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Beautiful Joe

CHAPTER XVIII MRS
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Now let us go and see my beautiful, bronze turkeys.

They don't need any houses, for they roost in the trees the year round." We found the flock of turkeys, and Miss Laura admired their changeable colors very much.

Some of them were very large, and I did not like them, for the gobblers ran at me, and made a dreadful noise in their throats.
Afterward, Mrs.Wood showed us some ducks that she had shut up in a yard.

She said that she was feeding them on vegetable food, to give their flesh a pure flavor, and by-and-by she would send them to market and get a high price for them.
Every place she took us to was as clean as possible.

"No one can be successful in raising poultry in large numbers," she said, "unless they keep their quarters clean and comfortable." As yet we had seen no hens, except a few on the nests, and Miss Laura said, "Where are they?
I should like to see them." "They are coming," said Mrs.Wood.


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