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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Novemberr 14, 
THE RHODE ISLAND TURKEY. 
It used to be said years ago that the 
little State of Rhode Island was spe¬ 
cially famous for three things; geese, 
girls and onions. It was very sure that 
when a housekeeper bought a fat Rhode 
Island goose for Christmas or New 
Years she had something fit to set be¬ 
fore a king. The onions grown on the 
better soils of Rhode Island are cer¬ 
tainly strong, and as for the girls, we 
may safely ask any man who has a 
Rhode Island wife to answer that ques¬ 
tion. There is another product, how¬ 
ever, for which Rhode Island has been 
famous, that is turkeys. The black¬ 
head and other diseases have done much 
to injure the turkey business, yet there 
are still some large flocks left. In the 
old days when turkey raising was in 
its glory, the Rhode Island bird was 
famous from one end of the country 
to the other. For a good many years 
the occupant of the White House has 
received a Rhode Island bird, and the 
chances are that whenever he carved off 
a piece of the white meat and added 
a joint of the leg he was thankful that 
he issued his Thanksgiving Proclama¬ 
tion. The picture at Fig. 412 shows the 
owner and three of the helpers on a 
Rhode Island farm. They are holding 
corn in that way, having pumpkins, 
Dwarf Essex rape, or having the run 
of a good pasture will not eat more 
than two-thirds as much corn and will 
fatten much faster. It is surprising 
how much of his time he spends on the 
pasture. He is a very healthy, strong 
fellow, and never breaks down. My 
hogs have sold at South St. Paul for the 
last two years at the top notch. I 
usually have enough corn in the field 
to last them till January or later, and 
there usually being snow then, they 
do not clean up the late fields, but as 
soon as the snow goes off I turn on 
my sows. Last year I turned 17 sows 
on the fields March 20 and never fed 
them and seldom saw them until May 
20, when I planted corn. I took up this 
method because labor was so high and 
so hard to obtain. In the West here a 
young man will follow a thrashing ma¬ 
chine where there is a crowd for $2 a 
day, but he does not want to cut, shock 
or husk corn for that. I think that 
corn that is hogged off costs only about 
one-half as much as corn in the crib. I 
think that if many a poor man who is 
crowded in the Fall with his work to 
distraction, or is paying out for wages 
a sum that carries the balance to the 
wrong side of the sheet, had a part of 
A RHODE ISLAND FARM CROP. Fig. 412. 
four of their pets, which are good sam¬ 
ples of the birds which have made 
Rhode Island famous. It is not gen¬ 
erally known how thoroughly the poul¬ 
try business has been developed in parts 
of the little State. On land which would 
be practically worthless for most other 
purposes and which a western farmer 
would feel inclined to run from as fast 
as he could go, Rhode Island farmers 
not only do well but accumulate money 
and invest it wisely by growing poultry 
on the colony plan. The birds mostly 
run at large. They are kept in small 
houses on a free range and come pretty 
close to taking care of themselves. The 
turkey business has brought thousands 
of dollars into the State, and will con¬ 
tinue to do so if the diseases which have 
of late years attacked the crop can only 
be mastered. This is an appropriate 
time to talk about turkeys. The meat 
appears to get higher each year, while 
the habit of eating it at certain holidays 
becomes more fixed. Back among the 
hills, where the birds can have good 
range and are given good care, turkey 
raising is a good proposition. 
“HOGGING OFF” CORN. 
I have “hogged off” corn for six 
years, only a small piece at first, but 
now about 50 acres. I have it divided 
into four fields. Many think, and I 
mj'-self thought at first that there would 
be a waste of corn, but now I think 
not. The only waste is the fodder and 
jivhat loose corn blackbirds pick up. You 
ask me how much I make from an acre 
of corn. I cannot tell you in figures, 
but it is my judgment that a hog on 
his corn fenced off so as to let his hogs 
get it themselves, it would wonderfully 
relieve the situation. 
Minnesota. G. G. robinson. 
BUCKWHEAT STRAW; FEED AND BED¬ 
DING. 
Is buckwheat straw good to bed cows and 
horses? I ask because I have been told it 
would make pigs scurfy and wondered if it 
would affect horses and cows. t. 
West Cheshire, Conn. 
I have always used buckwheat straw 
for bedding horses, cattle and pigs with 
no bad results. I like to have enough 
for pigs, so they can bury up in it, and 
I have never seen any bad effects from 
it. Horses get scratches sometimes, not 
from standing in buckwheat straw, but 
from wet straw. Bedding must be kept 
dry. The way I feed buckwheat straw 
is to let cattle eat what they want of 
it, and feed hay after—as much as they 
will eat clean. 
What is the feeding value of nice bright 
well-cured buckwheat straw as compared 
to Timothy hay at $S per ton. A. l. l. 
Rushford, N. Y. 
People here, generally, do not think 
buckwheat straw of much feeding value. 
It is used for bedding, and I save mine 
carefully for that purpose; some throw 
it out. \\ ith hay at $S per ton corn- 
meal should not be over $1 per 100, 
and I give it as my opinion that with 
buckwheat straw at $2 per ton, $4 and 
$12 worth of meal at $1 per 100, a cow 
would do as well as, if not better than, 
on 4,000 pounds of hay. The feeding 
value of buckwheat straw I do not 
think more than one-quarter as much 
as hay. s . c. a. 
Warren County, N. Y. 
TIME TO BUY 
CREAM 
Separators 
now 
There never was a better time to buy the best of 
Cream Separators than right now. 
The advantages derived from the use of the good 
Cream Separator are greater in the fall and winter than 
at any other time—when the cows are old in lactation, 
the loss of butter-fat is otherwise greatest, and butter 
prices are highest. 
Likewise are the advantages of the superior DE LAVAL 
separators greatest over imitating separators when the 
milk is hard to separate and the weather cold and variable. 
In every case a DE LAVAL separator, of suitable size, 
will surely at least save its cost between now and July 1st 
next, and go on returning 100% per year on the invest¬ 
ment for twenty years to come. 
The agricultural and particularly the dairying outlook 
was never brighter and more promising. 
WHY NOT BUY NOW? 
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