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Show Frost Makes Fat T irkeys. "Cold weather makes fat turkeys," said the poulterer, "becauop in a warm fall tho ground keeps soft, tho vegetation vege-tation lingers on and tho fields are full of worms and bugs. What's the ro-sult? ro-sult? Tho turkeys from sunrise till dark tramp the tempting fields on long forages, eating tho worms and bugs, which thin them, and walking all their soft and fine llesh Into tough, stringy muscle. "A cold fall, with early frosts and snows, freezes the ground and kills the bugs. Then tho turkeys are not tempted to wander. They loaf In tho farm ynrd, gorge an abundance of grain and put on flesh like a mlddlo-nged mlddlo-nged woman at a seashore hotel. But In a warm fall, hunting the Irresistible bug, tho turkeys do their fifteen or twenty miles regularly every day and become athletes. For athletic turkeys there Is no public demand." |