Show Wild Turkeys Nuisance According to Accounts Account books of years ago and earlier show that the domestIc f turkeys were then very small The average weight of ot those sold in Bos Boston Bos- Bos Boston ton was seven to eight pounds ae- ae ac according c cording to a writer in the Boston Bostone r e Herald There was as told In n Bentleys Bentley's diary a farmer and md Innkeeper named William Breed at Nahant ti early carly in the Nineteenth century who had domesticated wild turkeys which when dressed weighed 14 to 18 pounds each cach These were sold inthe in the holiday season at Salem At t New London and Norwich Ct in inthe in the district which includes parts z of that state and Rhode Island the thet t turkeys were commonly 10 to 12 of t pounds and some heavier up to 14 pounds This is the area long famous tor for Rhode Island turkeys I Westerly in that state being the fJ great shipping point i Ohio settlers from irom New v England in 1805 and for several years after aHer found the wild turkeys there a nui nul nuisance nuisance sance It is recorded that at the first seeding of wheat the wild turkeys were so bold that some sowers had to stop and drive them from the 1 neIghborhood One woman trapped about two dozen in the corncrib by strewing shelled corn about it itt and leaving the door open t p |