. L'agriculture américaine et l'élevage, avec des faits utiles pour le ménage, consacré à l'agriculture dans tous ses ministères. L'agriculture. Un ERICAX 1442 L31agriculteur. Les dindes. La branche de la Turquie est un descendant de l'Nortli -Le dindon sauvage de l'Amérique, ou d'une espèce de cette race trouvés au Mexique, et qui diffère de la foi-mer seulement par white d'être mélangés avec les sus-caudales et la queue. Il est plus de trois cent cinquante ans que la Turquie n'a été domestiquée, et pourtant, malgré tout, elle conserve encore beaucoup de ses habitudes sauvages, même dans les conditions les plus favorables pour la lutte contre eux. Nort

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. American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments. Agriculture. 1442 THE A31ERICAX FARMER. TURKEYS. THE domestic turkey is a descendant of the -wild turkey of Nortli America, or of a species of this race found in Mexico, and which differs from the foi-mer only by white being mixed with the tail coverts and tail. It is more than three hundred and fifty years since the turkey has been domesticated, yet, notwithstanding, it still retains many of its wild habits, even under the most favorable conditions for counteracting them. North and South America are the habitats of a separate species of this bird; and while that of the latter, also known as the Ocellated Turkey, has been domesticated to but a limited extent, the North American species has greatly increased and multiplied, having been domesticated and bred in all parts of the civilized world. All turkevs. whether of the wild or domestic varieties, breed freely one with the other, and continue prolific, thus proving conchisively that they were origin- ally derived from the same species. The first writer who mentions tlie American Tui-key is supposed to be Ovie- do, who, in 1525, de- scribes them under the name of peacocks, and conmients upon the vast numbers found in this country at that time, their excellence as an article of food, etc. Lopez de Gomara juiblished a book in 1553, in wliicli he de- scribes the wild turkey of America, calling them Gallapai-o, and speaks of their flesh as being delicious. Pedro de Ciesa found them upon the Isthmus of Darien, Dampier in Yucatan, wliile Buffon and otlier later travelers mentioned them as seen in various portions ol' this continent. When the Spaniards conquered Mexico, they found the turkey in a domesticated state, and it is supposed to have been domesticated for several centuries before that period. This bird was introduced into England from America in 1524. It is supposed that they were introduced into Fr