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who." "Quit, quit" would answer Miss Turkey, 

 moving a little farther out on the limb. This 

 would be kept up until the end of the limb was 

 reached and the turkey would be obliged to fly, 

 and then the owl would catch her. From per- 

 sonal observation I know horned owls always 

 push chickens from the roosts and catch them 

 while on the wing. 



A great destroyer of the turkey is rain and 

 long wet spells, just after they are hatched in the 

 months of May and June. I have always no- 

 ticed that, if these months were reasonably dry, 

 there would be plenty of turkeys and quail the 

 following fall. After all, the weather controls 

 the crops of turkeys more than all else. 



The local range of the wild turkey varies in 

 proportion as the food supply is generous or 

 scanty. If food is plentiful, the turkey remains 

 near where hatched, and does not make exten- 

 sive rambles, its daily journeys being limited to 

 a mile or so, and often to not a fourth of that dis- 

 tance. I can not agree with writers who claim 

 that wild turkeys are constantly on the move, 

 travelling the country over with no intention of 



