The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-12-08
That Sick Turkey.

BgoSh here's two red ears.
Edwin L. Sabin in Lesies Weekly.
That Sick Turkey.
Everyone who raises turkeys knows
the annoyance of finding occasionally al,
ailing bird in a flock of turkeys nearly
ready to market. The care and watch
ing incident to their early life is past and
! Oh" naturally hopco TO bring the part of
the flock that has survived the peris Of
infancy to a profitable market But
where flock is the range. as grown
birds will be. they are more or less ex-
posed to indigestion or colds and unless
they are properly cared for loss is GER
tain. Now. our poultry guides very
! explicit in their directions regarding the
care Of young poultry. but as to the all
mcnts of grown turkeys. they are silent.
They often give SOmp elaborate remedy
for cholera; usually something that one
cannot use unless they have drug store
right at hand: but d simple remedy that
can be found easily and kept always on
hand. is hard to find. not so much be-
| cause such u remedy is hard to find.
because Of the difficulty to know what is
the trouble i'll order to apply the proper
remedy. Now. the circulatory and dige~-
tive organisms Of the turkey are quite
similar to those of the human species:
enough 50. at any rate. that similar
causes will produce like effects. as for
come wet and chilled. we find that We
have taken cold, which means that the
surface Of the body has been chilled. and
the digestive functions impaired. with
possibly. local rongestinns and fever. \
simple laxative that will stimulate dige>-
ton and d tonic following. will usually
restore the tone of the system. and
| say our Geld is broken up. Now. andy
the same treatment to your turkeys and
see what will be the result How: Well,
| Ill t. II you my experience | had very
fine young gcbblcr. that l valued very
highly. My breeding pen was newly or
| ganized. and for fear of loss. was at
night carefully shut up in an old barn.
But when the weather grew warmer.
| their instincts led them to select out-Of-
door rUcSt>. The very first time the big
gcbbler Slent out there came up Il heavy
| shower and he was thoroughly wet. H
began to droop. he stood around in a
stupid sort Of way or slept and ga!e.d:
| then he began to show signs of indige>-
ticn. At first | said. "cholera. and BUN
| died him off to SeclnSion. But never
having had cholera among any of my
birds. l did not like to think that the
dreaded disease had come to us: 81 be-.
gan 20 think. That bird had just taken
a hard cold from exposure to the storm.
| New. III treat him as | would myself
So l soaked a hit of bread and made with
it some uuinine pills. which l gave him
| three times Il day for two days. and then
ollct a day on the third day. He speed
lily recovered. Since that experience |
| have used 1-:train uuinine pills. being
| less trouble and mere exact. If | find
| enc OF my flock dropping around. | lay
hands On him and put Il pill down his
throat, ard fellow UP tht trcatffHHi9efntt as
long as may Ee necessary. Sometimes.
},,,l ft,.,&
| 4 laxative pill that will stimulate the
liver is Il great help. Since l adopted
this course of treatment | have lost no
turkeys, save enc that | did not care for
promptly enough. N.Y. neighlor>, ton.
have tried this plan with good success.
say that quinne pills are a sovereign
remedy for all the ills that turkcv-tesh
is heir to. But do say. study your
birds and treat their ailments just as You
would treat yourself or ynnr child undo:
similar circunlStanceS.-MrS J. Burli$nn
in the Practical Farmer.
Pumpkins for Winter Food.
Jutiiciously planted in the rorntield. Il
crop of pumpkins can be raised as sort
of double crop that will make most
excellent food for stock in winter. The
value of root crops is we'll known i'll help
ing to regulate the bowels of the stock
when fed heavily on grain in winter.
Pumpkins come under this same class.
and they should be fed for about the
same purpose. Nature seems to have
designed the pumpkins for the corntield:
for one can raise just enough to feed
with the crop of corn produced on the
same land. In addition to this the crop
of pumpkins furnish excellent food for
chickens. 1t was better for the stock t"
have the seeds removed. and it is better
for he |frx- fn how no nod
ground or broken. The feeding of pump
kins will largely decide their merits. To
let the stock eat them in the field is i
great mistake. Gather them all for viii
ter food. and wait until other Succulent
fmd has disappeared. Then commence
to feed the pumpkins gradually; increaS-
Ing the quantity until the full diet is
reached. One large pumpkin. or two
small ones. per day. for each animal is a
liberal diet. and sufficient to keep the SyS-
TEN in excellent condition. They should
not he fed in large pieces at all. for there
is danger of the cows getting choked
with big lump. Cows actually break
off and loosen their teeth trying to break
up pumpkins fed to them in large pieces.
1t is no difficult work to break the pump
kinS up and then chop them fine with Il
sharp spade. Put them in Il wooden tub.
and in il few minutes a free use "f TIL"
| spade will reduce them to small pieces.
which the COWS can eat with relish.
| When first broken open scoop out all Of
the inside part. thus removing the seeds
which sometimes prove dangerous to the
COWS. Put the seeds and pulp in which
they are buried into sausage grinder.
and grind them up into small pieces.
The seeds will thus all he crushed. so
that the chickens can eat them with
out danger. They will also eat the pulp
itself. This. practice is certainly recon-
mended by the chickens. which enjoy the
feast, and look forward to the ground
pumpkin seeds every day. Every part
of the pumpkin is thus utilized. and one
can obtain winters supply of good food
for both stock and chickens from the
cornfeld without much extra cost for
labor. Those who do not plant pumpkin
seeds freely in the cornfeld lose far more
than they realize, and miss chance to
get double profit from the land.-W. +.
Farmer in American Cultivator,