The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
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THE  HENYARD 
Ipecac  Treatment  for  Turkeys 
Your  publication  of  the  new  ipecac 
treatment  gave  me  courage  to  buy  tur¬ 
key  eggs  from  one  of  your  good  adver¬ 
tisers.  Some  of  my  Barred  Rocks  acted 
badly  on  the  nests,  cutting  down  the 
hatch,  but  I  raised  two-thirds  of  all 
that  came  out  of  the  shell. 
This  past  season  35  turkeys  were 
hatched  from  40  eggs,  and  with  their 
Rarred  Rock  mothers  were  given  large 
wired  pens,  moved  every  day  to  new 
grass  ground,  treated  carefully  for  lice, 
given  gravel,  diversified  feed  and  sour 
milk,  and  handled  according  to  Gov¬ 
ernment  Bulletin,  with  ipecac  prevent¬ 
ive  treatment,  as  directed  in  The  R. 
N.-Y.  The  powdered  form  in  the  dry 
mash  seemed  to  have  no  effect  what¬ 
ever,  and  the  birds  refused  drinking 
water  with  the  liquid  ipecac  addition, 
so  that  from  the  time  they  commenced 
to  grow  their  big  wing  feathers  they 
began  to  droop,  one  or  two  at  a  time. 
At  the  first  indications  of  illness  they 
were  removed  from  the  pens  and  given 
special  treatment  of  ipecac  dropped  in 
a  teaspoon  of  water,  as  directed. 
While  this  individual  care  seemed  to 
check  the  disease,  the  end  was  the 
same,  death  finally  coming  in  a  week 
or  so,  instead  of  a  day  or  two,  without 
the  ipecac. 
It  was  pitiful  to  lose  the  little  fel¬ 
lows  so.  therefore  in  desperation,  since 
the  birds  have  become  larger  grown, 
they  have  been  getting  more  than  dou¬ 
ble  the  amount  of  medicine.  Wine  of 
ipecac  has  been  given  in  much  stronger 
solution  and  in  larger  doses,  with  the 
extremely  gratifying  result  that  with 
this  method  every  sick  bird  has  been 
brought  back  to  health  and  are  now 
running  again  with  the  flock.  Yellow 
droppings  have  proved  a  sure  indica¬ 
tion  of  the  disease,  about  24  hours  af¬ 
ter  the  bird  shows  drooping  inactivity. 
A  dose  of  castor  oil  in  the  very  early 
stages  to  start  has  seemed  to  help  in 
solne  instances. 
Turkey  raising  in  this  section  of  the 
country  is  generally  regarded  a  thing  of 
the  past,  and  the  only  successful  breeder 
hereabouts  is  on  an  isolated  hill  farm, 
raising  his  birds  with  turkey  mothers 
running  almost  wild,  giving  one  feed  a 
day  in  the  barnyard.  However,  if  my 
heavier  doses  of  the  stronger  solution  of 
wine  of  ipecac  carry  my  turkeys  through 
the  Winter  in  good  shape,  I  shall  be 
tempted  to  make  another  try  with  my 
Barred  Rock  hens  for  mothers  another 
coming  season.  c.  b.  d. 
Maine. 
Poultry-feeding  Questions 
How  much  wet  mash  ought  laying  pul¬ 
lets  to  have  at-  this  time?  How  many 
pounds  daily  per  100  birds?  Is  it  not 
superfluous  to  give  to  almost  mature  cock¬ 
erels  wet  mash?  Is  frozen  water  (ice) 
really  injurious  to  hens,  and  why?  Is 
v frozen  cabbage  injurious  to  hens,  and,  if 
so,  how  does  it  affect  their  health?  How 
much  grain  should  be  fed  to  laying  pul¬ 
lets  on  a  plant  where  there  is  no  elec¬ 
tricity,  in  December,  January,  February 
and  March?  What  sickness  is  it,  when 
a  hen  which  is  sitting  almost  motionless 
on  the  floor,  has  the  head  almost  turned 
up,  the  eyes  mostly  shut,  and  is  moving 
the  head  slightly  up  and  down,  as  if  she 
had  something  in  the  throat  or  in  the 
crop?  A.  F. 
New  York. 
It  is  unnecessary  to  give  cockerels  wet 
mash  at  any  other  time  than  when  they 
are  being  fattened  for  market.  Laying 
hens  and  pullets  should  be  fed  all  that 
they  will  eat.  They  should  consume 
whole  grain  and  dry  mash  in  about  the 
proportions  of  three  parts  grain  to  two 
parts  mash,  except  when  laying  heavily, 
when  proportions!,  always  by  weight, 
will  be  about  the  same.  As  the  season 
draws  to  its  close,  egg  production  may  be 
maintained  by  adding  one  feeding  daily 
of  moist  mash  to  the  dry  feed.  So  few 
flocks  are  fed  nowadays  upon  wet 
mashes  that  all  computations  are  based 
upon  dry  foods.  The  same  amount  of  dry 
mash  may  be  fed  moistened,  of  course, 
if  it  is  preferred  to  feed  it  in  that  way. 
Fowls  will  eat  about  eight  or  nine  quarts 
of  whole  grain  per  100  in  the  midwinter 
months  and,  as  said,  should  consume 
about  an  equal  amount,  or  a  little  less,  of 
mash,  by  weight.  But  regulate  quantities 
by  appetites,  rather  than  by  weights. 
Frozen  water  and  frozen  cabbages  re¬ 
quire  an  expenditure  of  animal  heat  in 
preparing  them  for  body  use  that  might 
better  be  conserved.  Otherwise,  I  do 
not  know  that  they  are  directly  harmful. 
Vegetables  that  are  alternately  frozen  and 
thawed  soon  deteriorate,  however,  and  if 
frozen  should  be  kept  frozen  until  thawed 
and  fed. 
The  use  of  artificial  lights  affects  feed¬ 
ing  only  by  so  lengthening  the  day  that 
the  fowls  will  eat  more.  This  stimulates 
production.  With  a  short  night,  there  is 
no  long  fast  before  breakfast.  In  either 
case,  feed  *all  that  will  be  eaten. 
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