The Bemidji pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami County, Minn.) 1896-1917, 1901-10-03
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR
Il RURAL READERS.
How Successful Farmers Operate This
Department OF the Farm--A Few
Hints rs to the Care OF Live stock
and Poultry.
some Hin = On Turkeys.

From the Farmers Review: After the
red comes, usually when they are eight
or ten weeks old, it Is not necessary TO
flight lice upon them again II you Keep
their roosting place clean. II Is best
to fix roosts under shed. under trees.
or even In the open, and remove their
coops after they are feathered out, TOR
impure air and overcroWding In their
roosting quarters always results dlsas-
trously. Let the most Of their food pc
given after they outgrow the bread
period and now 1t will do no harm to
allow them to eat all they want Y they
have considerable Of a run, for they
are naturally great bug-eaters ana lot
ayers. SO the feed you give Will help %
make quick growth.
Never neglect to provide Glen water
in clean vessels for them to drink; i
you do not they will either drink foul
water, or wander off in search q
water. Poults will gang together and lv
will follow after any hen that VIII
cluck and not fight them. We had one y,
4old chicken hen that we named the
turkey hen" for she raised two gangs
CT turkeys each year. Towards fall she
would have the whole gang OF turks
after her. After she had brought her
second clutch through babyhood untll
we sold them. They would even Try.
to stick their heads under her While on
the roOst. E3
M 1t is hardly possible to get turks 20
#fatten through the hot weather, 1 put
the. first frosty nights seem to sharpen -
their appetites and then they eat greed
lily. We feed mature shelled corn Tor
six weeks before sale day, aiming 60
give all they will eat three times day.
If they seem droopy after babyhood
give them feed of curds made plack
with pepper and thick with choppeo
onion tops some morning. ibis VIII
nearly always straighten out their
dumps If 1t does not put q quart OF q
good wood ashes In two gallons q
water and allow them to drink OF II.
This often stops disease that greatly
resembles cholera, but IL they still con-
5tinue droopy quarantine the worst o q =
and strive by added cleanliness g
prevent the well ones becoming droopy.
We 10 OF docto- much, excepfing Tor
symptoms Of roup and bowel trouble.
for we think cleanliness, wholesome
food, grit and few lice, or none at al,
are the best things to have In the way
OF medicine.
Il The first year we killed several ID
our ignorance by using coal oil in their
sroost coops, and by our crowd!ng. we !:
soon discovered It simply will not 40
to use strong fumes OF any sort IN
their coops, nor to overcrowd, nor TO
put grease on them.
Sg Last summer our neighbor told us
she found lice on her poults that morn q a..
ing, and that she promptly creased
them little with lard. We told her
her poults would be most sure to Ole,
and in few days she said some We're
already dead, the others had the dumps
and finally they did all die that she
creased. But what can do for lice!
use insect powder" It didn't XIII
them when she had used it. Well, then,
it wasn't fresh. Get good, either by
sending to headquarters or by buying
Of a reliable druggist. Emma Clear
waters.