Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1888 — An Indiana “Turkey Foundry. [ARTICLE]

An Indiana “Turkey Foundry.

Letter in Lewiston (Ste.) Journal, “Turkey foundries” are- scattered over the entire State. Six double male earns collect turkeys from within a radios of ten miles and. bring them to this foundry daily. No Hoosier farmer thinks of dressing his own birds for market, but sells them on the hoof to the collectors, receiving six cents per pound for his flock. The ionndry, a building 58x50 feet, without floor —in fact, a mammoth coop, holding 1,600, is kept well filled ov these teams. At one end is a smaller bnilding, the dressing-room, abont 20x10, where ten men, wading almost knee-deep in feathers, pick tar key s at five cents each from morning until night. Each man dresses on the average five an hour, or fifty for tne crew. Necks are wrung for Boston, while throats are stuck for the New York market. One Boy Who Was Not Inquisitive. Texas Siftings. A gentleman who saw a bey peeling the bark from one of his choice trees with a hatchet. The gentleman tried to catch the boy, bat the latter was too quick for him, so the latter changed his “Come here, my little son,” he said, in a soft, flhte-iike voice with counterfeited friendliness, “come here to me a minute. I want to tell you something,” - the^hdy.littls boys like me don’t need to know everything.”