re A cm Fy - : pb Cy ¢: ad The great American bird, the bird which will scream back an answer to you every time you imitate his “gob- ble” or otherwise “make a noise like a gobble,” has along with his domesti cator, man, driven the other American bird far into the back woods, figura- tively and actually. When the Indians owned the land, the eagle and the turkey stood on I ad RT ar ARI Ale 3 bo EET SAAS TY A el SE AN Ca TI Rt LIRR Be a Tes eh te TH ee TR YOUNG BRONZE COCKS. probably an equal footing, the one the tyrant of fhe air and the other the | king of game birds. Both were hunt- ed by the Indian, the eagle to furnish plumes for his war bonnet, and the | progenitor. able turkey, of course, for food. But now the cagle seldom Is hunted and still more seldom ever killed or captured, while the turkey is found in hundreds of thousands of farm yards. Although the North American wild turkey is a beautiful and resplendent game bird, with feathers of black, shaded with a rich bronze and {llumi- mated with a lustrous finish of coppery color, his domesticated cousin, while fmproved nothing in appearance, has been bred up to outweigh any other domestic fowl, thirty or thirty-five La he Troan N THE NATIONAL BIRD, GUY ELLIOTT MITCHELL. ing, people have become so disheart- ened In some localities with the mea. ger results of their efforts to grow turkeys for market that they have de sisted from the attempt. Mr, T. F. McGrew, of New York, a well-known judge of poultry and a writer on breeds and breeding, has written a turkey bulletin for the De- partment of Agriculture which is known as Farmers' Bulletin No. 200, and in this he says that there is no other kind of livestock that will return so large a profit to the successful pro- ducer as will poultry, and no kind of poultry is more profitable than turkeys when properly handled. The fact that turkeys will, from the time they are six weeks old until winter sets In, gain the greater part of their entire living from bugs, g=asshoppers and waste grain that they pick up in their wanderings over the range, assures their existence through this period at little or no cost to the grower. In other words, they may be termed self sustaining foragers, where they have sufficient range. The Bronze Turkey. This turkey holds the post of honor. It is possibly a cross between the wild turkey and the tame turkey, which lat- ter is generally believed to have de- scended from either the North Ameri. can wild turkey, the Mexican wild turkey or the Honduras or Ocellated turkey. Its beautiful rich plumage {and its size have come from its wild To maintain these desir qualities, crosses are continually necessary. In this way the mammoth size has been gained, the standard weight ranging from sixteen to thirty- six pounds, according to age and sex. The coloring of this variety is a ground of black blazoned or with bronze, j reflected from these colors, they shine as rich in color as the male, like polished steel. The female is not but both have the same and shadings. Much of this richness of color is lost color shaded | This shading is rich and | Do not select 1} glowing, and when the sun's rays are for this purpose; those of a blood throughout the whole country, pounds being not uncommon among prize turkey flocks. We | FTI Tver P yer se Pf and, to have this Influence to the fullest extent, well-proportioned, vigor- ous females In their second or third year should be selected as breeders. I'H AMER ge gpecimens medium t. Discard the undersized f all times, as they are l value pro- duce ngth of shank and port , Should not be mis- RIZE Are usualy emales at f as According to the Department of Agriculture the growing of turkeys has improved within tha last few years as a result of a determined effort on *he part of producers of what is termed “standard bred or exhibition” stock to demonstrate that it is more profitable to use prre bred breeding stock than the smaller and less vigor ous stock of days gone by. Their efforts to introduce throughout the country the several standard varie ties of turkeys have greatly improved our turkey growing Industry. This effort has supplied rich, new, vigorous EE ——— adding strength and virility to in- numerable flocks, many of which had become considerably deteriorated through inbreeding. Deterioration Through Inbreeding. The fact that one fecundation 1s sufficient to render fertile all the eggs thigh, | turkey, and the red Bourbon turkey, which is similar to the Buff turkey . In addition to the North American wild turkey, the Mexican wild turkey still affords splendid sport, as does also the Honduras turkey, which is found In various parts of Central America, both birds being resplendent and of savory flesh. The turkey bulletin of the Depart- ment of Agriculture above mentioned i8 a brief booklet which will certainly be read with interest by anyone grow- ing or caring for turkeys, It describes the different varities, and devotes fif- teen or twenty pages to the selection and care of breeding stock, turkey houses and ranges, incubation, hatch- ing, growing and feeding the birds, {marketing and also the allments to the English Norfolk turkey, the Slate | | | 2 | AN W which turkeys are subject Drop a postal to your member of Congress or Senator, and he will send you one. LD TURKEY Food Value of Eggs. | Popular belief to the contrary, there {18 no difference in the nutritive qualil- ties of eggs with dark shells and those with light. Their flavor is affected by the food of the fow! for good or for evil. Exhaustive experiments by well { equipped investigators prove that the i | tious food, | that CERES at {a cheap of one laying has made possible the undermining of the health and vigor of the present-day domestic turkey. Being advised of this, hundreds of people depend upon their neighbors’ 1 the flocks for the services of a male and | Of all our do + fowls none suffer | pay no attention to the matter of | from Inbreeding nuch as turkeys breeding stock except to keep one or | This should be guarded against at all two turkey hens This bas reduced | times, if it is hoped to gain the best | many of the turkeys throughout the | results country almost to a conditie im- | Naturally the Bron=e turkey should becility. The lack of vigor in a large | be the largest the mot portion of the breeding stock through-/ gus in constitution, and the most prof- GROUP OF WH | through Inbreeding, as it Is improved) by each cross with the wild specimens "er a3 mes oJ m of in size, | breast ind 1te value | tional vigor which 1 W hor most vigor | groy ITE TURKEYS taken for siz mded body and most clearly; indicate constitu uld be maintain the selection of ver: times for producing stock 8 given to the se stock, and the nd those profitable tness of form, iy, and con sati ’ » from the growing of eo; full-rot nd gtrenet} ne ed through best at all the rs are ) breed "ne i i= * host sfactory results may this variety h eare ter how Od tions, only inbreedi: : h males with small fem of less advant than smaller males with wedivm-sized females. oversized Ble | the use oO well matured, ike r “Ww The Narragansett Turkey, » This turkey is a noble looking, full chested bird but is not so large as the Bronze, ¥is color Is a black back- | ground with a steelgray edge to the feather which imparts a metallic black-and-bronze luster. The cocks, or | toms, weigh from 20 to 30 pounds, and | some old ones have gone 40 pounds. The irragansett is a desirable breed and some growers declare that they will reach market size and condition in less time than the Bronze turkeys N The Buff Turkey. As bred for market these turkeys are a reddish buff or light chestnut color mixed with white and some dark shadings. They are highly valued In| some localities for thelr quick growth and for thelr attactiveness when! dressed, although they do not run as the Naragansett or the Bronze, The White Turkey: In America the white variety 1s called the White Holland turkey. In England they are known as “Austrian Whites” where they are considered sports from other turkeys, They range from 10 pounds for young hens to 26 pounds for old cocks, although they have run as high as 85 pounds at fairs. | Mr. MeGrew states that white turkeys are quite ns easy to grow as any other variety, and he states that one cannot select a better kind for all uses than the White Holland, They grow to the most profitable sizes, dress heantifully for market, their light, pinkish-white shanks add to thelr appearance; and A FORTY POUND BRONZE GOBBLER out the country bas jeopardized to a [itable to grow. This would be the sta certain extent the production of a [tus of the variety at present were it sufficient number of market turkeys to | not that too little attention has heen supply the demand. In fact, not fully | given to the selection of the females realizing that their failure was large | for breeding stock. It should be fully with them, as with all white Joulizy, (he pin feathers show less than darker varities, The very largest tur keys are not as profitable either to or to sell, The medium sizes from 0 to 18 pounds dressed-are the most desirable for family use, Other turkeys are the Black turkey, ly due to undermining the vitality of | understood that size and constitutional thelr breeding stock through inbreed- | vigor come largely through the fewale, | joyed | that fact {and gasps, how the new gym teacher egg deserves its easily assimilated if Such reputation as an and highly nutri eaten raw or lightly experiments also show lve cents a dozen are | of nutrients; at six- mewhat expensive, and cents and over, highly cooked twe teen cents at twenty-five extravagant The basis of comparison was the market prices of standard flesh foods considered in relation to thelr nutri tive elements. But there is a physio logical constituent of eggs which is of great value, yet it defles the search of the scientist or the inquisition of the statistician, and that is their palata- bility. Unless a food, however rich in proteins, is relished, it its value, while, per contra, a chemically desirable food that becomes valuable by reason of less — pili ——— FAIR STUDENTS IN REVOLT. Object to the Measuring Methods of Their Gymnasium Instructor. The girls of the freshman and sopho- more classes of the Unis ty of Cin cinnati have been going about with traces of tears on their cheeks, and asking each other, “Have you been icheduled 7 At first the girls did not know what ‘scheduling meant when they re ceived confidential notes from Edna Earl Hope, teacher of the girly’ gymnasium work at the ‘varsity. Their presence alone in her room was requested at such and such a time looked mysterd ous and the girls held a consultation. Then the bravest faced Miss Hope. When she went in to Miss Hope her face was eager, but when she came out it was scarlet. “And what do you think?" she whis- pered: “You—bave to—take off all your clothea* “And after she gets your clothes off, chorused the girls what then?” Then the first girl told, with tears ers The “alone” placed an adjustable rig about the hips and measured them-—the hips-—yes! And she measured the arms and the ‘er—'er—logs. The bust expansion and the length of the fingers, and how big the chest is when the girl takes a long breath, and bow little it gets when the girl expels her breath, Then she subtracts the difference, divides it by two, and multiplies the result by three, and says: “There's where you ought to be, and maybe you'll be that by the end of the year, when the second physical exami- pation comes” The girls held an indignation meet. ing the latter part of the week, and a committee was secretly appointed to walt on President Dabney. “But.” said the girls on the commit. tee, “we would rather take one of those scheduled things than to tell a man about It" Because of the excitement of those girls who were “scheduled” Miss Hope has now provided a garment lo make ing the “test”. _— Lacking In Education, Little Freddie, having lost a nickel was crying bitterly, An old gentleman who had stopped to Investigate sald: “My boy you houldn't that way.” aw sald (he Tile fellow, *1 d-don't know how to cory any o-other way. 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