The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-04-04
Points About Essssny Turkeys.
respondent Farm and Home.

Correspondent Farm and Home.
The n thing that has paid the past
year is turkeys. They had a quick sale
at Thanksgiving for 20 cents a pound,
and at Christmas for 81 to % cents,
and the farmers could have had 25 cents.
ut the last season il, they had known as
much about the market three days be-
fore Christmas as they did Ilree days
after. And this price is not exception
al. The average for good New England
turkeys for the last twenty years, I be-
lieve, will exceed Is cents a pound. if
it does not reach 20cents.
If farmer has reasonable "luck"-
that's. if h has as geodluck as generally
comes of intelligentscare-he can make
1000 pounds of turkey meat for 500
easy, and sell the same fox 5000, OF,
putting it better: fieck of 100
turkeys will not cost him grain fed out,
over S75. if they are killed before
Thanksgiving, and they ought to average
twelve pounds each, which makes 1900
pounds in all, and to sell for 20 eenS q
pound, Oh S240. l have raised turkess
for many years, most years with fair
success, and, whatever the success,
they have always been the best paying
production of the farm.
This is my plan: Keep overt ten hens.
and a tom; the hens the best birds In
the fall flock; part old and part young.
Old hens of good habits are to be pre-.
ferred. Feed lightly all winter. About
March ] increase the feed and provide
places for their nests near the, house.
WhenNthey begin to lay be careful that
the eggs do not get chilled. Do allyou.
can to get your turkeys to setting rs
early as possible. Early turkeys are.
twice as likely to live as late ones.
When the young come off put them in
little board pens in a warm place for a
week or more. feeding them six or eight
times a day with coarse meal and chop
ped h~ard-boiled eggs, mixed with water,
or. what is better, our milk. As soon
as they are strong enough give thema
pasture range at first, then turn
them into o meadow, but
by all means feed them at noon, and to
this end drive them up to the house.
This will get them accustomed to COM
ing up for their dinner. and so they will
not go far away from home. See that
they are always fully fed and safely
housed at night, SO thatfoxes and skunks
Will not and cannot destroy them.
Make it a matter of thought to see that
your turkeys are safe all summer. Be
gin to fatten in September and kill for
Thanksgiving, and You will be able to,
put n few dollars in, some near savings
bank which you may honestly call nay
for your care and work and profit in the
grain fed. This business cannot be
overdone, andI advise farmers to put a
few dollars into turkeys for next season
(f they can find them at once.
The Choice ora Sire.
National Live Stock Journal.
Ii, on careful and sufficient trial,
your bull proves a poor breeder, or
even a very irregular breeder, why
there's an end o it," and the only
course open to a wiaeawake breeder is
to discard him forthwith, without ctsiAT
mony Or regard to pedigree. Dostys
hesitate till he has dona irreparal'
damage to your herd. Actic 4
of this sort to be wortl, any
thing. must be prompt. On the other
hand, don't be too easily influenced by
q few cases of extreme badprodnce from
particular cows. / doubt if any herd
could be gotten together in which some
cows would not breed peculiarly badly
to any given bull; cows, too, whose pro-
duce by other sires would be fine. New
er breed such cows back to that bull, if
after q fair trial you obtain that result,
and another bull chn be reached. Your
sire again may possess the power of
stamping his own image on his get to a
very marked extent. This p-epotency
is, %ofcourse, avery valuable quality, one
without which you can scarcely have u
great sire. But, at the same time,
you not infrequently had a sire quite
as useful in a herd that only enables the
dam to reproduce herself. These are
the two extremes, the normal being the
the admixture Of the qualities of sire
and dam. No doubt this, too, is the
most desirable, but either of the other
cases may be made to prove equally or
even more valuable in a herd, it being
the simpler case; Just as an equation Of