TURKEYS 



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but a great many scattered all over the country. Many, re- 

 mote from places where wild turkeys ranged, paid high prices 

 for full-blooded wild males, and also for grades with a large 

 proportion of wild blood. In this way the wild blood was very 

 widely distributed. As the superiority of the bronze type be- 

 came established, turkey growers everywhere bought Bronze 

 males to head their flocks, and so in a remarkably short time 



FIG. 156. Flock of White Holland Turkeys 



Bronze Turkeys of a type much superior to the old domestic 

 stock became the common turkeys in many districts. 



Interest in the American Bronze Turkey arose in England 

 at a very early stage of this development. In fact, there is some 

 reason to believe that the publicity given to several early ship- 

 ments of small lots of wild turkeys to France and England 

 did more than anything else to direct the attention of breeders 

 in this country to the value of systematic breeding to fix the 

 characters which wild blood introduced. The most celebrated 



