Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-03-10
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
How Successful Farmers Operate This
Department of tho Fsrm-A Few
Hints ~ to the Care OF Live Stock
and Poultry.



The unInitlatcd often wonder and
ask why more farm wives do not raise
turkeys, and the thought intrudes
itself more forcibly on their minds
when they read of the Thanksgiving
and Xmas trade In turkeys. Turkeys
are such silly things when young and
seem to stand around waiting, even in
wiling disease and accidents that the
turkey raiser's path is decidedly thorny
and strewn with boulders.
year ago last November, after hear
Ing Of the neat sum that neighbor's
small flock of turks brought, we de-
cided to try our hand at turks, along
three good-sized. nice old hens and a
young tom in December, bought them
early, so they could get acquainted
with each other and their surround
ings. No amount of persuasion would
induce them to rest any place but up
In the boughs of the maple tree, and
we finally left them In peace and ceas-
ed trying to persuade. They began to
get restless near the middle of March,
and on the goth OF March we got the
hrst turkey egg. Ut is well to say
here that one of the hens wandered to
neighbors and he refused to give her
up, so we had but two hens to gather
eggs from. They were given free range,
which meant they had the run Of a
sixty-acre farm, forty acres of which
were woods, SO the finding OF their nest
was easier to talk about than to do.
To us 1t seemed they selected the
very poorest kind of brush heap for
a nest, but they probably knew what
they were doing. 1t was brush from
an oak tree, half way down the hill,
and II we had not seen the hen on the
nest We would never have looked there
for the nest. Both hens laid in the
same nest. and as the weather was |
freezing Of nights. the eggs were gath
cred every evening. Two or three hens |
eggs were placed in the nest after re-
moving the turks eggs. Both laid |
every day until the 18th of April, when
both wanted to sit. They were prompt
ly shut In a coop. and on the Goth
were released. In six days one began
laying in the same nest, and In two
more days the other began also in the
lame nest. They both laid with scarce
" . days miss. until the 23d of April,
when both wanted to sit again. They
we're again Jailed until the 9th, and
hen the fun began again. They did
not go to the old nest, and with all
'ur watching we failed to discover the
lest until the 18th OF June, when the
len was watched to her nest. and it
vas found In patch of tall rag weeds,
much nearer the house than the old
lest
The one hen was sitting and had
thirteen turkey eggs In The nest. These
Vere taken away and hens eggs given
Ter, the turkey eggs being placed un-
er chicken hen, and here was one
Mistake that will be explicitly stated
q another paper.
In few days the other hen went 20
ltting by the side Of the first one, and
he was given hens eggs. A shelter
boards being placed over the two :,
ems. All the turkey eggs were set un-
err chicken hens, and with the excep-
on OF the last clutch. every egg was
'rtile. Two turks got mashed in the
est. otherwise all were taken OF the ,
est as pert as could be, although !
,me of the eggs had been laid three J
eeks when set.
EMMA CLEARwATERS
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