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THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
429 
RAISING YOUNG TURKEYS. 
Having had so many write me for my 
method of caring for turkeys, I will 
send you my plan, by which I have 
raised as high as 90 per cent of poults 
hatched. I set a turkey hen and two 
White Rock hens at the same time; 
give them together about 35 eggs. I 
dust them each week with insect pow¬ 
der, not louse killer, as I have known 
turkey hens to leave nest when it was 
applied. When all are hatched give to 
turkey hens, feed her corn, and don’t 
feed the young until they get bright 
and spry. Feed boiled egg and patent 
chick-feed. Throw it on their backs, 
until they learn to pick it up, then scatter 
in the grass. Feed soaked bread, curd 
made from milk and some millet until 
big enough to cat wheat, oats, etc. Give 
milk and clean water to drink. Give 
the hen a box without floor, and move 
it every day, as she will not take them 
into a foul coop. I take a box about 15 
inches square, a saucer of grease and 
some feed, go down and call them to 
me; pick up the little ones, put in the 
box; then I' sit on the top of the coop 
and grease every one on back of neck, 
on and under wings, between the big 
feathers, and around vent. Be careful 
to get all the lice each time. I do this 
every 10 days, never on a wet, cold day, 
however. If you feed carefully, keep 
dry and free from lice, and above all 
don’t feed cornmeal, corn bread or corn 
in any shape until after cold weather, 
you can raise as many turkeys as you 
can chickens. mrs. f. w. sanford. 
Illinois. 
R. N.-Y.—Mrs. Sanford recently wrote 
about the Bourbon Red turkeys. She 
wishes to say that she has no stock or 
eggs at present for sale. 
THE BERKSHIRE HOG FOR PROFIT. 
Part I. 
The hog well selected, properly bred, 
and economically fed is one of the 
most profitable, if not the most profit¬ 
able, animal on the average dairy farm, 
and I might say any farm, whether it 
be a dairy, fruit, grain, hay, or truck 
farm. But to the dairy farm the hog is 
almost a necessary adjunct, and if eco¬ 
nomically fed he will be found to be 
the easiest and surest money-getter of 
anything on the farm considering the 
outlay of money and time spent in care 
and feeding, etc. The matter of select¬ 
ing the proper breed should not be a 
matter of mere taste, as is too often the 
case with most farmers in selecting 
their farm animals, but it should be 
considered as a business proposition. 
()ne man says he does not want a white 
hog, another would not have a black 
hog, and some one else does not like 
the red hog, but what matters the color 
any more than the color of the envelope 
in which you receive your monthly state¬ 
ment from the cheese or butter factory, 
or your weekly salary? It is what is 
contained in the outer covering that we 
arc after for profit. After trying nearly 
all of the various breeds I am thor¬ 
oughly convinced from a business stand¬ 
point, in dollars and cents, that the 
Berkshires are the most profitable ani¬ 
mals I ever tried. The old adage, 
“blood will tell,” is as true to-day as it 
ever was, and it is as true of animals 
as of the human race, and no less so 
of the farmer’s hog. An ill-bred, 
starved runt of a pig or a mongrel hog 
is mighty poor property at any price. 
He is neither a comfort to himself nor 
a profit to his owner, but a well-bred, 
plump, roly-poly, young pig is a living 
picture of happiness and thrift, and a 
source of comfort and profit to his 
owner. I have tried the various breeds, 
the Chester White, Jersey Red, York¬ 
shires and Poland China, and since I 
have adopted the Berkshire for my 
operations, the question of hog raising 
for profit has ceased to be an experi¬ 
ment. I lie choosing of the breed is of 
no more importance than the choice of 
the individual for the foundation of the 
successful hog dairy. There are just 
four reasons why I should choose the 
Berkshires for the business farmer’s 
business hog. And when I say the busi¬ 
ness hog, *1* don’t mean a hog for show, 
as 1 don’t believe in show animals for 
the average business farmer. If by 
chance he should produce a show ani¬ 
mal, my advice would be to sell it for 
a show animal to a show animal man, 
and invest it in an animal for profit. 
First, activity, combined with strong 
digestive and assimilating powers, re¬ 
turning, a maximum quantity of flesh 
for food consumed. Second, their pigs 
are strong, active and vigorous at birth. 
Third, their flesh is of the highest 
quality of pork, and their loins are much 
sought by butchers as being of finer 
quality than any other breed. Fourth, 
they can be fattened at an early age on 
less feed than any other known breed. 
The brood sow should be long and 
deep-bodied, with ribs well sprung, 
jowls full and heavy, running well back 
on neck; shoulders smooth and even on 
top, and in line with side, ham deep 
and thick. Legs and feet short, straight 
and strong, set wide apart with hoofs 
nearly erect, and above all else she 
should have at least 12 well developed 
teats. Treat her kindly and give her 
plenty of nourishing food, but not fat¬ 
tening during farrowing season, and she 
will present you with a fine sample of 
her progeny, and at killing time you will 
never be sorry you selected the Berk¬ 
shire for profit. F. n. SQUIERS. 
Jefferson Co., N. Y. 
Another Hen Record. —On page 187 
of The R. N.-Y. W. S. G., of Castor- 
land, N. Y., gives the returns from his 
poultry for January and wants to know 
who can show a better month’s work. 
I have 37 pullets hatched in May which 
laid 708 eggs in January, 1908. About 
half of the pullets are purebred White 
Wyandottes and the rest arc a cross be¬ 
tween White Wyandotte and White 
Leghorn, running from one-half to 
seven-eighths Wyandotte. W. S. G.’s 
laid not quite 13 eggs each, allowing for 
what was used in the family, while mine 
laid a little more than 19 each for the 
month. j. r. w. 
Smith’s Basin, N. Y. 
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