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Show BRONZE TURKEY BEST KNOWN Male Bird Sometimes Reaches Ener metis Proportions Smaller Fowls More In Demand. The largest and perhaps the best "known of. the domesticated turkey Is the bronze, sometimes called the mammoth mam-moth bronze. The male bird of this 1reed reaches an enormous size sometimes. some-times. The standard weight for the torn Is SO pounds and for the ben 20 pounds. Generally the heavier weights are found among the breeding birds, and are not for sale. As a matter of experience ex-perience breeders find that the great- Bronze Turkey Tom. est demand for the hollduy trade Is for the smaller birds suitable for a dinner for nn ordinary family. The plumage of the bronze Is very attractive. The fenthers are bronze or lull black with bands of white across. The bronze tint glvus pleuslng color efTocts. One common objection has been that tbe bnmze hn Is not a very good layer. Hut it Is generally found that laying Is largely tin Individual churnc-. churnc-. ' teiisttc. Mirny prefer thp bronze and generally this br'd by fHr outnumbers the others on the holiday market. The bronze turkeys are close descendants de-scendants of the American wild turkey, tur-key, which Is still found In some parts of our country. The young of the doiiieMtlcjted birds noon kIiow a tendency ten-dency to wander In search of food. They can fly to an uHtonUhlng height when it becomes necessary. |