TURKEY CULTURE. 



CATCHING TURKEYS IN THE FALL. 



Beginners, especially, have much difficulty in securing 

 their turkeys when they desire to kill and market them. 

 A bungling and unsuccessful attempt to catch a flock may 

 make them so suspicious that they cannot be surrounded 

 or approached the remainder of the season. Repeated 

 attempts to catch them increases their wildness, and fre- 



FIG. 21. PROM A PHOTOGRAPH OF BROWNING & CHAPPELL'S FLOCK, 

 RHODE ISLAND. 



quently the only way to secure them has been to shoot 

 them, This is more apt to be the case if the stock con- 

 tains wild bloodo Old hands at the business have learned 

 by experience the proper course to pursue. The usual 

 plan is to get the birds into a barn or carriage shed and 

 shut them in. In order to do this they are fed for a long 

 time in front of or just within the place in which they 



