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Wild Turkey Production

Boosted 25 Per Cent

Unless the unforseen happens, and barring accidents, Virginia . sportsmen should see their wild turkey production boosted by 25 per cent this year, so announced officials of the Virginia Game Commission recently.

According to Chester P. Phelps chief of the Commission’s Game Division, the wild turkeys at the Cumberland Game Farm are giving good egg production, and if all goes well the number of birds raised this year should amount to 1,500 birds.

The Virginia system of propagating wild turkeys is unique in the country. Turkey hens, from the previous year’s production, are taken to fenced-in enclosure* in various areas where native wild

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