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Show XHE ESIN Raising FARMER. Established 1924 Published 1st and 15tb of Each Month at Roosevelt, Utah. IJINTAHBA5raFAEO Loss From Without Turkeys this article Mr. Olsen low turkeys have bean coliau-eby the Nebraska lege of agriculture abiduttly iree from worms and other parasites and with no danger In tells d matter at Entered as second-clas- s Utah, office at Roosevelt, the post March of of act the under Congress 3. 1879. Official organ of the Uintah County Farm Bureau Office: Roosevelt Standard, Roosevelt, Utah. Telephone 30. 50c Subscription Price, one year George H. Harrison Violet Harrison.JBusiness Editor Manager !Two General Classes of Feeds for Stock blackhead, from whatever of every turkey that bane grower. At the Minnesota and stations other experiment been has method this same Tha successful. proved to be common belief that turkeys are wild and must be handled as nearly in line with conditions under which their wild ancestors lived is but a superstition. These tests and that show demonstrations domesticatare easily turkeys ed and can be raised successfully fa close confinement if you know how, and by this method the grower has absolute control of disease and There are two general classes of feeds. Corn, barley, wild hay and com fodder are fattening and energy supplying feeds, and are classed as feeds. carbohydrate Oats, wheat parasite infection. linseed oilmeal alfalfa jbran, hay and 'clover hay are growth producing and are classed as protein feeds. The calf needs protein materials to make growth, but one should be careRaising turkeys without loss from ful in supplying these not to use feeds disease, coyotes, or other animals which are too bulky. If the calf has sounds good; but can it be done? to eat a large amount of oats to get It can. At least the poultry dethe growth material it needs then it partment of the Nebraska college will not be able to eat enough com of agriculture raised more than ('or barley to put on the fat or finish 500 young turkeys last year in desired. close confinement on a very limitCalves fed at the South Dakota ex- - !ed brought ed. These turkeys periment station which received one-- ; more , than $2,500 when sold shorttenth oats in their ration did not before Thanksgiving. The two make as rapid gains or develop as ly years 700 turkeys were previous much finish as calves which got raised the same method. by com and linseed oilmeal without the was There practically no loss cats. It will be a good practice gradfrom disease and had there been ually to take the oats out of the ra-- ! tion after the first two or three weeks coyotes or other animals they would ' have had slim chance of getting and use a small amount of linseed any of the turkeys. How was this instead. were The turkeys accomplished? raised in high fenced, graveled lots Feeding Sweet Milk 20x100 feet in size. The laying All of the successful growing rations flock as well as the poults were (found at the Wisconsin station have raised in lots Of this kind. Most .been built around milk, Professor of the poults were kept in their Hal pin says. He prefers feeding the yards until sold just before Thanks.milk In the sweet form, though many giving. A few were moved to small others differ with him. The exper- alfalfa plots after they were eight iments at Wisconsin indicate that weeks old. chicks will consume more sweet milk The outstanding thing about this than sour and will do better on it, he method is the fact that there is says. The fact that sweet milk put no loss from blackhead. There is out in the morning may be sour by no danger of loss from coyotes no cause should be for night suspicion either. or alarm. This is the method used. In the 5 first place these principles must be Butter for New York oil-Ime- al As the youn turkeys never have,. or a chance of seeing a turkey much not chicken hen there is infested danger of their becoming a j all with lice. Of course they watched very carefully for this pest. The final step of securing saniof tation is where the new rndh-raising turkeys differs radically from the old system. The poults are never allowed to run out on the open range where they can range worm infested over germ laden, out into are turned ground. They small, clean graveled yards 20x100 feet in size for each brooder house. Here they are kept until ready for market. 1 Graveled Yards Always Clean The rawer coarse gravel has been laid to a depth of six to eight inches. This gives ample opportunity for drainage and it is dry. It never always clean and seems to become covered with the droppings. It looks clean even when the poults become large and the yards begin to look crowded. There is ample room if results count. In one lot of 128 turkeys only ten were lost the entire season. In two lots every bird was raised to maturity. It is such results that make one enthusiastic for this system of raising turkeys. Sanitation then, is the first important step in raising turkeys without loss from disease. Clean yards and clean houses with clean water and clean food hoppers are its essential factors. With these conditions loss from disease seems Impossible. Eation Must Ee Balanced Sanitation, important as it is, however, is not the only thing necessary. The balanced ration used has a lot to do with success in raising turkeys with such slight loss. The young turkeys when de- prived of their natural food as green feeds, grasshoppers and other insects, must be supplied with feeds that take their place. For green feed alfalfa is cut and chopped for them. The place of insects is taken by meat and bone1 meal which is Bisea the 500 turkeys were kept on me graveled lots until they were sold The just before Thanksgiving. one were lot this rein turkeys moved to a small alfalfa plot when they were eight weeks old. These turkeys made slightly faster growth during the summer. At market time they weighed more than 20 pounos while the ones raised on gravel slightly less than eighteen pounds each. Turkeys Away From Chickens Great care is taken that no chickens get into the turkey lots. Chickens are not even aUowed in yards next to the turkey pens, an alley way running between, the chicken and turkey yards. It has been found that chickens carry the black head germ and will transmit it to turkeys if allowed to mingle with them. The breeding flock of thirty-fiv- e hird3 at the College poultry farm is also kept on a graveled lot 20x100 feet. They have a laying house very much like the house used for the chickens. A little more open front is provided than for the I chickens. The flock is getting a good balanced ration. A laying mash co20 per cent meat ntaining about and bone meal is feed in mash hoppers. They also get what yellow corn they will clean up twice a day in cold weather and once a day in warm weather. The laying mash is made up of yellow cracked corn, meat and bone meal, shorts, bran, alfalfa meal, linseed oil meal, and a little salt. Several poultry men near Lincoln have used this new system of raising turkeys with as good success as the poultry department of th college has had. There is no question hut that with a good system of sanitation can be and feeding, turkeys raised without loss from disease and coyotes. Western Farm Life. Keep It is possible to grow good legume by planting alsike clover usually m combination with timothy or other hay crop for swales, or land too wet for most crops. It will make included up to 20 per cent in the good soil growth in watersoaked growing mash. A standard chick and twill endure overflow to an ungrowing mash is fed to the poults usual degree. in regular chick mash feeders. The mash is composed of ground yellow corn, shorts, bran, meat and bone meal, linseed oil meal, a little salt TINSLEY & SONS and cod liver oil. Grain, yellow corn in mind: a balance kept Sanitation, New York city, which Is so big a ration and no chickens in the same mostly, is supplied the growing market that It goes far in setting BUYERS OP as the old No yard turkeys. turkeys poults. prices and standards. Is showing a are allowed in the The brooder houses have small yards with the preference for lighteither. Seed, Wool, Honey, Pelts poults screened in porches so that the ly salted butter. This may do away Hatched Incubator in caw be Eggs sunturkeys joung and all lawfully with the use of butter coloring and given The first step of sanitation is shine before they are large enough may lift the price of winter butter caught furs. even higher over the yellower sum- secured by hatching all the turkeys to be turned out in the graveled eggs in an incubator which has lots. Cod liver oil in the mash takes mer product than it is now. The n been thoroughly scrubbed and dis- the place of sunshine to a MXTON, UTAH is that some of the lighter-colore- d great' y extent. the witr r butter may have to be stored infected. incubator By using P. O. Hax 54. there is no chance for the newly This last year all but one lot of S to t. e care of summer demand. jT'ii(Timriiiinii iiminiiimimiiiiimniunpiii uu,. V111 I light-colore- d, rea-;eo- , Leghorn pullets hatched early in n ".l usually to lay in March are and likely to molt ,late August winter. early the following bi-d- Overcrowding hens in the poultry house will decrease the egg money. At least three to four square feet of floor space should be allowed for each bird. . 1 hatched turkeys to pick up black head or other disease germs from a mother turkey hen or from a hen. Secondly, when ready to be taken from the incubator, the poults are taken to a brooder house, much th same type as vised for baby chicks. Thi3 house is absolutely clean and especially well disinfected. Chloride of lime is used chiifly as the disinfectant. ( A Dairy Herd Spells Prosperity to its Owner EVERY WOMAN OR GIRL Bringing This'AdTertiseinent With Her Will Be Entitled to a Discount on Any Hat Purchased: at The HAT AND NOVELTY SHOP B. T. Lowe, Prop, Valborg Where a handmade hat sells for the price Hat Elsewhere." of a factory |