The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, June 02, 1906, Page 2, Image 2
Agricultural
Money in Turkeys.
Young Turkeys Die From
Improper Feeding and Useless
Attentions?How to
Make the Business Profitable.
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Progressive Farmer.
The people of our country are
notably a turkey-eating and turv
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ivry- iuviii^ y rt uvuii^n i n |
rively few of our Southern farm era
raise turkeys in sufficient
numbers to supply their own tables.
The chief reason given for the
neglect of this most profitable
branch of industry is that the
death rate am >ng the young
ooults is generally so great.
WHY YOUNO 1URKEYS DIE.
The fact that one {hundred
years ago turkeys roamed in endless
numbers "far from the
hauuts of man," throughout jthe
forests of the whole Southland,
,ocr?ther witn our own exDerience
in raising them, has convinced
us that mortality among the
young poults is due largely Jlto
over-feeding, unnatural foods
and useless attentions.
With intelligent handling'{and
plenty of range, turkeys thrive
with comparatively little care,
finding the greater portion of
i.heir own food and keeping
strong and healthy. No other
species of live stock will gather
up so much of the wastage of
farm and convert it into gold.JAs
foragers, they have no equal in
the poultry world?grassesj and
clovers of every description, insects,
bugs, worms, the seeds of
every plant, refused vegetables,
acorns, nuts, berries, fruits, melons,
succulent roots and waste
grain, are all greedily devoured
and converted into the most pal
aianie nesn.
When it is desirable to raise a
large flock it is advisable to use
an incubator and at the same
time to set a gentle turkey or
chicken hen, and at hatching
time confine her in the brooder
with the whole hatch.
The mother and her brood
should all be carefully dusted
w.th insect pow ier to destroy
parasites which are always fatal
t.*> the young poults.
The brooder should be placed j
wh^re poults will have access to
an abundance of grasses and inH??crs
and small doors should al- J
low them to go in and out at
will.
now TO FEKD TUK YOUNG ONKS.
The mot lie r shoti Id he confined
for three weeks and during this
tune the poults should lie fed
regularly three times per day on
scraps from the table and given
all the buttermilk they will
drink. After three woeka the
mother can be given her liberty
.Hid full control of her brood. It
allowed free range on the farm,
hut little further attention will
be necessary.
CAKK IN 8UMMKH ANI? FALL.
From the spring and summer
pastures of clovers and bermudas
wo turn our turkey* upon the
pea lielda they go to the cotton
lipids which have been sown in
rye and oats, and these, with the
rutabaga turnips, furnish all the
food they require until the com- i
mg of the next spring's vegeta <
t.ion. Uy clipping the tlight tenth i
dis they can be confined any- i
Department.
where desired, but they thrive i
best in perfect freedom.
We consider the pure-bred i
White Holland the idea! turkey
for the farmer. They are beauti- 1
ful, extremely hardy, prolific
layers and of agentle disposition. 1
They are of medium size and
mature so rapidly that tho poults 1
hatched in July and August will
make excellent breeders for the
next season. If not allowed to
hatch the hens will lay almost
continuously from March to October.
From the sale of eggs for
hatching in the spring and surplus
stock in the fall each White
turkey hen can be made to pay
a net profit of from $20 to $25
per annum. The income from a
flock of twenty hens would be no
insignificant sum to the average
farmer, and yet it involves no
unuual outlay of capital and no
>% m n 1 i n U I a
wwnj "vim unifnauit? inuurtiic.
Mth. Ida Smith.
Jefferson, Ga.
A Kingdom in a One-Mule
Farm.
The following communication
is sent us by Mr. Raymond L.
Oriffiss, 35 Wall Street, New (
York, whose experience as president
of the Southern Immigra
tion Society has brought him in |
to close touch with the agricultu (
ral problems of the South and (
with the possibilities which that
section offers to immigrants. Mr. ,
Grifli8s adds that he can prove ,
every word of his story(we do not ,
doubt it, for we know what can
be done in the South) and offers
to send the name of the "King"
of the little "Kingdom" and other ,
information in regard to what
has been done by others to any
who will write him :
As an illustration of whAt can
be accomplished on Georgia land
by studying the soil, supplying it
with the necessary plant food,
diversifying crops, using brains
as well as bunds, and superintend
ing everything personally, a
Southern farmer year by year
added to his possessions, until
his one-mule farm has become
one of the largest in the world,
covering thirty square miles of
land, and giving employment to j
1,250 men, women and children.
His average for years has been
twenty live bushels of corn per i
acre and one thousand pounds ot
seed cotton. Some acres yielded i
sixty live bushels of corn, thirty- i
live of wheat and two bales of
nfltffill Ilia lo ml u ~ ~
. . muo IUIMJ CA I Hint M S
worth $10 per acre, now $00.
Hh cattle now number 500, beside
Ins one hundred thorough
bred Jerseys and Holsteins, which
have produced each year 20,000
pounds of butter at eighteen to i
twenty five cents per pound.
With agriculture he has combined
manufacturing, and his raw ma- i
terial has been turned into valu
able manufactured articles by
means of the steam ginnery, oil
mi 11? and fertilizer factory. He
has employed negro labor only.
His paw mill cuts bis lumber for
his bouses, etc. ; his brickyard 1
turns out his brick ; his wagons;
are made in bis shop. His ownj
railroad, seventeen nnles long,'
hauls materials to hiu
and hi# marketable nroducts ton
the outside world. I (
The production of lint cotton i
is one bale to two and one-half '
acres on good, bad and inditfer- '
ant farms but it is not at all tin- ,
uommnn for a good farmer to
raise a bale to the acre by goodj
culture and abundant fertilizer.
Intensive farming, which applies
the lessons of science and experience,
has achieved some remarkable
results.
The following is the average
annual product of bin farm : 2,200
bales of cotton, 120,000 gallons of
cottonseed oiI, 3,000 tons of fertilizer,
20,000 bushels of corn, 10,000
bushels of wheat. 1,000 bushels
of rye, 5.000 bushels of oats,
6,000 of peas, 20,000 pounds of
butter, 100,000 pounds of fat cattle,
5.000 pounds of bacon and
hams, besides such crops as sweet
and Irish potatoes, watermelons,
ground peas, sorghum, etc.?
( Inn titru ( *nrt t I n ii it
vwuiiiij VJ^uucuiaii.
The Growth of the Pine.
The price of lumber being bo
very high and timber lands bring
itig such good prices it may be of
interest to know something of
tho growth of the pine. Mr. A. 11.
Uroce, of Swann's Station, moved
to the place on which he now
lives in 1870, and, where a gate
stood to what was the sheep pas
tore, and which was moved to
another place that year there
grew up some pines The other
day he hauled some logs to a saw
mill cut from this piece of land,
and one cut from a tree on the
exact spot where stood the gate
he got 300 feet of lumber. This
lumber was sold at $1.50 hundred,
thus making a net profit of $4.50
on a tree only thirty-six years
.1 J
uiu.
This is but a single instance,
and doubtless there are many
more which would show better
results, but even at this rate we
will not be out of lumber for
many years in this section, for
all the land which we cease to
cultivate immediately grows up
in pine and becomes marketable
within a period of thirty or
forty years. The price of lumber
remaining at the present, price(and
we see no reason for it go
ing down) a man with surplus
money might well invest in oldMeld
lands and let lus investment
yield him a handsome revenue m
a few years.?Carthrage News.
Remedy For Irish Potato
Bugs.
i
Southern Cultivator.
In reply to the inquiry of B. F !
W., Weat.herbee, S. O., for a rerae
dy for Irish potato bugs, permit
me to take exceptions to your
statement that Paris green is tincheapest
and most effective reme 1
dy. Let K. F. W. try the follow 1
ing:
Gather ? lr?t of cedar twigs, put,
them iti a wash kettle and make j
a good stiff tea. After it gets'
cold, take one of the twigs, or an;
other method of sprinkling the !
decoction, and apply it to the
potato vines. It will kill little
and big, young and old, hard shell;
or no shell, Irish or other nation
ality. Of course eggs that are}
underneath the leaves will hatch'
out. but a few applications will
lis the bugs.
Sincerely yours,
Charles W.
Elberton, (ia.
Fortunate Missourlans.
' When I wasn (Irugyist. at Livonia, Mo , j
write* r. J IJwyer, now of Graysville, Mo.,
"three of my customer* were permanently !
mired of connumption hy l>r. Kind's New
Discovery, and are well and strong to-day.
One was trying to sell his property and
move to Arizona, hut after using New Discovery
a slmtt time he found it unroces*ary
to do so. I regard Dr. King's New Discovery
as the most wonderful medicine in j
i x later* ce Unrest Cough and Cold Core
mid 'Ihroatand Lung heater. Guaranteed
hy Funderdurk Pharmacy, Crawford
Brra.. and J. F. Mackey A i o. Druggists.
JOc and f 1 I'riul bottle tree.
^ "The Old Reliable." -ifl J
< THE BANK OF LANCASTER, Lancaster. S.C. gv
capital $50,000.00. a
y surplus $50,000.00.
Loans made on Real Estate, at reasonable rates. A
II Collections given prompt and careful attention. ^
% Interest allowed on time deposits.. ^
Your business solicited. The oldest, the largest and
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Southern Railway
THE SOUTHS GREATEST SYSTEM
Unexcelled dining car service.
Through Pullman sleeping cars
on all through trains. Conven- *
ient schedules on all local trains. t v
a :..a. i ... :? r
winter luuii^i laics aic nuw in \
effeet to all Florida points. For
full information as to rates,
routes, etc., consult any Southern
Railway Ticket Agent, or
BROOKS MORGAN, A.G.P.A., R.W.HUNT,G.P.A.,
Atlanta, Ga. Charleston, S. C.
j First National Bank I
9 In these days of keen competition, the success of n bank uiay he said to A
W depend primarily upon the liberality of treatment accorded its depositor*. 9
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' ration in Lancaater County. Interest at the rate of 4 per cent, paid on m
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"E foMe1?""1 College of Charleston
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I.KKitY tfHKINUS. Pr?Hide i i DRINK
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Executor's Sale.
For sale, at public auction, on Mon- I A PIANO OR ORGAN
day the 2nd day of July 190tt, at. Lan- r^rvr. won
caster, S. C.. at 1*2 o'clock m Tract of rUn YOU. ^
land in Lancaster County containing
about U58 acres, known as tract f of Lithe head of eveiv family who is amt
be estate lands of Julius M ills, hound- h'timis tor the future and education of his
ed north ami west on Catawba and **','],''*n- we have a Hj.eeul I mposition to
? nreree rrvers. as per plat of W R I jc|(| m |h# h(> s||()WH h 1
Diireri I> S; he.mr tract conveyed by (l( Ilc.? ot (.nlt(ir? ,brtt ,,o.Ja |',h?ooK)i. .
William*, Clerk oi <011 rt, to Annie K jjn *cooiiii>liHhiii?i.(y mven a* innch
Kohinnon by deed dated he Mnd da> iilaanure or in of mm ureal *due in after life
of I)ecpiriher. 18SII, anil recorded in liH (}j(, knowled^o <?f nmi' and the ability *
Deed llook <?, pages H hoiI I (o ))|ay w?u
Terms cash; or one-third cash and Our SihhII Payment PIpi makestheor(ji.
the balance payable in two etjual nershipofa hi^h graUjI'iano or Orgiui
successive annual instalments from easy. I >
date of sale, secured by bond of the .lust a few dollars iln* and a small | aypurchasi-r
and mortage of the prem - meat each month or fuarterly or semiises
Purchaser to pay for deed $10 (Ml. annually and the ii strvient is yours,
and also f. r taxes payable Hfter date Write us today fori atalngnes and oar
of sale, including those payable in Special Proposition oll?*y Payments.
p,r( Ml. A.M. I.ee, Address, .
Kst. Annie K. Kobinson, HIALONE S M?>IC HOUSE, ^
&-21Mw. deceased. Coining. S. C.
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