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Title: Livestock farming in Florida along the lines of the Florida east coast railway..
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Florida east coast railway company
Subjects: Livestock
Publisher: Saint Augustine, Fla., Land and industrial dept. of the Florida east coast railway (Flagler system)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ey always command a market at seventy-fivecents to ninety cents each, while eggs will average the year aroundthirty-five cents a dozen. Turkeys THE business of raising turkeys for market has not been goneinto extensively in Florida. Indeed, the entire country has notoverdone the business of turkey raising as the census of 1900shows that on five million farms in the United States a littleover six and a half million turkeys were produced. The fact thata southern state, Texas, produced the greatest number of these birds,makes it appear that they are adapted to a warm climate, andthat may be one reason why the limited experiments that have beenconducted in Florida have proven successful. The turkey in Floridarequires a good range, plenty of grit and a reasonable proportion of Page fifty-six lllllllimilll rfTTTTTTTTTT lllllllllllllllllQin rm iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin mi mini iiilllllllll Illlllllllliiiin i nnmin hihiiiiiuii iiiiiiiiiiimiimi mi i it FLORIDA EAST COAST RAILWAY UH
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Flock of Turkeys near Indian River City, Brevard County wheat and scratch-corn. Regardless of the fact that Christmas andThanksgiving in Florida are snowless, the turkey is the main featureof the dinner menu, and it never fails to command a fancy price. In-asmuch as young turkeys particularly are delicate, Floridas mildwinters minimize the risk in raising them to a great extent. In the central and southern portions of the state birds need only tobe protected from rain and cold winds. It is, however, consideredadvisable to provide sufficient shelter to meet any emergency. Ducks and Geese MOST varieties of ducks and geese do exceptionally well inFlorida. The wild species of both varieties of these waterfowl winter in the state by the millions, especially is this truein the case of ducks. Of the tame ducks, the Indian Runner breedseems to be the best for all purposes. W. S. Maxwell, of Melbourne,Florida, states that he experimented to quite an extent with IndianRunner ducks with very gra

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