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Show Move to Save Wild Turkeys. The prisoners in the state penitentiary peniten-tiary of Washington run. among other things, a game bird farm. Until lately they have raised wild turkeys for the Thanksgiving dinner for the convicts. The fact that wild turkeys have been killed in such numbers in the forests of the western part of the state that they have almost disappeared lias caused the state game warden to decide to take up the business of raising them on n larger scale and flneita v 111 hereafter here-after be liberated each summer to populate the woods. The wild turkeys are larger and hardier than the domestic breeds, and the warden, whose name Is L. R. Darwin, Dar-win, is experimenting with crossbreeds. cross-breeds. He hopes to develop a bird that will be useful to poultrymen and yet be able to sustain Itself in the woods. |