The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-07-19
What to Feed Turkeys,

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The food for young turkeys, like all
other young poultry, should be thorough
~ cooked after given in Il crumbly CON
| dltlan. Feed little and often the first
! two weeks. Turkeys have small crops,
but they digest their food rapidly Give
a. variety Turkeys soon tire of any
| kind OF food If given too Often and will
refuse to eat it. 1t will not do to let
| them go hungry. Hunger causes indi-
! gestion, and Indigestion will produce
! bowel trouble
Eggs are Il natural food for all young
poultry, but too much hard boiled egg
will cause bowel trouble; it is Il better
| plan to moisten their food with raw egg
once or twice day, for Il week or ten
parts OF the oatmeal, cornmenl and bran
or mlddlings; add II little salt and IL table
| spoonful of bone meal one day and IL
| little chopped meat the next. Chop,pd
onions, cabbage or other garden green's
should be given as soon as they will
| eat them. Bone meal, meat and vege-
| tables, are necessary for the health and
growth of young turkeys. They feather
earlier than any >otEer fowl and this de-
mand on the system must be supplied
| by Judicious feeding. Cooked potatoes
and rio" are excellent and will he p make
up a variety. When week or ten days
| old begin to teach them to eat grain,
either ground or whole. AS soon as they
| are given range the number of meals
| per day may be gradually reduced
Farm, Stock and Home.
Poultry Notes.
Don't trust the hired man or boy to
look after the chickens. They will neg
lect them. If you want the poultry at
| tended to properly do it Yourself
DO not let the chicks roost on small
| roosts lille they are young. If they
| roost before their breasts become firm
| and hardened they will be sure to have
crooked brrastboncs.
Only a careful account will tell how
many groceries the egg supply purchases
| on the farm. Keep an account for q
| while and then the hens will be more
! appreciated.
Experience is a great school in poultry
raising, and the mistake are guide-posts
! to keep everyone in line. Get all the
experience you can and avoid making
| the same mistakes twice, and then you
will be on the road to profitable sue
cess.
If the fowls are confined do not fail
| to give them supply of grass or other
| green stuff. They will appreciate it if
! fresh every morning. If you have never
tried it you will be surprised ut the
| amount fifty hens will eat day.
Now is Il good time to fumigatc the hen
house by c:osing the house and burning
sulphur within. Use coal oil freely about
| all the perchcs, nests and creviccs, and
spread lime and ashes about the house
| and in the nests
At this season of the year, when there
| is an unlimited range, care will be neces-
| sary to observe, by liberal feeders, not to
overfeed the fowls. There will be little
or no danger of overlooking the chicks.
as it takes all they can get to furnish
| them bone, muscle. feathers and flesh.
The succp$; of many Il man in the poul-
| try business, both commercially and
| from fanciers standpoint in show rec
| ords, is due to women, who get no credit.
They have been the power behind the
throne many a time when men have re-
| ceived the honors