CHAPTER XIV 



TURKEYS, GUINEAS, PEAFOWLS, PIGEONS 



OF the species of poultry aside from the hen, 

 ducks and geese, none has risen to great popularity 

 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 important 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 forests 

 in order to prepare the land for cultivation. He 



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