CHAPTER XIV 



TURKEYS, GUINEAS, PEAFOWLS, PIGEONS 



OF the species of poultry aside from the hen, 

 ducks and geese, none has risen to great popu- 

 larity in North America except the turkey. The 

 various kinds of pheasants and peafowls are 

 grown more for fancy than for profit. At all 

 events, they are not to be considered as impor- 

 tant farm fowls. 



TURKEYS 



The wild turkey is a native of North America 

 and still abounds in the natural forests of Penn- 

 sylvania, Virginia and other Atlantic states. It 

 is also found in Tennessee and Kentucky and is 

 abundant in some of the western states, but its 

 principal home in the eastern United States at 

 the present time is in the mountainous regions of 

 the Atlantic states. Like many other species of 

 game it is rapidly disappearing, due to the great 

 changes made by man in his onward march 

 of civilization. Man is a great disturbing force 

 of nature's equilibrium when he removes the for- 

 ests in order to prepare the land for cultiva- 



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