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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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April 28, 
TIMELY TURKEY TALKS. 
In our care of turkeys we should fol¬ 
low nature as closely as we can, remem¬ 
bering that in the wild state they always 
make their nests on the ground. We do 
the same when we set them; selecting a 
place where the water cannot stand; mak¬ 
ing a little hollow in the ground, just 
enough to keep the eggs from rolling out. 
Put a very little straw or chaff in, and 
place 17 or 19 eggs (according to the 
size of your turkey) in the nest. Place 
a good-sized coop or box over the nest 
leaving one end open, so as to allow the 
turkey to go on or off at her pleasure. 
When you have everything ready, get 
jour turkey from the place she is sitting, 
carry her to the nest you have prepared 
and set her down in front of it. My tur¬ 
keys will almost invariably walk carefully 
on the nest, and settle contentedly on the 
eggs. Now place a board securely in 
front so she cannot leave the nest. If 
she is a little slow about settling down, 
it will be well to throw something over 
the box so as to make it dark. After she 
has set there for 24 hours or a little 
longer, take the board away, and keep 
watch of her coming off. Have food and 
water near, and a good place for her to 
take a dust-bath. Don’t let her go near 
her old laying place if you can help it, 
as she will be likely to go back to that 
nest. After having been off the nest for 
a half hour or less, if she does not seem 
inclined to go back, call some one to help 
you, and very quietly and slowly close 
in on her, guiding her toward the nest. 
She will probably go on it eventually, 
but it may require some patience on your 
part, but it is time well spent, as you will 
seldom have to do it more than twice. 
When she becomes familiar with her sur¬ 
roundings you can trust her instinct to 
guide her in leaving and returning to the 
nest as she pleases. 
We are seldom disappointed in having 
a good hatch. I recall one case where the 
turkey was shut off her nest for all the 
night, and still brought out 18 turks from 
the 19 eggs. During the five weeks of 
incubation you will have plenty of time 
to get your coops in good shape. If they 
are old coops, saturate every part of 
them with kerosene a few days before 
you expect the hatch to come off. If you 
need new coops, make them large enough 
so the hen can turn about easily, and high 
enough for her to stand with her head 
touching the roof. Make the front of 
slats, so she can have plenty of air, and 
make it light enough to be easily moved, 
but do not put a floor in it. The first 
food and care of your poults later. 
■M. c. v. w. 
HORSE WITH SCRATCHES. 
We have a horse that has had scratches 
for 10 years or more. What Is the easiest 
applied and best remedy? f. h. 
West Virginia. 
Put one ounce of sugar of lead in one 
pint of rain water. Wash the leg with 
good cold soap and water, and then bathe 
the leg with the sugar of lead water once 
a day. m. d. williams, d. v. s. 
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BEETS FOR MILCH COWS. 
What is the value of beets as a feed for 
milch cows as compared with corn by meas¬ 
ure? G. H. M. 
New Holland, O. 
If you mean sugar beets the corn is 
worth about five times as much in actual 
feeding value. This is hardly a fair com¬ 
parison, since the beets do more than pro¬ 
vide actual food. They give bulk or 
“succulence.” 
COW WITH DISEASED UDDER. 
I have a Jersey cow, milking eight months, 
with present calf, the rear half of whose udder 
has lumps. They seem to be next the skin 
or back of bag, and at times, particularly 
when cold and rainy, it swells considerably 
and sometimes gets a little painful. I bathe 
with warm water and rub with iodine oint¬ 
ment, but cannot get the lumps out. What 
can I do to relieve? w. A. D. 
Tampa, Fla. 
The difficulty doubtless arises from one 
of two causes, first and most probable, a 
derangement of the blood, brought on by 
indigestion, and increased as indicated by 
the trouble increasing when cold or rainy 
by exposure. Next and as likely, 
from the sting of some insect. In both 
cases the treatment would be the same. 
The warm water and iodine ointment are 
first-class, particularly if there is plenty of 
good rubbing. I should give the cow a 
drench of one pound of Epsom salts. Put 
in a long-neck bottle with enough warm 
water to make a solution, and pour slowly 
down thg throat. The next day and two 
succeeding ones, give an ounce of salt¬ 
petre in the feed. Keep the cow in a 
sheltered place when the weather is cold 
and wet; with a good dry bed to lie on. 
See that she has plenty of easily digested, 
and laxative food. After a little while 
the trouble should disappear. 
EDWARD VAN ALSTYNE. 
FAILURE OF “COMPANY" HORSE 
DEALS . 
I note your inquiry in a recent number 
of The R. N.-Y. about the advisability of 
the company plan of owning a stallion. 
If the experience of one who has been 
for years in the business of selling stal¬ 
lions in this way is of any value, then 
listen to his advice and “don’t.” It will 
surely result in failure to everyone con¬ 
nected with the deal, except the man who 
gets the gilt-edge notes. Co-operative in¬ 
dustries are good sometimes, but not in 
owning a stallion. To start with, the 
company buying the horse on this plan 
pays three prices for him. Second, the 
chances are easy three to one they get 
an inferior animal. Third, so many 
horses are being sold by irresponsible 
parties that if he does not turn out well 
the buyers have no recourse. Fourth, if 
the stallion is a non-breeder or a poor 
breeder, and the seller gives them an¬ 
other, no warrantee goes with the second 
one, and the chances are much more than 
even that a horse equally as poor in these 
qualities will be given them. It is al¬ 
most impossible to get a company of 
farmers interested in an enterprise of 
this kind who will pull together. Dis¬ 
sensions soon arise, and before long the 
horse is owned by one or two shrewd 
men; or all have given up in disgust, and 
the horse has been sold to a third party 
at about one-tenth to one-fifth the first 
cost. The scheme looks attractive on pa¬ 
per, and I could name you every argu¬ 
ment advanced by a smooth salesman, for 
I have been there, but the results are dis¬ 
appointing 19 times out of every 20. I 
am positive not one company in 20 suc¬ 
ceeds in either making money on their 
investment or in improving their stock. 
If you doubt this statement get the his¬ 
tory of one hundred companies formed 
through the Middle West, Far West, 
Northwest and South, and if 99 per cent 
are not failures then my years of exper¬ 
ience in the business amount to nothing. 
As I said in the beginning, if any com¬ 
pany is thinking of buying a stallion of 
any breed on the company plan for their 
own use or as an investment “don’t,” for 
they will surely curse the day they parted 
with their cash, or put their names to a 
joint note. Failure is written in big let¬ 
ters all over the country from Maine to 
California, and from Winnipeg, Mani¬ 
toba, to Brownsville, Texas. 
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