Show breeder toms should be selected with much care breeders bleeders Bre eders of turkeys should buy toms for next springs breeding pens early for by so doing one has the benefit of first choice to wait until breeding time means that a less desirable male will be the father of next years turkey flock with a consequent increase in no 2 birds lower prices and less profit from next years operations if there is aa flaw in the turkey breed ers makeup make up says bays a writer in the missouri farmer it Is his fancy to flue fine feathers rainbow tails and spots are common words in ills his vocabulary and while it Is true one might as well feed beautiful plumage as well as gray and chocolate colored tails good color Is much less important in breeding stock than vigor for without vigor in the breeding stock the breeder Is headed for the rocks one thing to bear in mind however is the fact that good color in a turkey Is evidence that her ancestors have had the attention of a good breeder and that vigor is more likely to be present than in a bird of poor coloring |