbi, meat as
an adjunct and im portant factor in
the meat supply of the country was
recognized by the United States De­
partm ent of Agriculture during the
w ar when the departm ent said:
"The present shortage of farm
one that cannot be remedied easily,
live slock throughout the country is
In the Belgian hare and o th er do­
mesticated rabbits we find animals
that breed rapidly and m ature early
and furnish a palatable and liigoly
nutritious meat. The supply can be
increased enormously w ithout using
space that may be needed for the
production of crops. The business
of growing rabbits on farms and on
village lots affords the opportunity
for an agreeable change in the fami­
ly die,, for cutting down the cos,
of living, and for conserving the
food supply of the country. I, is
hoped the present Bulletin may be
helpful Io manp who will engage in
a work that should be of im port­
ance at this tiine.’*
The American Kabbi, and Cavy
Breeders Association states, “There
are upw ards of 100,000 breeders of
rabbits in the United States. There
are several hundred thousand more
directly employed in the business
of breeding and raising rabbits and
O n ly on R a re O ccasione
countless thousands employed in the
You may at some time In your life industries utilizing the pelts and
have been "ensconced” ; It Is possible
you may have "evoked a storm of pro­ fur so obtained.”
test” now and again, but were you
“The raw fur industry of the U nit­
ever In time of Are "driven to the ed States is centered in New York
street scantily clad?"—Lufayette Jour
City. Practically all the rabbit skin
nal and Courier.
im ported from foreign countries or
produced and sold in the United
U n w is e in O p p o s itio n
If those who are the enemies of In­ States eventually reach this great
nocent amusement had the direction m arketing center.’’—United States
of the world, they wonld take away
Department of Agriculture, Farm ers
the spring and youth, the former from
the year, the latter from human life.— Bulletin No. 1519, page 9 issued Jan-
Balzac.
uarp, 1927.
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EXCURSION F ARES TO
CALIFORNIA ANNOUNCED
Electricity
means
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for the
coming
year.
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TH U RS.
January 23,^
the work that we did not
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have a servant that will j
d<> those things that are
drudgery
so
that
we
could have more time i
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for those things that are
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it answ ers this ever pre­
In Internal Medicine for the
past fifteen years
sent call to get away
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Friday and S aturday
ford to make 1930 the
’snuary 24 and Janu ry 25
Holland H otel W ednesday,
banner year to keep a-
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way from the drudgery
Dr. M cllcnlhin is a regular gradu­
ate in medieiiie ano surgery amt is
licensed by I) ■ slate of Oregon,
lie do. s not ope. ite for chronic ap-
pcndicltis, gall Inin s, ulcers of the
.stomtich, tonsils of ■ I< noids.'
lie has Io his credii WortihTful re ­
sults in diseases of the sjnnnich, liv­
er, bowels, blood,
hi , nerves, heart
kidney, bladder, bed welling, cn-
larrli, weak lung,, rheumatism , sci­
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Ills many salisfied palienis in O re­
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or the other of tne above named
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Alfred Gleiinn ns, Cnrvullis, Ore. ,
Chas. Dr 1 h, U01tl.u1!. Or«.
Mrs. J. G. Iltiol Picker, Toledo, Ore.
John Lucian,
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Bert Liiinpa. SI. Helens, Ore.
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Miss Upniiia T urner, Mikkalo, Ore
Mrs. .'ol.'i Ven I 'l l , H arbor, Ore
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Mrs. Jennie WiKflery, Salem, Ore
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