The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-10-05
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR
RURAL READERS.
How Successful Farmers operate This
Department of tho Farm-A Few
Hints Is to the Care Of Live Stock
and Poultry.
Bonn. Hints ON Turkeys.

Fromthe Farmers Review: After the
red comes, usually when they are eight
or ten weeks old, it is not necessary to
fight lice upon them again If you keep
their roosting place clean. 1t Is best
to fix roosts under a shed, under trees,
or even in the open, and remove their
coops after they are feathered out, Tor
impure air and o~vercrowding n their
roosting quarters always results dlsas-
trously. Let the most of their 1000 De
given after they outgrow the bread
period and now it will do no harm to
allow them to eat all they want II they
have considerable Of a run, Tor tney
are naturally great bug-eaters n Tor
ayers, SO the feed you give Will nell 70
make quick growth.
Never neglect to provide Glen water
III clean vessels for them to drink; II
you do not they will either drink 1oul
water, or wander of in search OF
water. Poults will gang together and
will follow after any hen that Will
cluck and not fight them. We had one
old chicken hen that we named the
turkey hen," for she raised two gangs
Ct turkeys each year. Towards tall u
would have the whole gang of turks
after her. After she had brought ner
second clutch through babyhood until
we sold them. They would even try
to stick their heads under her While on
the roost.
1t is hardly possible to get turks to
fatten through the hot weather, u
the first frosty nights seem to sharpen
their appetites and then they eat creed
lily. We feed mature shelled corn Tor
six weeks before sale day, aiming TO
give all they will eat three times q day.
II they seem droopy after babyhooo'
give them a feed of curds made black
with pepper and thick with chopped
onion tops some morning. This will
nearly always straighten out their
dumps. If it does not put a quart OF
good wood ashes in two gallons OF
water and allow them to drink OF It.
This often stops disease that greatly
resembles cholera, but If they still con-
tinue droopy quarantine the worst ones
and strive by added cleanliness TO
prevent the we'll ones becoming droopy.
We 10 OF docto. much, excepting for
symptoms Of roup and bowel trouble
for we think cleanliness, wholesome
food, grit and few lice, or none at all,
are the best things to have In b way
If medicine.
The first year we killed several IN
our ignorance by using coal oil In their
roost coops, and by our crowding. 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.
Last summer our neighbor told us
she found lice on her poults that morn
ing, and that she promptly creased
them a little with lard. We told her
her poults would be most sure to die,
and in a few days she said some were
already dead, the others had the dumps
and finally they did all die that she
creased. But what a I do for lice!
use insect powder" It didn't Kill
them when she had used 1t. Well, then,
1t wasn't fresh. Get good. either by
sending to headquarters or by buying
of a reliable druggist.-Emma Clear
waters.