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Show Turkey's Natural Food Lines Often Overlooked. Then there are a good many persons per-sons working with turkeys in a small way who do not recognize one of the turkey's natural food lines; they fail to remember, if they ever knew, that the turkey's food in its wild state consisted con-sisted chiefly of insects, beechnuts, acorns, berries, and so forth, with but little corn. The average poultry raiser rais-er who has not studied Mr. Turkey's former habits of life feeds too much corn and corn-meal, the latter especially. especial-ly. So much corn-meal for small turkeys tur-keys tends to pack the crop and cause indigestion and liver trouble. |