SELECTION OP PARENT STOCK. 



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market the largest birds, and to breed from late turkeys 

 and small gobblers. This inevitably decreases the size, 

 and runs out the stock. There is a constant temptation 

 to get the largest amount of money possible from the 

 flocks in one season, but the returns are less in the long 

 run. Save the best for breeders. Some experts change 



FIG. 14. A MISSOURI PRIZE-WINNING BRONZE. 



A. portrait by Sewell for Farm Poultry, of the first-prize bird at the Mid-Conti- 

 nental (St Louis) show. On this bird " was a plumage with a luster like bur- 

 nished copper; with saddle tips almost pure white, on a body with lines truly 

 thoroughbred, and as a thirty-six pound yearling was a most shapely Bronze 

 gobbler. He carried a deep, round breast, and thick thighs; heavily meated, 

 with fine-grained flesh. He was a quick-maturing torn of twenty-eight pounds 

 at six months and two weeks of age." 



gobblers every season, or every other season, but they 

 either test the gobbler as a breeder, or know how his prog- 

 eny have turned out before they depend upon him. It is 



