The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-11-12
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
it 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 VIC
are always hearing the complaints
of stomach trouble in the human
family. Give the stomach rest and
it 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 a 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, if 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, clabber
milk or buttermilk, skimmilk, meat
(either 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 aeorns
or other wild nuts for them.
Feed.
This may be new doctrine to
,,,opy hut II uyoc ipctillad ipto m %
in my childhood, for l was never
allowed to bring wild creatures or
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 to
this early training and to the con-
slant turning to Nature when | was
in any doubt.
"For turkeys that are on limited
range that may be bare of insects,
nuts and berries, we shall have to
assist Nature and substitute for her
fare the best thing that we can
find, and undoubtedly that is good,
hard corn a year old, SO as to be
thoroughly ripe and dry. for there
is something in new corn that is APT
to disagree with turkeys.
''If at the same time the turkeys
can be in an olive yard, where 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 fattening they will need.
Little Confinement.
"Turkeys do not like to be in con-
'inement and | try to fatten them
without confining them as much as
possible. They will also fatten quick
v if they can be in sweet apple !
orchard, for they are very fond OF
sweet apples. Turkeys that have not
he advantage of freedom or the
Wild nuts and spicy berries can be
fattened in a yard. My
way is: take two quarts Of corn
nd one quart of barley, soak over
light, and in the morning put Oil
he stove to boil, letting it cook
lowly until it begins to soften, then
ct aside covered up until supper