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POULTRY PRODUCTION 



ilouii insects and worms in the fields, and in making them 

 over into a marketable form. 



This is particularly true at the time of grasshopper out- 

 breaks and the like. In 1911, Mr. Coffin, of Scott City, 

 Kansas, had the second crop of 160 acres of alfalfa badly 

 damaged by grasshopj)ers. After the damaged crop was 

 remo\ed, he turned 100 turkeys into the held. Thereafter 

 there was ^'ery little damage done and but few grasshoppers 

 found in the field the last week in August. 



"In 1912, Mr. Maune, of jMcCue, Kansas, raised 140 

 turkeys whose range included 135 acres of alfalfa, 35 of which 

 was left for a seed croj). The seed crop on other fields in 

 that vicinity where no turkeys ranged was entirely destroyed, 

 but this 35 acres set a heavy crop of seed."' 



Fig. 200 



Tiiikc:! a sax'cd this .alfalfa crop. The noi^libuiiiiy fluids were takeu b.v 

 jiras.shoppL'rs. Tlie owner of this field marketed the grasshoppers in the 

 form of turkey meat. {Courtesy of Kansas Agricultural Experiment 

 Station.) 



Selection of Breeding Turkeys. — The same care and atten- 

 tion regarding constitutional \igor, size, trueness to breed 

 type, and color should l)e observed in the selection of 

 breeding turkeys as in fowls, particular attention being 

 given to securing birds that show good size of bone in the 

 shank. 



Birds that are deformed in any way, such as having crooked 



' Kansas Bulletin, No. 215. 



