TURKEY RAISING FOR WOMEN.
• Five years ago Miss Arlita Martin, of Texas, began raising turkeys. She had a flock of five hens and a gobbler to start with. The first year she raised 117 birds in the spring and 79 in the fall, which she soVi at an average of 97 cents each. The greater part of the first year's earnings were spent the second year in buying food and building bouses and yards for her fowls. She bought five common hens and put them to hatching turkeys' eggs at the same time the turkey hens were set, and when the poults appeared they were all given to the common hens, while the turkey hens were broken up and soon laid another clutch of eggs. That year she raised 434 turkeys and sold all but 50, which were reserved for breeders. From these she raised the following year 1400, of which 100 were kept. By this time she was using incubators and planted several acres of green stuff for food, and hired two women and several boys to help care for the turkeys. Over and above ail expenses «he cleared L 2500 the fifth year. The main food i< bread and eornmeal with a little red pepper and a good quantity of green food.
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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 179, 8 May 1903, Page 4
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