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Show WHERE THF BIRDS ARE BRED Small Farms Are Large Producers of Piece de Resistance of the Thanksgiving Feast. Although there are many great tur-Vey tur-Vey ranches, and whole communities 1 MM which live principally prin-cipally upon the raising of turkeys- for market, such as Cuero, Tex., whose annual an-nual turkey para pa-ra d e preceding Thanksgiving in cludes thousands of turkeys bound for northern markets, as a rule turkeys are raised in small groups on farms which are interested in other commodities. com-modities. They are often the sole dependence de-pendence of the farmer's wife for pocket money throughout the year, and many a farmer's daughter also has been able to make a shining appearance ap-pearance in her world of fashion principally prin-cipally through the successful marketing market-ing of the turkey brood. On the 5,000,000 farms of the United States there were, according to careful statistics taken some years ago, only 6,500,000 turkeys. Texas led among the states, producing 650,000. The other states which were large producers produc-ers were Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Ohio and Indiana. The state of Rhode Island,, Is-land,, noted as it Is for its turkeys, produced pro-duced only 5,000. But the quality of the Rhode Island turkeys always has been excellent and they usually bring prices vastly in excess of those from other parts of the country. And that ought to be enough about turkeys to get up a pretty good appetite appe-tite for Thursday's dinner! |