Description: The Domestic Turkey 1862 This is a wood-engraved single sheet only from the American Agriculturist issue of September, 1862, during the time of our Civil War. It is over 160 years old! The sheet measures 9 x 12 inches in size, and is in excellent and attractive condition, with only a slight bit of age browning. The American Agriculturist was a monthly periodical mostly devoted to articles of interest to farmers. The engraving occupies the top half of the page, with a related text of 54 lines, which says in part: As Americans, we must all feel a pride in this grand bird, the largest of the gallinaceous fowls, the noblest feathered game of our forests and mountains, yielding the most savory flesh, most easily domesticated, and, in its domesticated state, disseminated and valued over the whole civilized world. America, and particularly the United States, is its home. There is hardly a rocky ravine, a hill, or wood-covered mountain from Maine to California, where the wild turkey-cock has not strutted and swelled, puffed and bowed, doing honor to his dame, or where the hen has not led forth her numerous brood. . . . Mixed though our domestic varieties are with those for a long time bred in Europe, still they are constantly crossed with the wild ones of our forests whose eggs are frequently hatched under domestic poultry. . . . The beautiful engraving we present shows the fine contrasts in color of plumage, and the graceful game-like figures of the domestic turkeys. The wild ones are slenderer and better adapted to flight and to running. The flights of the tame birds are often very long; not unfrequently they fly half a mile or more, and the only trouble about keeping them is that they will wander so far, and do such damage in grass and grain fields. This injury is not from what they eat . . . but they do injury by trampling and breaking down the crops. The variety of colors in turkeys is very great. The wild ones vary somewhat, but are prevailingly of a dark, bronzy-brown, of great lustre, showing a beautiful metallic, coppery iridescence. Among tame ones . . . in none does the lustre compare with that of the wild. Occasionally these birds grow to a very large size, the cocks weighing 35 to 40 pounds live weight. . . . Etc. _gsrx_vers_1678 (GS 9.8.2 (1678))
Price: 10.95 USD
Location: Camp Hill, Pennsylvania
End Time: 2024-09-26T01:41:40.000Z
Shipping Cost: 4.75 USD
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