. First report of game and fish warden for New Mexico. 1909-1910-1911 . ally to pot turkeys on the roost. Another practice is to lie inambush and lure the game by imitating the call note of the hen in writer has personal knowledge of such methods of hunting in Virginiaand Maryland, and they are largely responsible for the extermination now im-minent. Trapping turkeys in pens—a very simple matter—has also acceleratedthe destruction of the species. REPORT OF GAME AND FISH WARDEN FOR NEW MEXICO. 43 As with our tame turkey, the raising of the young wihl turkey presents manydifficulties
. First report of game and fish warden for New Mexico. 1909-1910-1911 . ally to pot turkeys on the roost. Another practice is to lie inambush and lure the game by imitating the call note of the hen in writer has personal knowledge of such methods of hunting in Virginiaand Maryland, and they are largely responsible for the extermination now im-minent. Trapping turkeys in pens—a very simple matter—has also acceleratedthe destruction of the species. REPORT OF GAME AND FISH WARDEN FOR NEW MEXICO. 43 As with our tame turkey, the raising of the young wihl turkey presents manydifficulties as the chicks are very delicate and exceedingly sensitive to the wet. Audu-bon says, that during wet weather they are fed by their mothers with buds ofspice brush much as human youngsters arc dosed with quinine. When the young wild turkeys are two weeks old they roost on low brancheswith the mother, as Ijy tlie time they have reached this stage they have passedmany of their early ills. The condition of the wikl turkey in New Mexico is most excellent, and they are. WHO AVOULDXT BE A BOY AGAIN? increasing rapidly at the present time, now being very plentiful in the mountaindistricts. 1 have reports from reliable sources that as many as one hundred and tift}wild turkeys have been seen together at one time this season in Eio Arriba countv,where they are said to be found in great numbers, tliey are ap])earing, as well,in districts where they have not been seen for many years past. Of course, the wild turkey is still, as he has always been, the prize for whichthe huntsman seeks with the greatest zest, and he holds his place without fear ofrivalrv, orf the festal board; neither Thanksgiving nor Christmas being consideredproperly recognized without tlie ])resence of tliis cherished viand as the piece deresistance. ]f ho is of tlie wild vnrictv bis value is greatlv enhanced. 44 REPORT OF GAME -AND FISH WARDEN FOR NEW MEXICO. The food of the wild turkey is both animal and vegetable,
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