Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-31

persistent, thorough use OIL the HedVy
disk harrow, which chops the very life
out of the quack grass roots. 1t is a
hard task, but If once thoroughly done,
that is the end of the hated quaek
grass.
Farms Must Furnish the Beef.
The big ranges are following the buff
falo and the Indians. Actual settlers
are putting the range caltle.nen out or
business or into genuine ranching at
Belle Fourche. S. ID. Harris Franklin
& Co. the heaviest owners of cattle on
the northwestern range, are going to
close out and retire from the business,
owing to the congested condition of the
range. Harris Franklin, of Deadwood,
general manager says everything fit
for market will be shipped this year for
beef. and the stock will be sent
down into Nebraska, where the COM
pany is acquiring a large tract of land,
intending to conduct its business in the
future by pasturing during summer
and feeding during the severe winter
storms. Next year will see the last of
the company's thousands of cattle on
these ranges moved out.
The reas son for this is that the coun-
try is filing with small cattle owners,
sheep men and farmers. These men
are fencing their land, cutting off much
of the water. and it is claimed that
much loss is suffered by range cattle,
owing to being chased and driven by
the dogs and hired men of the farmers
and others, so that between them and
the wolves the profit is greatly reduced
Under the existing circumstances a
hard winter would entail frightful loss
to heavy cattlemen, and Mr.. Franklin
says his company has decided to get
out as quickly as possible. 1t began
closing out last season by shipping
very closely, and the shipping will be
much closer this summer The COM
pany's herds will be greatly. reduced,
more limited scale. altho more salts
factory and secure. TIE day of the
cattle kings is nearly over and the
farms must furnish the beef supply in
the future.
If the condition turnout the state is
the same as in some localities that
have been canvassed, the scarcity of
turkeys this season will be greater than
last. Those who give particular at
tention to the culture of poultry tell a
story that reveals a state that is dis
maying to the lovers of turkey. Last
year the wet weather cut short the tur-
key crop and the birds were almost
impossible to get at any price. On
Thanksgiving day they were quoted at
is to 20 cents per pound in the local
market. The rains came this season
when the birds were small, but large
enough to travel in the wet grass and
chilly nights and days.
OF all domestic fowls the turkey is
the hardest to raise; but when once
grown there is no fowl more vigorous
and hardy or more profitable. Young
turkeys until they are a few weeks Old,
require constant attention, but some
times they will die without any appar-
ent cause. Always select good stock
to breed from. The mammoth bronze
are the best as they are the largest and
the hardest. Turkeys should have ac-
cess to large prairie, as it is the most
natural place for them, and their diet
consists principally of insects which
are found on the prairie.
A particularly successful turkey
raiser gives the following rules for the
guidance of others: The gobhler and
hen should never be related. In setting
use chicken hens, placing nine eggs
under each hen. but if you have plenty
of turkeys, it would be better to set the
turkey hens, as they rear their young
much better A next on the ground is
preferable, but if not convenient, place
three or four inches of dirt in the nest
under the hay. Smoking tobacco, If
sprinl1led in the nest, will prevent the
intrusion of lice. Sprinkle the eggs
once in two Weeks with warm water.
Before Matching and after Matching
grease the hen we'll with melted lard or
dust with insect powder, as lice are
very destructive to young turkeys.
When the turkeys are twenty-four
hours old remove them from the nest
and If the weather be warm and
bright, place them in a grass plot; but
if not, they must be put in a perfectly
dry place.
For the first two or three weeks they
should be fed five times daily. Feed
curd made from sour milk with very
little black pepper, or bread soaked in
sweet milk. mixed with hard boiled
eggs.
1t is asserted by some that they have
no success in feeding boiled eggs, as
they make them the turkeys) dainty,
and they would eat nothing else, but
the writer has never found it so. Egg
shells occasionally mixed with their
food will prevent hard crop.
Turkeys should have plenty of fresh
water and milk, either sweet or sour.
Give them plenty of gravel with ground
or burned bones. Chopped grain, either
wheat or corn, is very good ration as
soon as they will eat it.
Watch the flock closely for lice, and
if any are found grease them with an
equal quantity of melted lard and coal
oil. -Four applications during the seas
on is usually sufficient. If any of the
turkeys become droopy, give ball of
black pepper and lard.
They should never be allowed to gel
wet or to run in the grass before the
dew is thoroughly off.
AS they grow older all they need is
plenty of grain. grit pnd water and
large range.
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