Salt Lake Times | 1890-07-08 | Page 2 | Chloroforming Wild Turkeys

Chloroforming Wild Turkey. Jim White owns a patch of ground near this place. The surrounding forest abounds in wild turkeys, and in the spring old Jim spends most of his time hunting their nests and occasionally capturing cap-turing the birds alive. This he accomplishes accom-plishes in a novel manner, yet the process proc-ess is much more matter of fact than sportsmanlike. He first discovers the turkey's roosting place, and then, under cover of darkness, dark-ness, he fires a brush heap near the tree, which he has previously prepared, and while the turkey's attention is attracted to the flames Jim creeps up to the tree with his appliance used for making the capture. This consists of several sections sec-tions of strong bamboo rods, jointed like a fishing rod, and may be extended twenty or thirty feet in length. At the top end is secured a saucer shaped vessel, ves-sel, over which a small bottle is fastened, fasten-ed, neck downward. To the cork is attached at-tached a cord, which runs the entire length of the rod. The bottle is then filled with chloroform, and under cover of dark shadows Jim noiselessly elevates the drug to within a short distance of the turkey's nose. He then pulls the string, causing the cork to withdraw and allowing the drug to fall into the vessel. The fluid is at once inhaled, an? the bird presently drops to the ground stupefied. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.