CHAPTER IX 



MAY 



/"~\F course every self-supporting home will 

 ^-^ desire to raise its own national Thanks- 

 giving dinner ; therefore turkeys must augment 

 the stock. The prevailing idea that these 

 birds are difficult to raise compelled our 

 outraging patriotic customers for several sea- 

 sons, until my admiration for a beautiful 

 white gobbler at a poultry show brought 

 about an introduction to his owner, and sub- 

 sequently an arrangement to spend a week 

 on his farm, studying in actual operation the 

 methods of feeding and brooding formulated 

 during the twelve years he had made a busi- 

 ness of marketing turkeys. 



The farm was situated on the side of a hill, 

 sufficiently imposing to be called a mountain 

 by the New England folks. To one side of 

 the house and barn sixty acres were heavily 



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