TURKEYS. 
WHERE turkeys are numerous a great many are trapped every 
year by the native hunters by methods which do not redound to the 
intelligence of the turkeys. A place is found where they are in the 
habit of ‘‘ using,” as it is called. Corn is scattered about, and, if 
that is eaten, more corn is placed there the next day. They are fed 
in this manner for a week or more, until the turkeys become accus- 
tomed to going there for food. Then small logs are laid, forming 
a square box about six or eight inches in height ; possibly two 
logs on each side, one above the other. In this is placed the corn, 
and the turkeys enter it readily, as the obstruction is not sufficient to 
make them fear any harm. The next night another log is added on 
the four sides, raising the box gradually, perhaps a foot or so each 
night, until the small logs form a cone-shaped box, narrowing at 
the top, leaving an opening of perhaps a foot or eighteen inches by 
which they can enter at the top. Corn is placed in the box anda 
few kernels leading to it, as usual, and the turkeys, mounting the 
last log, enter it and eat up the corn. The opening has now become 
so narrow that, although a turkey can easily jump down through it 
with closed wings, it is impossible to jump out of it with wings 
spread. I have tried this method on one or two occasions, but with- 
out success, although I have no doubt as to the truth of the state- 
ment, which is vouched for by a number of old residents and 
hunters. 
Another style of trapis a log pen with a large tunnel under one 
side. The turkeys follow the corn through the tunnel and do not 
attempt to go back the same way, but run about the sides of the 
pen, poking their heads through the openings between the logs. 
Turkeys are still numerous in some parts of Florida, although 
they have been practically exterminated in many localities where 
they were once common. They are gregarious and usually prefer 
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