| Show WHY As often na as Thanksgiving ilay Io ap approaches and the market marot price of or turkeys s tins Ills the mind of oC tho house housekeeper keeper with misgiving mlp various arious local economists the tho question why our farmers farmer at home do not raise more of this farni product And AmI we do not nol recall hearing any satis satisfactory factory answer to this thin query Docs an my one know why wh wo cannot raise turkeys Of or course business bu llIe s like any an other should bo be well considered be before fore Coro going into it on a IL large scale but in u small way wa every farmer might well experiment upon It Tho Inter Ocean makes the tho sensible ble suggestion that hat farmers should raise turkeys as IS a IL protection against the larger lar er Injects It believes that thal It would pay Ila every eer farmer to ralso a largo nock flock of oC turkeys each year sim simply ply for tor tho value they thc would bo h In III keeping down clown the number of grass grasshoppers grasshoPpers hoppers and other Insect II pests Tho fowls sold and used nt at home would present more than clear gain for they consume very or little valuable feed dur dm during InS ing the thc growing period In summer and an autumn and a IL t ock of o twenty turkeys s sI is I worth at n l least it year to IL of r forty acres s or or morein the thc to crop pests According to our contemporary IA A flock ot or turkeys s takes a wide swath yath In their harvesting of or insects and weed seed They The advance a L como com company pany o or soldiers walking abreast mid arid separated a It few fow feet Cert apart cleaning everything in their tl path Wo We followed and w a flock fiock one on day da this September and found that they the were ere very er quicksand nd skillful in catching their that very ery few Insects escaped csap d the keen ke nY eye anu thrust on on a weed seed ed t id simply stripped tr 1 1 d the o I f plants pl The am each cacti turkey was Astonishing ast h Jr demonstrated I that wild birds destroy de tro annually y m of noxious insects and seeds Their I value to the tho farmers o othe the country runs ui un Into lito tho of millions of dollars ln ni fad fact it Is very er likely that nearly early II all aft farm 1 crops 1015 would w be Ie as Ii total l failure fl from Insect ravages rn If these natural destroyers the lr I should suddenly s id 1 I IdIe die There is no telling what wh t the con sequences would be beThe The Insect t g habit of or wild wll birds holds equally true truc of domestic Y is very tY strong turkeys i amount mount o wild In them i t They Thoy are arc natural na ur LI of the Holds lp 1 l ve veon on an almost ful Insects In octH and weed or seed They T l y de de s ln untold d amounts I Possibly ly the turkey y in 1 its i In natural ural check upon tho th Increase In ot of tho hordes At t any arl rate Iato the t fad fact l ai the they are natives of f this this country tr sug esis that they may have Ila flYOd an un p rf inv In l tho hu equilibrium between t e I other forms of o animal life if It would seem to be bo both p and IId to inake nal c a w specialty of r th ful ul hh s on tIC the farm Here in lit the West Vot where the grass grasshopper grasshopper hopper scourge Is i I Ia a nys Imminent there la 11 an additional l reason In favor r roC of oC mol attempts H r oio to the th rather d of oral eral raising l of f Ie |
