The grapes and plums, so abundant in this portion of the country, are eaten by turkies and black bears, and the plums by wolves or jackals, as we conclude, from observing plumstones in the excrement of one of those animals.
To market the farmers shall shortly repair With their hogs and potatoes, wholesale, thro' the air, Skim over the water as light as a feather, Themselves and their turkies conversing together.
But we have no longer such blessings to boast, No cattle to steal, and no turkies to roast.
I shall now collect from authors the several parts of the world where Turkies are unknown in the state of nature.
Pedro de Ciesa mentions Turkies on the Isthmus of Darien (Seventeen Years Travels, 20).
By the date of the reigns of these monarchs, the firstturkies must have been brought from Mexico, the conquest of which was completed A.
Young turkies should be fed with crumbs of bread and milk, eggs boiled hard and chopped, or with common dock leaves cut fine, and mixed with fresh butter-milk.
Pork sausage meat is sometimes used to stuff turkies or fowls, or fried, and sent up as garnish.
Turkies being extremely delicate fowls, are soon injured by the cold: hence it is necessary, soon after they are hatched, to force them to swallow one whole peppercorn each, and then restore them to the parent bird.
Fowls and turkies are of a mild proper nature for food, but the fattening them in confinement is equally prejudicial, as to other animals already mentioned.
Potatoes boiled in a little water, so as to be dry and mealy, and then cut, and wetted with skim milk that is not sour, will form an agreeable food for poultry, and young turkies will thrive much on it.
Mr. Case, a respectable farmer, at Stratton Strawless, lately sustained a loss of 30 young turkies and 11 goslings, all which a voracious fat sow devoured after a hearty breakfast.
The quantity of turkies sent up to town from Norwich within the last ten days amounted to no less than 30 tons weight, which, averaging each bird at 12 lbs.
The commissions executed and presents sent from this land of turkies greatly exceeded any former year.
All four of the turkies began to skip and run about, keeping pretty close to one another, and changing every minute their position.
The turkies were in the other cage, which had a door of communication with the one having a tin bottom.
When I thought the bottom of the cage sufficiently hot, I drove the turkies from the one to the other, shut the door, and began to strike rapidly and loudly upon the triangle, which I held in my hand.
The sensation of heat which the turkies experienced, caused them to skip about as if they had been possessed with some evil spirit.
A curious method of teaching Turkies to dance at the sound of a triangle, or any other musical instrument.
Saw Deer rackoons and turkies on the Shores to day one of the men killed a racoon which the indians very much admired.
For winter quarters, low shelters may be made for the water-fowls in the yards, and the turkies will frequently prefer to share the shelter of the hens, on the roosts in the house.
But geese and turkiesrequire greater range during the warm season than the others, and should have it, both for convenience to themselves and profit to their owners.
Footnote ff: Wild Turkies are very good Meat, and prodigiously large in Mary-Land.
He brought with him their chief Doctor or Physician, who was warmly and neatly clad with a Match-Coat, made of Turkies Feathers, which makes a pretty Shew, seeming as if it was a Garment of the deepest silk Shag.
The French settlers raise in this province turkies of the same kind with those of France, fowls, capons, &c.
My slave told me, that in his nation they brought up the young turkies as easily as we do chickens.
But he replied Pox on your turkies and you too; I hope you will pay me for the horse I got.
These Turkies remaine all the yeare long, the price of a good Turkey cocke is foure shillings; and he is well worth it for he may be in weight forty pound: a Hen, two shillings.
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