| Show k I r r C f J r I i 7 x r t None Should Blame J Jf Thanks Thanksgiving It Bird for Mental Incapacity d f giving I rf r Go Toward i for All 0 of His Efforts the I f 1 f. f t. t k Development 1 of I ft 1 the truly anti and details the mel method of hunting u them triem In the New Netherlands are al also so very large e turkeys wild They have t Very Ions g r ti a less legs and run so o extraordinarily fast t tat we tike Uke savages w when we wego r w i go o to hunt them fur far when one Has deprived deprive rJ them of the power o ser of using Hying they li v vWe Unless f yet run rim so o fast fust that we cannot carnot eaten catch them unless their legs are arc hurt also Q c Turkeys have been called the bird of this c and the methods of taking them have ninny y John Zohn Hunter Bunter who was captured by the lotions Indians and spent some time in captivity Ity in his hs memoirs w written in R IS to tells how the Indians modes maite a decoy decoyed bird from the s skin k fu of a p turkey followed fol lowed the turkey trestles tracks until they came upon a n loch Hock and then partially i r dis displaying their decoy and Imitating noise made b by the cock v f drew off first one to and nd then another of the foci flock w ho ho being socially Inclined A along to investigate t the t newcomers s 3 came Among the Indians the children were expected to kill turkeys with their i 4 blow g guns am These hese w ere hollow reeds 1 In arrows were l placed nod and blown cY out with such force being acted at the eye of the c creature I i. i i t they liley often brought ulna him down as young as eight years were successful at this tort of Sho hg Adrian Van der Donck says says- that turkeys were sometimes caught dogs In the snow during the f l seventeenth h century hut hilt generally they were shot at night from dJ r I frets They slept in time the trees in largo large flo flocks and often selected ties the same spot f ninny many nights In succession At other times the Indians would lay roots of off f Is w A the turkeys were fond In n and take the birds birds birds-as as they A 1 were In the act of getting these roots 4 In 1 Virginia Irginia the mho trap trapp or o pen pea was much used This Phs ties trap was built In the t forest and leading to it was aS a long trill corn The trap was a n simple 1 r built of logs laid one Grand having g rough lough rails laid across A 4 ti D ENOR EXOn OIt DO DON Tun TURKEY KEY pla played d n a brilliant part in history even en before the the- Spaniards h ht discovered 1 him alon along with Mexico In GIS 1515 i Long before that he had Bail been worshiped b by Aztecs Later j dr when his religious vogue O W was past he lie was given gen g en honorable me- me mc tion n as a bird of honor at the marriage banquet of a king In So superior a u viand was he considered when first introduced to Europe that in a constitution set forth by br Cranmer In 1 1541 15 n t turkey e is named as one of the renter greater fowls of which Mich an nn k a n tlc was to have but one In a dl he But he speedily multiplied to such an e extent that no later Intel than 1335 H w two turkeys s 's nn and four turkey chicks were served l' l at a n feast of the sergeants at nt arms fn In London mentioned In connection with cranes nn and TUII s at that period were ii A little later Inter in n 1573 r swans as Important and mul rich items of a n banquet I turkeys s 's siCIl were iCIl used on the tables of English h husbandmen for the tho Christmas Christens than pl plentiful In their home laud land feast In the meantime they were more where here tur turkeys o e continued to st sell soli for about six Ix cents apiece as ns late Inte as ns the nineteenth nth c century For six Ix cents In tIO those e goo good old days s 's a n turkey weighing about t tel el twelve pounds ponds s could be bought by a n good gool shopper If the tho family thirty pounds It was necessary to toIa needed a n turkey weighing twenty five or Ia pity pay a as much as ns n n quarter But It must be he remembered that six cents In those Iho e guys days counted a good deal more than It does In this the Aztecs worshiped was probably either the Mexican l O i y t- t Time TIle turk turkey J that a ley W Is Js known n by lIr the white touches on its tall covers nn and quills r r morn the tho ocel turkey 3 of nf Honduras and other parts of ot q uth America whose brilliant plumage spotted almost almo t as ns gloriously l with ck somehow allies It particularly with that vivid 1 k s vh fd colors as a n peacock people The lh turkey which strolled out of the lie forests of New England ronel furnished so marvellous n banquet for our Puritan forefathers was a r handsomer bird than that of Mexico In the opinion of some lovers of beauty Slut hut not so o brilliant a 0 one as the Honduras turkey The American rne wild turkey turley which really belongs to Thanksgiving was r the North Noah American wild turkey found throughout the time eastern United States un timid Canada Scientifically It Is known ns as the Americana Its F b pl plumage Is black shaded with bronze In the rn rays s 's of the sun the bird gleams iu ii a beautiful harmony of black hInck copper gold nn and bronze And the turkey tikes ikes the tho rn rays s 's of the sun lIe Ho hates hotes damp w weather other not alone because it is V bud bad for his health but because It obscures his beauty It Is generally believed at present that all the turkeys s 's of the world have hn 7 dl descended tended ended from the three forms known as os the North American bird which bird which has has bas lust just been described the Mexican bird and the bird a The The- turkey turley which Vas was first introduced into Europe may many mn have hn been carried car car- tied led there by hr the Spaniards from Mexico or the Jesuits may have ha tn taken en It ItI I t Ck ack across the waters from one of their scattered stations In the great F oo s of Canada In not any event one of its representatives fi figured at the 1 r m banquet of Charles IX and was regarded as of sufficient Importance I Ff t o he be ll mentioned In the reports of that festivity TJI The Mexican turkey is s the tho wll wild bird of Mexico which also came over o the theline line into the til southern part of the United States a Is the ther r noun name that lint Is generally employed ed to describe this turkey turl C It Is somewhat shorter In fn n the shank than the lie northern species Its loll body color Is a metallic black shaded ha ed with bronze Tills This Is thought to be he the species that the early f navigators J s lust lIst bore hud buck to Spain nu and England The white tips of It Its i F w r plumage ge elso fuse flUn suggested that it is to this bird rather than to the wild wilt q turkey of North America that most of the domestic fowls owls owe their origin lx The turkey which Is smaller than thon the others c has hns a hare bare head bend and neck Its bod body plumage Is bronze and green banded e t with goJ gold hJ on t and varied arced with spots or e eyes es of brilliant colors colors blue blue re red fN and brilliant black J Wh Why the turkey Is Js called the tur when Its origin otis is admittedly purely purel is f occidental is a n subject that has puzzled mon many persons There are several i L treasons reasons given riven b by tho those e wl who o have lUve delved deeply Into this problem nn and one i Is privileged lIel tc to ta take e his choice Ice In the first place It t Is s stated that the turkey was orl originally suppo supposed ed to to- have ha come cone from Asia Thus Thur- at nt n a time when a n neat great eat st stretch etch of ti on oil the tho Asiatic continent was called Turkey the ate bird derived dl Its name from its supposed origin Another speculative speculate e chronicler chron chron- V w icier records that the Indians culled called the bird el and that from this tills Its common name was y created Then again It is som somewhat ben generally generall believed ed that lint tI the bird name l Itself II by Its peculiar utterances rances which are translated as ns still more amore subtle philosophers have turk turk turk traced the naming of the Ute bird to Its kinship hII in the matter of pol polygamous amous habits w with Ith the t Turks lurks over the water Certainly no turbaned subject of the even en In Inthe Inthe the da days 8 when wilen harems were wore considered nn an article of of the true religion was as of his privileges In this this' re regard than glut the these s ever y C ei moh wore tI tenacious turkey cock of J barnyard or 01 forest lorest Turkeys were vere also at nt one time supposed to have lO come corne from Africa c and aid t d the they weyo e confused conf with guineas The rime errors In their scientific selen tine naming are ro 1 due to 10 this confusion f When in IG 1021 1 l. l after tanking making th their lr first harvest cst the pilgrims decreed that 4 there should be a n three lays days f festival osteal which wa was ryas really the lie fir first fiat t Thanksgiving Thanks Thanks- t giving ln 1 wild turkeys s 's already hail had become known as ns n delicious food and they thc furnished Cd the mainstay tn of or lime tho f feast The old old plon pioneers rs weren't s so o b idly badly II off off I Is seems in somi ways some ways wn's as ns we have u been led lel to Imagine for Cor 11 although thc they y were deprived Cd of the time Joys jo of If tinned meats sad and vegetables and surd cold storage and imd n s turkeys s 's were vere so plentiful that it Is recorded record ell it was customary to refer to them as us bread Another chronicler sets forth the fact that tIll the breast of the wild willI turkey when cooked in butter buttel was esteemed l b bw by w even n the epicures ell cures among the explorers But In suite spite of their abundance tur- tur ke keys s H were wre regarded with favor even o by hy the red men lUen If one Is to Judge b by the thet t ln tI u el which they limey uttered 0 Great Being eln I thank thee that I have hn obtained the us use e of m. m rny my le legs s sn n again aln so that I am able ahle to walk about and kill turkeys j It It n was a not alone In eurl early New England that lint the tho bud bird was regarded with f euch r 1 favor favor- as us an edible Isaac Isaae De' De Hosieries In 10 1027 T j writes n a t description of off the t top P. P There was n a trench dug duff under th lowest st t logs which fenced in the i 11 pen pea n In this t corn om was wm red and and the turkey following the tl trail m of this his delicacy for some sonic di distance off wo would finally come to the trench which seemed to be J quite providentially plo strew ith with an nn unusually unu all rich supply lv ne lie Be I followed the great reat bright ht path of rich fo food to his destruction The rhe tur turkeys turkey's e s lack lack of of intelligence when It conies to l him up Is one of the reasons h why a n great rea t many Americans Faye l c not In l eli In accord with Benjamin Franklins Franklin's Frank Frank- lin's lins ns n's idea that th the turkey and ond not the ei eagle should he be be the bird lr of our country A writer describing e the shooting of turkeys In the latter half of the nineteenth nine century c nur In Michigan on speaks of lh t. t use of the hollow bone of the turkeys turkey's key s s wing which in the month mo of an m can be made to reproduce perfectly perfectly per per- the he piping pillIng sound of tl th tha t tur turkey e K tn cn Sometimes also turkeys were hunted on nn horseback In Virginia according l g to an old writer writer- writer this this was not uncommon Be He says s 's ti Th Though we galloped our hoi hol e c could not overtake them the turkeys although nil hough I the they hoy run nearly tw two hundred red and t ent twenty yards b before f re the they took toole flight The constant pit practice oP bur our forefathers In shooting game de developed eloped n a great ninny many fine tu key shots hots and It Is recorded that in the latter half of the seventeenth century a tIn ratan n a bad shot if he missed ed edthe the theer er very ery h head a of n a wild turkey on top ortho of the highest tree with a single le ball To 10 pot hunting and to the practice of of luring lurin the turkeys s 's by imitating th the the- call of the HIP hen in the spring Sylvester Sylester D. D Ju Judd d of the tho biological IC I survey sunny of the United States depar d f tf 1 nl na largely attributes the tho extermination ex ex- termination nn of or the thc tho rila- rila t hl j n wiy parts of the United Sta States h s where when formerly It t was wok especially n Trapping the turkeys In pens also helped along the extermination I Although the turkey is generally g Speaking Baking not a particularly hard hardy bird being subject to various forms of Indigestion nt etc ha he Is varied In his his' diet and usually has hns n hood good appetite Some Sorge of the things which the wild turkey likes best i nd which the domesticated Olne bird will b by no means menns scorn are arc grasshoppers grasshoppers grass gross hoppers hopper crickets locusts ts tn tadpoles poles small lizards garden seeds and snails One turkey which was war examined by h n a scientist was found to have partaken of Df a n meal including the lie following viands lands One Oue harvest spider one cen centipede one thousand less gs one fly two yellow jackets ets one grasshopper three kat katydids wild cherries grapes berries of dogwood and the sorghum two t chestnuts twenty five whole acorns a n few nl alder er calkins and five he hundred seeds of ot tick trefoil The domestic turkeys turkey's turkeys turkey's tur tur- keys key's habit of hunting grasshoppers and worming tobacco shows that his delight in the primitive e pleasures of the he table has hns not altered In his more carefully pro l provided el for existence r c The Thu chicks both hoth of the wild and the domestic turkey rhey are ra delicate and especially must t th they be bo protected during the lamp damp weather Audubon says that the mother bird among the e wild turkeys s thoroughly understands s tho the delicacy of her offspring and hint when It is wet she feeds the chicks buds from the spice hush buh with medicinal Intent exactly as ns the a mother r of n a brood of ot youngsters prescribes doses o es quinine o of when Influenza has taken the family In Its Us clutches As soon oon as fiS th tho young ung girds birds can cnn fi fly well enough to take their place on the roost with their mothers l the most delicate period of childhood what might be he called filled the teething stage sta e is thought to he ht over o But according to a successful turkey farmer the p are three month old before the they cnn can he be tau thins Th Tty They are ure then taught g that they should hould roost high so as ns to t I Jit Et y of or the wn way of night prowlers Turkeys r eys retain so O much of their wild nature I e that the they do not ll like e roosting Inside a ahouse ahouse ahouse house and Indeed they do even en for artificial perches t 1 When V e r possible pos pos- tos sible the they greatly prefer tall toll beta as a n roosting place to any roost that has hns been e especially 11 constructed l foi th m m. m This characteristic tc renders them especially esper espe espe- r sally e easy ns victims for fOl night r raiders ers es In addition to the human humon desperadoes oos of this description there ther are the coyotes otes and hawks alit uh 11 always uy s 's s to be guarded against III in some parts of the country In III addition to illnesses rl i tom a from digestive disorders cold colds the scourge co of blackheads blackheads' M etc and nd the tho de depredations P red of the nl night g gM ht raider er the turkey tUlI farmer always nl has hns to r also the feu feuds s among the rhe members I which frequently rage e hl hf high li h Nevertheless of his flock hock the careful tur turkey ey y rancher has hns found it It I possible t to P user e s his birds t s |
