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A STUDY OF FARM ANIMALS 



20 pounds. This is the most common variety raised. 

 The Narragansett turkey is of a metallic black color, 

 with shadings to steel gray or approaching white. Mature 

 cocks weigh about 30 pounds and hens 18 pounds. 



The White Holland turkey, as its name indicates, has a 

 white plumage. The beard of the male, however, is a deep 

 black in color. Mature cocks weigh about 28 pounds and 

 hens 18 pounds. This is not as hardy a variety as the 



Bronze or Narragansett, 

 but its flesh is highly re- 

 garded, and it is the 

 most domestic and easily 

 controlled of all the 

 breeds. 



The Bourbon Red 

 turkey is a native of 

 Bourbon county, Ken- 

 tucky, and is supposed 

 to have originated from 

 what in early days in 

 Kentucky was known as 

 the wild yellow turkey. 

 The neck, breast, back, 

 body, and fluff of this 

 breed are of a deep, 

 brownish red. It has about the same weight as the Narra- 

 gansett, the males weighing about 30 pounds and the hens 18. 



THE DUCK 



The Mallard, or common wild duck, is regarded as the 

 parent stock, or ancestor, of all domestic ducks. This duck 

 has a broad flat bill, small eye, good-sized head, long neck, 

 full breast, long body, short tail, and short web-footed legs. 

 The body has a dense covering of downy feathers, over which 

 lies the feathery plumage. The thick plumage, which is 



Figure 223. A Bronze turkey, 

 from Poultry Herald. 



Photograph 



