AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
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VOLUME XXVII.— No. 10. 
NEW YORK, OCTOBER, 1868. 
NEW SERIES— No. 2G1. 
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"WILD TURKEY S— Drawn from Life by Derrick. 
The turkey is the largest ami one of the most 
beautiful game birds in the world ; it is, more- • 
orcr, peculiarly our own — a genuine native 
American fowl. Ii lias all the royal grace and 
dignity of tbe forcsl chiefs who with it have 
im Ited before civilization and the destruction of 
the timber. It has, however, qualities of shy- 
ness and caution, which have preserved it iu 
some localities long after the grand hard wood 
forests have been succeeded by the humbler 
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second growth. Every State of the Union was 
once the home of (he wild turkey, but now, east 
of the Alleghauics, it is almost unknown. Do- 
mestication is easily accomplished, and cross- 
es with the domestic species are made with 
great advantage. The wild turkey is distin- 
guished from others by the entire lack of white 
bands or tips on the feathers, by its more deli- 
cate head, the bluer color of the naked skin of 
the head, the longer and larger tuft of hair up- 
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for the American Agriculturist. 
on the breast, and by the more brilliantly metal- 
lic hues of the feathers of the ueck and body. 
The legs are also longer and more slender. 
Turkeys seldom gain their full growth before 
they arc five years old, and an old wild gobbler 
of large size is one of the most magnificent of 
birds, being remarkable for the glow of cop- 
pery red, purple and golden hues which 
flash over his back, and the changing tints 
of the peculiar carunculations of the neck. 
