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Show J Edward Payson Weston of cross- J eountry fame has found his match in the Ozarks. It is a turkey gob-j gob-j bier. This first citizen of America is swift of wing so many hunters have learned since the days of the Pilgrim fathers, but that h also Is ""nl swift of foot is being found out by the farmers of the Ozarks who raise large numbers of the birds for i the market and drive them to the trains in droves. The great-great-granddaughter of the goose girl of yc olden U time is li'clng in the Ozarks J of Northern Arkansas, and there is herding turkeys and geese just as in the days of old her ancestor an-cestor famed in verse and art drove j her gees to grass and water and finally to market In London town. Contrary to popular belief a goose I can bo driven. So can the great ! American bird the turkey. For downright silliness, there is nothing I to equal a goose unless it be a tur key, but when It comes to driving ' ! both are rather docile- if you know how and the modern goose girls of . - the Ozarks are just as skilled as H I the old goose girl. I The goose herder of ye olden time ' was called a goosehcrd or a goz- j' zard. He drove his flocks to Lon- -V I , don, allowing them to feed on the iv, I j way. They could go about a mil -I I ! an hour and would travel ten hours I I 1 a day. With the breaking up of le arrns and the more modern : . j methods of transportation. the . r''""'' I goose has been given a train to rid wf1 on wnen no wishes to go to tbi I shambles. Tne turkey, having his origin in sjdEm&gjf? I the United States, never had to K&SEftf larn the art of walking until the 55' ff 71 present colony of goose and turkey EH''jj herders found the line feeding jHEgg&pM grounds of the Ozarks. Every HBBkJ?'4 spring young birds are raised in the gSEPpI Ossark poultry farms. They are KBSjjl J given the range of the hills and rn&j' there they sppnd the summer feast- HrafflP&gm ing on bugs and grasshoppers. KBctotJ There Is no more skilled expert twKgfesgjy at the art of catching grasshop- HBjWWyfegi per than the aspiring turkey gob- jaaSyl bier. With head cocked on one MSm! side the young turkey can squint jflpffilffi-g: out ot tno side of nls head and take HBHBfKj such perfect aim that when he lets HpKs&Vni his head By toward the grasshop- PsKSSSlw, P? il means death and destruction. gOgS So sw ift is the turk s head the BHWBB&'Ts! grasshopper hasn t a ghost of a BHaBgjn chance and all his uncles and aunts IMMfejj mournfully sing: jjMm "Grasshopper sat on a sweet po- fBSSSSM 18,10 vlne" Turke' gobbler came up BNHmPHI from behind and snat heel him off MuMHaBBtM the sweet potato vine " HHjffinl With a diet of grasshoppers, the HfiHntft turkeys and geese of the Ozarks HSKjw grow fat. They are fed by the poul- HBSgra try man at the roosting place each BHMBi evening so they will sret the habit HBBHBr Of coming home earn night. By HHffj day they are allowed the ransre of HEi the hills. WBtHB&k tttrkkys can walk BHnKg 15 MILES A DAY. Unl When marketing time comes the HHflKS' flocks are driven to market Just as IHHn iheeP or cattle are driven The HHS1 big goose and turkey lands of the Ozarks lie in th.it region which Is poorly supplied with railroads. As a result the quickest nit do of transportation trans-portation is driving. Turkeys are strong animals and can travel fifteen miles a day. West Plains. Mo , just north of the Arkansas lino, is one of the liveliest live-liest turkey markets in the fall of the year. The birds are driven the wood They are still found In sTrot. some parts of New England, in the fAW-vJvJ .:irks and In the Everglades f I'OliUJ j 111 Florida. In various parts of the I JnxJuJXjL Alleghenies they sometimes are 1 j found by hunters, but everywhere jr I fro they have been practically ex- j terminated in the United States. ILih f Tii.- Mrd ij so large it can not hide I f easily. Other game birds have sur- i j n At down the mountains thirty or forty-five forty-five miles away and make a Strang sight when they enter the streets of West Plains. It takes a skilled driver to bring the birds to market without losing' part of the flock. Turkeys can fly for a considerable distance One year when Charles Snelllnger, whose birds feed on the mountains just south of the Arkansas State line, was driving his flock of l.L'OO turkeys into West Plains they took fright at an automobile and rising in the air scattered. That night they roosted in the ornamental and shade trees through the residence district of the city. Many of them v. ore pulled down by the residents and cooked. Tt took two days before be-fore the survivors were collected and more thun '100 birds never were recovered. When the birds once reach the b'.i.sin.--s dbtrjet there is little trouble trou-ble Jn driving them. They are cor-nered cor-nered between the rows of buildings on each side of the street and with (hree or four skillful drivers who know enough about the nature of the birds not to excite them It Is not difficult to drive them tt"rough the streets. The turkey Is the most recently domesticated fowl. When the Pii-crlm Pii-crlm fathers canio to America turkeys tur-keys wers found in abundance in vived the slaughter by the white man because of their ability to hide In the grass and to bring up their young unnoticed: Not so with the turkey. The turkey was marked for slaughter the minute the white, man landed on the Atlantic shore. Had he not been domesticated ho would have been almost cxtorrhln-ated cxtorrhln-ated long ago. The domesticated turkey is valuable val-uable on account of his great size and for that reason Is eagerly sought for a holiday feast. The goose is sought for the same reason. The flesh Is no better than that of smaller fowls. TRAFFIC TFED CP BY TURKEY DROVE. In St. Louis the Remley Meat and Grocery Company recently shipped In such large quantities of turkeys and gee.ve they drove them to the .slaughtering house from the trains instead of loading them on wagons. As the birds waddled between be-tween the rows Ot high buildings they attracted u ureal crowd Of spectators. They even tied up traffic traf-fic along the streets they traversed. Turkeys are difficult to raise on count of their proneness to get w t during rain ftorms in the summer sum-mer an! then chilling to death. When real young they often die when chilled by running through the dew. Although they are of delicate constitution when young they rapidly gain strength with age. An old turkey gobbler is hard to kill. When he becomes several years old his toughness begins to he reflected In the meat. The old goose herders of England Eng-land form quite a large part of the children's literature of several con' rations ago Goosa herding formerly was as Important an occupation oc-cupation as any other kind of herding. herd-ing. But the stock ho had to work with was not as easlily handled as cattle and sheep are. Frequently he found himself in many grotesque predicaments. For that reason he became the legitimate legiti-mate prey of humorous writers and songsters of the time. He la always al-ways pictured as a foolish sort of fellow when, in fact, it took a smarter man to be B gooscherd than a shepherd. Geese were raised extensively ex-tensively In Lincoln and Norfolk, counties In England. The birds wore plucked Ave times a year. In the autumn they were driven to London to market. They walked about ten miles a day. As th v drove along the road the birds frequently fed from the fields of the farmers and there often were n r e outbursts due to the rage of the farmers. Records show that a single breeder often sold as high as T.000 geese at one time. As they drove along the roads In autumn they made a picturesque sight. Tho goose is the festive bird of England Just as the turkey Is the festive bird of America. Charles Dickens refers to the gooso as the bird for the Christmas feast. Tho eating of the turkey on festive fes-tive occasions in America began with the first Thanksgiving in Mas- i husetts. Since then it has graced tho Christmas, Thanksgiving, New-Year's New-Year's and other feast tables. Tho goose is of secondary importance. GOOSE A PROPER GIFT' TO A GIUL. Jn Europe they say eat goose for sentiment, but eat goose for your life. They believe that goose meat is betl t than any other kind. In the olden days they had a goose week when goose was tho principal article of diet. Goose grease kept them warm, they i id. A gift of a goose was considered one of the best' a young man could give his lady love This is the rule given by an old French wiso woman: 'If you want to make proper gift to the most lovely girl in nil Iho world buy her a goose. Or take Iipt to the restaurant and feed her goose breast. Aye, anoint her lovely nose with goose grease. With her tea give her a slice of fole gras. For her lunch let her have grilled goose drumsticks. So she shall grow In beauty, strength and gTace, and never sniffle! She won't even have a red nose!" Ah, goose! Friend of man and pretty girls! Look you. sixty Paris little children chil-dren of tho working, clerking classes lived, you might say, practically practi-cally all their waking hours in what they call a cheche a kind of kindergarten kin-dergarten to take care of little ones while mamma earns a salary somewhere some-where The kids get one good meal daily from the city Well, when winter came last year, half were fed goose two times a week nd half were not. These latter suffered usual coughs, colds, croups, fever blisters, colds in the head, sore throats, quinsies, quin-sies, grippes and influenzas. On the other hand, the thirty children who ate gooso were fresh, blithe, sturdy and resistant, untouched, intact, There is a young married thing, who was so sylphlike, willowy, ethereal, ethe-real, poetic and unworldly that she could dance the tango half a night on a lettuce sandwich and a glass of champagne. She caught a cold in the head last winter. And then another. an-other. Then another. GOOSE MEALS CURE BAD COLD. "I will kill myself," she said. "If this continues." It continued She had a good summer at Luchon and Biarritz. When this autumn set In she said: "I will kill myself If it begins again." Of cours her friends were worried. wor-ried. So, a very wise friend, close to one of tho world's greatest laboratories labo-ratories of physiological research, revealed part of a secret whjch was not his own and put her on goose, "It wilt make me fat," she worried. wor-ried. All the same she ate goose, three goose meals per week, and hearty. She Increased five pounds and has not caught the first sign of cold up to the present writing. What Is this occult bird which all France eats as by a pagan ceremony, cere-mony, which has lost Its meaning in the ages? How does the goose work? The goose is truly fat. The goose warms up. When you eat goose It's like the Eskimos when they eat tallow candles. If you are a furnace, goose Is fuel. And so for number one. Numbr two Is like unto ii. Goose fat is peculiar fuel. In some unknown un-known way it digests without heaviness, heavi-ness, embarrassment or plethora. There is no clogging ash. It burns In the body, a pure, stimulant of seeming unique quality in winter. Number three is more so Goose flesh in yef more mysterious manner builds up human tissues In a richer manner needed in cold weather. Goose in summer time is nowise profitable. Goose in summer time is harmful. Yet more, they say. In analogy to certain diverse vegetable and animal elements the whys and to herefores are still but glimpses there are elements in goose me?.t that seem to start the whole machine ma-chine to working: with new force and facility All France eats goose In midwinter midwin-ter for a week although the'y don't know why Half peasant France i its ill winter and don't know why any more than Paris. |