Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1894 — Large “Gobblers." [ARTICLE]

Large “Gobblers."

The American bronze is the largest !of all turkeys. Some of the weights attained by it are almost fabulous. Birds have been known to reach more than fifty pounds, and a “gobbler" was imported some time ago by (the secretary of the Turkey,.Breeders’ <Club of Peterborough which weighed forty-five pounds and was a magnificent specimen of his The records of the great Birmingham show tell of old turkey cocks exhibited there weighlng mArly forty pounds, of hens thirty pounds, of young cocks tvtenty-nine pounds, and of young hens nineteen pounds; but these are birds fed up for the purpose, and are exceptional