1908. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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THE BOURBON RED TURKEY. 
I have read The R. N.-Y. for some 
time, and have never seen any mention 
of the (to me) most profitable farm 
poultry raised—the Bourbon Red 
turkey. This breed is coming to the 
front here, and when five years ago I 
sent to Michigan for my start, they 
were very nearly unknown here. Now 
I can count 40 breeders in this town¬ 
ship. They are handsome birds, red in 
color, with white wings and tail tip, 
weighing at marketing time 18 to 20 
pounds for young toms, 12 to 14 for 
hens, and this is flesh, not legs and pin¬ 
feathers. They are very tame, and best 
of all, they stay at home. I know peo¬ 
ple raising the Bronze will find this hard 
to believe, but it is quite true. Mine 
lay in the henhouse and yard, and in five 
years I have not had a hen who would 
not let me count the eggs under her. 
When I think of the time spent in 
housecleaning time, down in the orchard 
behind a big bush, so the old Bronze 
hen won’t know you are stalking her, I 
wonder that there are any turkeys 
raised. The Red hens lay from 50 to 
100 eggs, and make the best of mothers. 
They always come home to roost, and in 
the Fall you don’t have to divide up 
with the woman up the road who always 
manages to tie strings to all the young 
turkeys raised within a mile. I had a 
man write to me about turkeys this 
Winter. He said he had a neighbor, 
who was a widow, and if he could get 
a turkey he could raise without a row 
between him and said widow, all right; 
if not, he would go turkeyless to his 
grave. I sent him a trio and told him 
if she fussed about them it would be a 
case of envy, and nothing more. I think 
as the land is being divided up, the day 
of the Bronze turkey is passing. They 
must have range and where they cannot 
have this they seem to do no good. So 
speed the day of the small farm well 
tilled, and then if you want a turkey 
that will stay on your 40, get the Bour¬ 
bon Red. They will not fail you. 
MRS. F. W. SANFORD. 
Illinois. 
R. N.-Y. —We have very little trouble 
with our White Holland turkeys stray¬ 
ing from home. 
our garden this year and pulled almost 
all our onions and ate all the cabbage 
and so forth, and a drove of hogs in a 
cornfield will not do any more damage 
than will a large flock of geese. Then 
they must be kept dry. We have had 
geese that were as much as eight weeks 
old die from being out in a hard shower. 
They must be shut up at night to keep 
foxes and other wild things from them. 
They are also very noisy. I don’t dis¬ 
like the noise, but lots of people do. If 
everybody raised geese they woulcl soon, 
glut the market, as few people care for 
them to eat, as they are too fat. We 
have not had any trouble to dispose of 
ours, but I know that everybody does 
not like them as they do chickens and 
turkeys. If anybody can tell me how to 
raise any kind of poultry without con¬ 
stant care and vigilance, I wish they 
would. I find also that it takes lots of 
feed to raise any kind of poultry, 
whether you feed it to them or let them 
run and gather it themselves from your 
own fields or those of your neighbors. 
One of our neighbors bought two geese 
and a gander last Spring. They laid 
well, and she set the two geese, but to 
her surprise the gender sat too, and 
she didn’t get any goslings, so she sold 
out and gave up in disgust. We don’t 
have much success to set the geese. We 
do better to set the eggs under hens 
with the nests on the ground. When 
we have let the geese sit the eggs don’t 
seem to hatch as well, and we lose 
more of the goslings. 
MRS. JOHN A. BELLOWS. 
Onondago Co., N. Y. 
THE TRUTH ABOUT GEESE. 
I read on page 914 an article on rais¬ 
ing geese, by J. Bert McConnell, of 
Indiana. We have raised some geese. 
Ours are part Toulouse, and we have 
never raised any kind of poultry for 
nothing. My first experience was with 
three geese hatched under a hen. I fed 
them bread and milk until about two 
weeks old, and they were growing 
finely. Then I met two women who 
claimed to know all about geese. They 
said I mustn’t feed them, just let them 
eat grass, so I took their advice, 
with the result that two starved 
to death and the third one could 
scarcely stand. I began to feed it 
again and it grew to be a large goose. 
Since then I have fed my geese from 
the time they are hatched, and have had 
few to die. We feed them well till they 
are sold, but never heard of anyone 
here growing a full grown goose in 
eight weeks. If we get them ready by 
1 hanksgiving we do well, and most of 
them are not ready until Christmas. 
I he other day a woman was bragging 
about how easy it was to raise geese. 
She said she turned them out to the 
creek when they were about feathered 
out, and they did not need feeding. On 
close questioning she owned that they 
helped themselves to all the corn they 
could eat, and husked a good lot of it, 
too. Geese are all right, and are as 
profitable as any fowl to raise, but it is 
not right to lead people to believe that 
they can be raised without cost or 
trouble, for it is very far from the truth. 
We find that it takes quite a lot of feed 
as well as grass, and if they run loose 
they will eat anything. They got into 
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