Davis County Clipper | 1902-10-03 | Page 3 | How Did the Turkeys Know

HOW DID THE TURKEYS KNOW birds had a premonition of coming disaster A virginia farmer tells a story which seems to indicate that turkeys are not as senseless creatures as they appear to be one night recently he says myself and my wife were out driving As I 1 was putting up the horse iatter after returning hime I 1 noticed my turkeys were not ro as usual in the big buttonwood tree by the tha barn instead they were perched on the fence posts and in the limbs of other trees I 1 it struck me as mighty funny a as turkeys on the place had roosted in III that tree ever since I 1 could remember that night about midnight a hard wind and rain storm came up and the old buttonwood blew down now no how did those turkeys know that tree was doomed at sundown there was no sign of a storm and the buttonwood was fully fifty years old and apparently as stanch as ever