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*THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 11, 
RAPE FOR HEN PASTURE. 
My laying house is 100 feet long, and the 
yard in front of it is that wide and about 
120 feet long, approximately one-quarter 
acre. Back of the house the hens have a 
run of nearly two acres, with a fairly good 
set of clover and Timothy. All this is a 
young orchard. I have heretofore been 
sowing either rye or oats in the front 
yard, and when that was eaten down, the 
fowls were turned into the larger plot be¬ 
hind, the alternate yard system. The sow¬ 
ing of oats and rye is open to this objec¬ 
tion, the frequent preparation of the 
ground and seeding Is not any too good for 
the trees; trunks barked, twigs broken off 
and roots disturbed. It occurs to me that 
rape (Dwarf Essex) sown in the Spring 
as soon as the ground can be worked, with 
a good start befoie the hens are turned 
in, should furnish grain feed for them, 
about 600, for the entire season, Spring to 
Fall, if an occasional chance be given now 
and then for it to get a fresh start. Will 
the constant eating of the rape be likely 
to taint the flavor of the eggs? Is the 
soil likely to become foul from the drop¬ 
pings owing to the shade of the plants? 
I sowed rape in my brooder house outside 
runs last Spring and we had to chop it 
dowa with a sickle this Fall. Some of it 
got over two feet tall and went to seed. 
The chicks could not keep it down. But, 
of course, they were not at it for the en¬ 
tire season. A - K - 
Hagerstown, Md. 
Rape makes very good pasture for 
either young chickens or laying hens. 
For best results, the seed should be 
sown as early as possible in the Spring 
and allowed to get a good start before 
the poultry is permitted to pasture in 
it. If a good growing season, the rape 
plants will continue to put forth new 
foliage which will be sufficient green 
food for the birds throughout the sea¬ 
son unless the yards are overcrowded. 
Hens or chickens can never do their 
best when confined in yards so small 
that a sufficient amount of green food 
cannot be grown. In case the chickens 
strip the plants of the leaves it is a 
good plan to cut the stalks and keep 
the fowls out until they are again well 
started. There is practically no danger 
of the eggs laid by hens pastured in 
rape having an offensive flavor. How¬ 
ever, eggs may be tainted by feeding 
excessively of certain vegetables, and 
duck eggs especially when the birds 
consume great quantities of green 
clover. As to the land becoming foul 
from the droppings, there is no reason 
why it should if the land is well plowed 
each season, unless the yards are over¬ 
crowded with birds. F. T. f. 
yards, but at this age they “shoot the 
red” and must have room and range to 
do well. Under this age they are very 
tender and require close attention and 
special food; hard boiled eggs, milk 
curds and stale bread crumbs. After 
this they begin to grow and prefer to 
roam around for a large part of their 
living. I would not advise anyone to 
try to raise turkeys in restricted quarters 
unless it was in acres of pasture land 
where they would hardly know it. Even 
then they would grow faster and look 
nicer if they knotv no bounds and could 
wander over hill and dale, coming home 
at evening only. d. j. lambert. 
Rhode Island. 
I cannot advise anyone J;o raise or 
rather try to raise turkeys and keep 
them confined. My experience in the 
business has been rather a long one, 
about 30 years, and I have always 
found that the chicken hen even when 
allowed to go as far as she pleased, 
did not give the little turkeys enough 
exercise to make them grow, even 
though some of them will live; but 
do not mature to anything like the 
proper size. 
Virginia. MRS. Harriet chumbley. 
RAISING TURKEYS IN CLOSE QUARTERS. 
A reader in southern New Jersey has 
about six hens and wishes to raise a few 
turkeys. Her hens are conflned to nar¬ 
row limits. Her plan is to hatch tuikejs 
under hens which she knows to he good 
mothers. This woman has no means of 
providing a range for the turkeys. Mould 
it be safe for her to attempt to raise such 
a flock in these limited quarters? Our 
own experience indicates that it is neces¬ 
sary to give the turkeys considerable range. 
I believe it to be utterly impossible to 
raise turkeys under these conditions, as 
our experience has been that unless 
range can be furnished raising them is 
pretty near an impossibility. 
New York. J. e. van alstyne. 
Judging from my personal experience 
with turkeys, I do not consider it worth 
while to undertake to raise them in 
close confinement. Whether the hatch¬ 
ing is done with hens or hen turkeys, 
they have always done much better when 
given plenty of range. It is sometimes 
a good plan to keep the young turkeys 
in small yards for the first week, espe¬ 
cially in stormy weather. 
New York. f. t. finch. 
In regard to the woman who wishes 
to raise turkeys in limited quarters tell 
her she would better not try it. It has 
been my personal observation that they 
fail every time. It is a turkey’s nature 
to range. The Bronze are much worse 
than the Holland. The woman would 
better continue with her chickens. 
New York. mrs. e. j. rider. 
It may be possible to raise a poult up 
to six weeks in confinement or small 
Lime on Meadow. 
R. C. M., Fredotiia, N. Y .—Would you 
consider that there would be enough good 
obtained from an application of lime on a 
newly seeded meadow to make it pay, hav- 
ing neglected to get it on when seeded? 
I have seen an account of an experiment 
which claimed that lime went down very 
little. Which would you consider better, 
carbonate or burnt lime? Would you ad¬ 
vise applying in Spring on meadow where 
manure had been broadcast during the 
Winter? 
Ans.— The returns from this will be 
slow, but we think the lime will finally 
pay. We have never obtained really 
good results except when the lime is 
thoroughly worked into the soil.. From 
choice we should use burned lime for 
this purpose. We should not want to 
use the lime and manure together on 
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