Show THE TURKEY FLOCK It road to Keep tlio led 1 or the Christ iiiiu Musket It Is not until Ibo middle of November No-vember that file turkeys qalt roving the fields and voodi lu quest of food Many persons think thai it la a Ion to keep them after they quit banting for themselves them-selves but each is a mistaken idea and we LUlcM vto cm plainly show another side i to tho question Wo will say that a drove 01 40 lurkcyfl sold on Ibo 10th of November for the T1130k8givin market mar-ket averaged 1J pounds Tire dome turkeys tur-keys kept until the middle of Doccuibcr Vioultlnverngo Iff l pounds Tho prieD for tho Christmas market w i3 never known to ho less thou bilf n cent above the Thanksgiving market and some years It has been a cent totter riKuriuR tho Thnnkiigiviug market at 0 and tho Cbrlatnivt market at 03a wo find that the turkeys aro worth for Ibo Thanksgiving market 72 cents for the Christmas market 071 Xj cents a giiii on each turkey of 2514 cents Urn gain on tug 40 will bo 1020 Allowing them half n bushel of corn oicli day v > oulil bu i 15 bushels which at 25 cents per bushel bush-el would bo 375 net profit 015 f Till fcptclnlliU Crlllcllnl Scncral specialists devoted to some I particular br < e < l often group together slid stylo themselves a Plymouth Hock club or n Duff Cochin club or allY oilier variety na Iho cabo may hOt says Inrm Now Ostensibly Iho aim of these clubs it I to Improve and ndvanco Ibo interests of the particular variety with which they tire affiliated and if thin was accomplished ac-complished and the work Btorlpcd there all well and good bat tire tronblo it they dont stop at that point In fact they frequentlj do not travel in that direction di-rection at all but go off at a tangent after Bonn senseless tho accomplishment accomplish-ment of which not only mean no Rain whatever for the bn ld from a utility ttaudpoiut but often Ibo reverse Tile tho Duff Cochin forlntunro In file do etroyinR hand of tho tl1oyl it has retrograded ret-rograded from ono of our cry 11 null < uiwt useful fowls into n unolcES unsightly un-sightly and unclein mass of lethe It cannot produce cg It cannot produeo flesh Us whole cm rgy It expended in producing all abnormal growth of tooth ere Tho Bud Cocbiii of today as the fanciers want it 1 Is n worthless variety and cannot bo kept with profit in any poultry yard I |