TURKEYS. 1"1 



Christmas board, the price they command is not 

 at all commensurate with their cost; they are 

 defunct debtors. 



To pay, I consider they must be bred in 

 numbers, and on a system of exclusive attention; 

 but a single brood reared on a farm, fed up to 

 great size and weight, and pampered to their 

 heart's content, will, at the period of sale, have 

 cost double its price in food. 



I know many who will bear me out in this. 



Does any one, then, ask, " Is this species to be 

 tabooed in private establishments?" I say, Most 

 certainly not; it cannot be dispensed with, so 

 elegant in life, so useful in death: who ever 

 heard of a dinner without a Turkey? 



"Where attendance is ample, the Turkey may 

 be raised with ease, without any important extra 

 expense in that respect, though its food must, 

 of course, always be a heavy item. 



Adult birds are very hardy, and poults, when 

 fully feathered, will have, in a great measure, 

 survived their earlier delicacy. 



For breeding purposes, birds of mature age, 

 even three or four years, are preferable to those 



