Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-11-14
The Raising of Turkeys

can find, then coming to the house
for a drink and starting out for the
larger range for the day.
Turning Out On Range.
"At first when turned out on
range, fed them at night as an in
ducement to come home early, but
after the habit is established, think
1t better for their health not to feed
them, as they come home with full
crops and any more crowded inta
the digestive organs impairs them.
AS a general thing everybody and
everything eats too much. So We
are always hearing the complaints
Of stomach trouble in the human
family. Give the stomach a rest and
1t will last as long as the rest Of the
body. AS no one has been found
smart enough to take out the old
stomach and put in new one, bet
ter go slow and treat the one that
was adjusted to your human mechan-
ism fairly well and try to make it
last as long as the rest of the ma
chinery.
with our turkeys, II we intero-
gate Nature and ask what Nature
would give at this season to her
wild turkeys and follow her direc-
tions as closely as possible, we shall
do well. The fact is that the closer
we can initiate Nature In our care
Of all our feathered friends, the
more successful shall we be. OF
course, we cannot supply to our do
nestle fowls the wild seeds, berries
and nuts, but we, knowing their
food value, can substitute for the
insects and wild animal food clean,
well-made cottage cheese, clabbe7
milk or buttermilk, skimmilk, meat
(elther ray or cooked. We can
give green alfalfa or soaked alfalfa
hay, with grain of some kind. We
can leave a nice field Of wheat to be
picked and harvested by our flock
of turkeys; we can let them CLEAN in
our olive yards and even pick up
some walnuts If we have not acorns
or other wild nuts for them.
Feed.
"This may be new doctrine tc
many, but II was instilled into me
in my childhood, for l was never
allowed to bring wild creatures OF
birds into captivity until l had stu
died in the animal or bird encyclo
pedia the life history Of each cap
tive with the necessary food, and
knew the best substitute for the
wild food. | attribute my great sue.
cess with chickens and turkeys Ia
this early training and to the con.
slant turning to Nature when l was
In any doubt.
"For turkeys that are on limited
range that may be bare Of insects
nuts and berries, we shall have tC
assist Nature and substitute for hel
fare the best thing that we can
find, and undoubtedly that is good
hard corn year old, so as to be
thoroughly ripe and dry, for there
Is something in new corn that is api
to disagree with turkeys.
"If at the same time the turkey
can be in an olive yard, whese they
can pick up few olives that are
now falling or even help themselves
to some on the branches, this, with
some corn at night, will put them
in fine market condition and Is the
only fattenlng they will need,
Little Confinement.
Turkeys do not like to be in con
flnement and try to fatten then
without conflnlng them as much az
possible They will also fatten quick
ly II they can be in sweet apple
orchard, for they are very fond oI
sweet apples. Turkeys that have moi
the advantage OF freedom or the
wild nuts and spicy berries can be
successfully fattened in a yard, My
way Is: | take two quarts Of corn
and one quart OF barley, soak over
night, and in the morning put OIL
the stove to boil, letting II cook
slowly until II begins to soften, then