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[Illustration: MISS MAHANEY AT TURKEY PARK]

                            MARGARET MAHANEY

                         _Talks About Turkeys_


                               Price, $1.00




                             Margaret Mahaney

                           TALKS ABOUT TURKEYS

                                   _By_
                             MARGARET MAHANEY




                         THE SKILLFUL NEW ENGLAND
                       RAISER TELLS US SOME OF THE
                        SECRETS OF THE SUCCESSFUL
                            RAISING OF TURKEYS

                              _PUBLISHED BY_

                          THE PARK & POLLARD CO.

                              BOSTON, MASS.




                            Copyright 1913 by
                          THE PARK & POLLARD CO.
                          Boston, Massachusetts

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                              INTRODUCTION

                           BY PHILIP R. PARK


  More than a century and a quarter ago there was fired in Concord,
  Mass., a shot that was heard around the world. This shot terminated
  the domination of monopoly and marked the opening of a new