—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 2, 1972
6
Wild Turkey
Numbers Up
'While most domesticated
turkeys raised in 1970 ended up on
somebody’s table, about 85
percent of the wild ones managed
to escape this fate.
And the wild turkey population
of the U.S. is increasing, thanks
to State conservation practices
and restrictive game laws.
A 1970 big game inventory
conducted by the National Fish
and Wildlife Service showed
there were over 1 million wild
turkeys in the U.S., compared
with about 650,000 in 1960.
Wild turkeys can be found in
about 30 States. Estimates from
the four States with the largest
populations in 1970 were Texas,
400,000 birds; Alabama, 228,000;
Pennsylvania, 88,000; and
Florida, 80,000.
Alabama’s wild turkey
population increased almost
fourfold during the 1960’5.
Pennsylvania’s doubled, Texas’
was up a third, and Florida’s wild
turkey numbers expanded about
a fourth.
As the wild turkey flock in
creased, so did the kill by hun
ters. During 1960-70 the hunters’
bag almost doubled-from 70,000
birds in 1960 to 138,000 10 years
later.
The most popular wild turkey
with sportsmen is the “Eastern
Wild Turkey”-sometimes called
the turkey of the Pilgrims. Once
quite common in New England, it
became extinct in that area
around the turn of the 19th cen
tury. However, the “Eastern
Turkey” still thrives from
Pennsylvania to Florida and as
far west as New Mexico.
Wild turkeys are smaller than
the domesticated bird-they
average 12 to 14 pounds-and, as
most hunters will attest, are the
most wily of all game birds.
The domesticated turkey came
to the U.S. via a circuitous route.
Originally raised by the Aztecs of
Mexico, the bird was taken by
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Pa. Achieves Brucellosis-Free Status
Federal officials presented
Secretary of Agriculture Jim
McHale with a certificate
declaring Pennsylvania as a
“Bovine Brucellosis Free Area.”
“I am happy to accept this
certificate,” said McHale. “This
represents a successful con
clusion to years of work by our
Bureau of Animal Industry in
wiping out a dreaded cattle
disease in the Commonwealth.”
Pennsylvania officially
achieved Brucellosis-Free status
from the U.S. Department of
Agriculture in September. A
cooperative state-federal
program has been in effect for
years to eradicate the cattle
disease that casues cows to abort,
and thus has been a bane to
livestock and dairy farmers.
Elimination of the disease in
Pennsylvania also means a
public health hazard has been
alleviated, McHale noted. Bovine
Brucellosis is one of the sources
of human undulant fever.
The certificate yesterday was
presented to McHale by Dr.
Grant Balke, USDA regional
director for the northeast; Dr.
Spanish explorers from Mexico to
Spain and later to England,
where new strains were
developed. It was then brought
back to North America by set
tlers migrating to the American
Colonies.
Commercial flocks were raised
on a small scale in the 1920’5. By
about 1935 the U.S. farmer began
concentrating on turkey as a
primary source of meat.
By the 1960’5, over 100 million
birds were produced annually,
and in 1971, die American famer
raised some 120 million. Last
year’s consumption of turkey
meat was near the record high of
8.6 pounds in 1967.
The leading turkey States in
1971 were: Minnesota (18.4
million birds), California (16.8
million), North Carolina (10.2
million), Missouri (8.7 million),
Texas (8.4 million), and
Arkansas (7.8 million).
E.A. Schilf, senior staff
veterinarian for the USDA’s
Division of Cattle Diseases; and
Di. Everett Denlinger, chief of
the USDA’s Tubercullosis and
Brucellosis Division.
Dr. Homer S. Forney, acting
director of the department’s
Bureau of Animal Industry, also
on hand for the presentation,
noted that Pennsylvania was
declared a modified Brucellosis-
Free status in 1958. In the past
five years, pockets of the disease
existed within the Com
monwealth, including several
herds in Washington County. The
disease was finally totally
eliminated September 5, paving
the way for Brucellosis-Free
status.
Fix-It Tip
Right-handed people will
find it easier to begin a paint
ing job at an upper right
hand corner and move to the
left.
Silica gel, activated alumi
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be used to absorb moisture
from the air. The porous
granules feel dry even when
saturated they hold half
their weight of water.
When remounting last
year’s studded tires for win
ter use, compare the wear
on them with the wear on
your regular tires and put
them on the same way. Tire
Studs wear at an angle de
pending on the direction of
wheel rotation. If the angle
is reversed, the studs turn in
the rubber in an attempt to
correct the angle, may loosen
and fall out.
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