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the seaboard to overflowing with turkies. It is not the case 

 though, they are still in great demand, and would be, probably, 

 if there were five times as many mouths enough for all, and at 

 good paying prices ; such is the rapid increase of our country in 

 population. Large cities and towns in the interior, as well as on 

 the seaboard, must all be supplied, and no doubt are, as every 

 family must and will have their roast turkey at certain seasons. 

 Among others, those who raise them must and do consume their 

 share, and that fully, as none deserve it more and can better af- 

 ford it. Our*own State, New- York, and many others, no doubt, 

 raise and send large numbers to our markets every year, in pro- 

 portion to their size and population, of perhaps nearly or quite as 

 many as Pennsylvania. We have no statistics or data to found a 

 calculation upon of the numbers raised in other quarters, but 

 from what we have heard and seen in travelling in different direc- 

 tions, we know that most of our farmers, large and small, raise 

 more or less turkies every year, but many of them not in num- 

 bers that they ought, and would be to their interest to raise. 

 Those possessing large farms turn their attention mostly to the 

 grains, grasses, and fattening of cattle, and make poultry merely 

 incidental to these branches, considering it rather a small, trou- 

 blesome business. Profit is the great object in all occupations, 

 and if fruit, garden vegetables, poultry, &c., used to be thought a 

 small concern in the Atlantic states, should now, from various 

 causes, be the most profitable, they loose the character of small- 

 ness and become great, and should be pursued to a much greater 

 extent than heretofore. This must and will be the case in time, 

 and our farmers, like every other class of community, will most 

 of them adapt and shape their farming operations to meet this 

 change and new state of things. 



The turkey is said to be a proud, vain, silly bird, we suppose 

 because he struts, gobbles, and shows his feathers, when excited 

 or provoked by the strong passions of love, pride or anger. Most 

 others of our brute animals do the same ; that noble one, the 

 horse, takes pride at times in showing his fine figure by capering 

 prancing and neighing, not only to attract notice and admiration 

 from his fellows, but from man. The human species, endowed 

 with reason, sometimes evince the same weakness, if it may be so 



