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Show Buff Turkey Not Among Recognized Varieties Whether or not the Buff turkey has become extinct, it has evidently lost its place in official recognition as a variety. The present standard recognizes six varieties, among which the Buff does not appear. A Department of Agriculture publication publica-tion of something over 30 years ago, while recognizing the Buff as a variety, va-riety, says of it that it is not general-lyknown general-lyknown throughout the country and, in many localities, is almost unknown. un-known. The standard calls for a pure buff color throughout, says this publication, publica-tion, but this shade of coloring is seldom seen. "As bred for market, these turkeys are of a reddish buff or light chestnut color, mixed with white and some dark shadings." It would seem very likely that this variety va-riety has become merged with the Bourbon Red of similar colorings and its identity lost. It may be that some may still be able to offer pure golden yellow turkeys of the old Buff variety but the chances are, says a writer in the Rural New-Yorker, New-Yorker, that the offering would be what has been found before, Buff Bourbon Reds. Here would appear an opportunity to back-track to an old and lost variety and make it of such distinction as to call for favorable favor-able recognition. |