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POULTRY CULTURE 



cities who are engaged in buying and dressing poultry. The 

 tendency, however, is for growers to fatten their own geese, hence 

 the fatteners use mostly geese from districts where growers are 

 rather indifferent to market demands. 



Turkey growing. Although much more generally engaged in 

 than goose growing, turkey culture is another branch never devel- 

 oped on a large scale. Unlike the other lines mentioned, special 



Fig. 70. Bronze turkeys in woods at 



Simsbury, Connecticut. (Photograph 



from Valley Farm) 



Fig. 7 1 . Turkey roost in shelter of 



barn, on the Horace Miner Farm, 



Westerly, Rhode Island 



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Fig. 72. A family of White Holland 

 turkeys 



Fig. 73. A family of Black Norfolk 

 turkeys 



attention to turkey growing is oftenest found in the western states, 

 and production in the East steadily decreases. This is due partly to 

 changed labor conditions and partly to the fact that the large farms 

 of the West afford conditions more favorable to the keeping of large 

 flocks of turkeys. It is quite commonly believed that the decline 

 of turkey growing in the East, and especially in Rhode Island and 

 eastern Connecticut, where it was once an important industry, is 



