The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
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The  Henyard 
A  Successful  Turkey  Raiser 
The  accompanying  picture  shows  Mrs. 
George  G.  Bennett  of  Rhode  Island  and 
her  flock  of  White  Holland  turkeys.  She 
raised  130  turkeys  last  year,  losing  only 
six. 
Mrs.  Bennett  specializes  in  White  Hol¬ 
lands,  and  has  had  specimens  that  weighed 
40  lbs.  She  got  $1  a  pound  for  dressed 
turkeys,  and  last  year  one  dressed  weighed 
23  lbs.  and  sold  for  $23.  Many  farmers 
have  given  up  trying  to  raise  turkeys  in 
Rhode  Island,  but  Mrs.  Bennett  has  per¬ 
sisted  for  30  years,  and  has  become  well 
know  in  New  England  for  her  success. 
She  also  raises  chickens,  ducks  and 
guinea  hens.  One  year  she  raised  240. 
but  had  100  of  them  stolen.  Mrs.  Ben¬ 
nett  has  kindly  sent  me  a  statement  of 
her  method  of  raising  turkeys,  which.  I 
think,  is  well  worth  printing.  She  does 
not  use  the  ipecac  treatment,  but  gives 
oil  of  turpentine.  Something  seems  to 
be  necessary  to  prevent  the  development 
in  the  intestines  of  young  turkeys  of  coc- 
Do  not  overfeed  the  young  poults  the 
flrst  few  days,  but  after  that  give  them 
plenty  to  eat,  for  I  think  the  faster  they 
grow  the  less  trouble  there  is.  Take  good 
care  of  the  breeding  stock  ;  give  plenty  of 
mash  and  grains  to  keep  it  in  the  "best 
condition. 
Poultry  Matters  in  Massachusetts 
The  poultrymen  of  Plymouth  County, 
Mass.,  have  a  live  organization.  They 
recently  met  at  Halifax,  with  150  mem¬ 
bers  attending.  There  are  several  large 
questions  before  these  men  in  Southeast¬ 
ern  New  England.  One  is  the  problem  of 
stamping  out  the  white  diarrhoea  disease. 
It  is  now  understood  that  the  chief  source 
of  this  disease  is  in  the  hen.  Hens  that 
carry  the  disease  evidently  transmit  it 
through  the  eggs  to  the  chicks,  and  the 
plan  of  operation  is  to  test  as  many  hens 
as  possible  and  reject  those  which  show 
evidence  of  the  disease.  This  work  is 
being  carried  out  in  Massachusetts  on  a 
large  scale.  There  is  so  much  of  it  that 
the  ExperimenC'Htation  at  Amherst  is 
hardly  able  to  handle  it  all.  These 
Plymouth  County  men  are  thinking  of  es¬ 
tablishing  a  laboratory  of  their  own  so 
as  to  hasten  the  work  of  testing  the  hens. 
Mrs.  Bennett’s  Flock  of 
cidia,  or  0f  the  bacillus  of  blackhead. 
Given  that,  the  raising  of  turkeys  is  no 
more  difficult  than  raising  chickens.  Mrs. 
Bennett’s  method  follows. 
GEOEGE  A.  COSGKOVE. 
This  is  the  method  that  I  have  used  for 
a  great  many  years.  Gather  the  turkey 
eggs  daily  and  keep  in  a  moderately  warm 
place.  I  turn  them  over  every  two  or 
three  days  until  ready  to  set.  If  you  use 
common  barnyard  hens,  as  I  do,  for  moth¬ 
ers.  powder  them  well  when  you  set  them, 
and  two  or  three  days  before  the  eggs  are 
ready  to  hatch.  Do  not  feed  the  young 
poults  the  first  day  they  are  hatched. 
When  the  young  poults  are  well  off  the 
nest,  give  them  some  clean  dandelion 
leaves,  chopped  fine.  The  next  day  give 
hard-boiled  egg  and  shell,  chopped, 
cracker  crumbs  and  chopped  greens;  mix 
and  moisten  with  little  milk.  Continue 
this  for  two  or  three  days.  Give  a  little 
sour  milk  also.  Follow  this  diet  with  a 
cup  of  hominy  or  meal,  a  heaping  tea¬ 
spoon  beef  scraps  and  a  tablespoon  or 
more  fine  “baby”  grit;  scald  well  with 
boiling  water.  Add  cup  of  sour  milk,  not 
too  sour  at  first,  and  put  enough  wheat 
bran  in  this  mixture  to  make  it  light,  not 
sticky.  A  hard-boiled  egg  chopped  and 
added  to  the  mixture  often  helps  the 
poults  to  learn  to  eat  the  mixture  if  at 
first  they  do  not  take  to  it. 
As  the  turkeys  grow,  larger  quantities 
are  needed,  but  the  proportions  are  kept 
about  the  same.  Feed  five  times  daily 
until  the  birds  are  three  weeks  old,  then 
three  times.  I  use  the  above  mash  for 
my  turkeys  until  they  are  several  months 
old.  then  I  give  whole  oats  for  one  meal 
and  rolled  oats  are  thrown  out  for  them 
when  they  seem  to  want  something  be¬ 
tween  meals.  My  poults  are  usually  four 
months  old  before  I  give  them  whole  oats, 
and  I  give  no  corn  until  they  are  six 
months  old.  Keep  grit  and  sour  milk 
before  them  all  the  time.  I  give  very 
little  water. 
Look  between  the  wing  quills  for  lice. 
When  the  little  ones  are  a  week  old  lice 
may  be  found  on  them,  so  powder  the 
poults  and  the  hen  mother.  Do  this  once 
a  week  until  they  are  four  or  five  weeks 
old.  for  lice  will  surely  kill  them. 
Have  the  coops  raised  from  the  ground 
3  in.  to  insure  dry  floors.  Keep  houses 
well  cleaned  and  sprinkle  occasionally 
with  lime.  Do  not  allow  crowding  at 
night.  Keep  the  turkeys  away  from  the 
henyards  and  on  as  clean  ground  as  pos¬ 
sible. 
When  my  turkeys  are  three  weeks  old 
I  give  each  of  them  about  five  drops  of 
oil  of  turpentine.  I  put  it  in  a  little  of 
their  mash,  and  when  they  eat  that  I  give 
them  the  rest  of  their  breakfast.'  I  do 
this  once  a  week  until  they  are  three  or 
four  months  old. 
White  Holland  Turkeys 
Another  big  question  in  that  country 
is  the  matter  of  poultry  thieving.  Thou¬ 
sands  of  hens  have  been  stolen  in  the  last 
year  or  two,  and  these  poultrymen  are 
determined  to  put  an  end  to  this  crime. 
They  are  obtaining  State  laws  which  will 
help.  In  Massachusetts  larceny,  if  the 
value  of  the  article  taken  exceeds  $100. 
is  _  punishable  by  a  sentence  to  State 
prison  for  not  more  than  five  years,  or  a 
fine  of  not  more  than  $000  and  two  years 
in  jail.  These  Massachusetts  poultrvmen 
are  determined  to  push  that  law  to  the 
limit  and  land  as  many  of  these  hen 
thieves  as  possible  in  jail. 
Another  matter  which  interests  them 
is  what  is  known  as  the  “roaster  indus¬ 
try.”  This  means  the  production  of  a 
class  of  birds  just  large  enough  for  roast¬ 
ing  purposes.  There  is  a  great  demand 
for  this  type  of  bird  along  through  the 
seashore  districts.  Before  the  war  a  large 
business  was  done  in  producing  these 
roasters,  but  many  of  the  plants  have 
now  been  given  up.  These  growers  seem 
to  think  the  time  has  come  for  getting 
back  into  this  industry.  The  favorite  hen 
down  in  that  country  is  a  good-sized 
bird,  laying  a  brown  egg.  The  Leghorns 
are  not  so  popular,  since  the  Boston  mar¬ 
ket  puts  a  little  premium  on  brown  col¬ 
ored  eggs.  Hens  like  the  Rocks,  the 
Yvyandottes,  and  the  Reds  are  popular. 
The  suggestion  is  to  select  a  good  strain 
of  large  birds  for  breeders  and  cross  them 
with  light  Brahma  cockerels.  This  will 
produce  a  chicken  that  grows  very  fast 
and  responds  quickly  to  feeding,  thus 
making  a  good  roaster.  These  roaster 
birds  are  generally  hatched  in  the  Fall, 
so  as  to  bring  them  on  the  market  in 
good  season  for  the  Spring  trade. 
Vaccination  for  Poultry  Diseases 
We  are  having  considerable  trouble, 
and  have  lost  a  number  of  chickens 
through  roup,  chicken-pox  and  diphthe¬ 
ria.  We  treated  two  flocks  successfully ; 
still  have  one  pen  of  200  chickens  that 
have  these  diseases  worse  than  the  others, 
and  have  had  to  kill  20.  I  have  heard 
that  chickens  are  being  vaccinated,  which 
is  considerable  help  to  them,  and  puts 
them  on  the  road  to  good  health;  also  in¬ 
fluences  laying.  What  do  you  know  in 
regard  to  this  new  treatment? 
Middleville,  N.  J.  mrs.  h.  d.  g. 
We  have  had  some  very  enthusiastic 
reports  concerning  the  value  of  vaccina¬ 
tion  against  roup,  chicken-pox  and  diph¬ 
theria  and,  while  we  have  learned  to  dis¬ 
count  enthusiasm  over  new  remedies  to  a 
considerable  extent,  there  is  no  doubt 
that  excellent  results  appear  to  have 
been  obtained  from  the  use  of  mixed 
avian  bacterins.  If  in  trouble  with  these 
diseases,  we  should  certainly  try  this. 
M.  B.  D. 
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