Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1897 — TURKEY-EATING HORSE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TURKEY-EATING HORSE.

Had Eaten Twenty-five Before He Was Discovered. ’Squire Letch Weathers, who lives near Clintonville, Ky., has a horse which knows a good thing when he sees it. Mrs. Weathers raises turkeys for market. She had thirty young turkeys, all doing well and fattening nicely. She turned them loose in the farmyard where the horse was accustomed to graze. From time to time the turkeys would show up short. The good lady thought a fox or some other “varmint”

was stealing them, but the strung* thing about it was that they disappeared by day always, while the wild animals which eat poultry generally da their work at night. The young turkeys kept on disappearing. Mrs. Weathers was heartbroken, but no amount of watching did any good. At last only six were left. On* morning Mrs. Weathers heard a commotion among the poultry, and, goinf to the door, she was just in time to se* the twenty-fifth turkey disappearing into the mouth of the family horse. Th* horse now grazes elsewhere. Th* ’Squire declares he cannot afford t* feed him on turkey any longer.

HAS A TASTE FOR TURKEY.