CHAPTER XH 



TURKEYS AND A FOOTRACE 



[ID you ever think that one of the main 

 reasons of the difficulty our farmers 

 have of realizing more than a moder- 

 ate competency from the cultivation 

 of a New England farm is the want of a good 

 market 



The cities and large towns are few in number 

 and so small, and the Boston markets for farm 

 products of the perishable kinds are supplied by 

 the larger, nearer, and more fertile farms and 

 market gardens of suburban towns. 



But for hardy perennials, such as chickens, 

 ducks, lambs, goats, calves, and woodchucks, 

 there is. and ever has been, a fairly good market, 

 and much money has been made in the cultiva- 

 tion of such products. 



Thirty or forty years ago, and as far prior 

 thereto as the memory of man runneth, even to the 

 time the first white man landed in America and 

 on the solar plexus of the amber-hued aborigine, 

 the sound of the turkey was heard in the land and 

 vied with the song of the birds, the nasal tones 



