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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Nov 15, 2016 - 08:42pm PT
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Reilly! I was impressed to see that some Idaho farmers ran turkeys like most ran sheep or cattle.
From the current issue of National Geographic.
Turkey farming helped countless families weather the Great Depression—and it was often farm wives who ran the cottage industry. This Idaho woman, camouflaged within an impressive flock in 1940, was likely one such businesswoman.
Hatching time could be chaotic: “Turkeys in the parlor, turkeys on the chair, turkeys in the dishpan, turkeys everywhere,” exclaimed an Emmett, Idaho, newspaper in 1933. But the birds didn’t just have the run of the house. They had the hills too.
Before commercial farming overtook the family enterprise by the mid-century, says Idaho historian Madeline Buckendorf, farm kids herded the birds “much like sheep.” She still cherishes the bell her grandfather would place on the “lead” turkey’s neck so the flock could be heard “when turned out to graze on the sagebrush-covered hillsides of the canyon.”
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Nov 15, 2016 - 09:11pm PT
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 15, 2016 - 09:26pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 16, 2016 - 10:06am PT
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I don't get it, Reilly...those are paired so they can't be Canadian. ;0)Fritz, that is the way that the Fosters started Foster Farms in Modesto...baby-sitting turkey eggs all night, turning them, and then raising the chicks...in 1939 they invested $1,000 on a turkey farm there.
The Fosters probably never made a splash in the Forbes list like your home-grown JR Simplot, also starting out on a relatively thin budget.
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snakefoot
climber
Nor Cal
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Nov 16, 2016 - 02:12pm PT
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 17, 2016 - 07:03am PT
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
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Nov 17, 2016 - 07:08am PT
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to see that some Idaho farmers ran turkeys like most ran sheep or cattle.
Back when turkeys were turkeys. These white abominations on turkey farms nowadays---eek.
Why back in my day in Western Pa we went out the back and shot us a wild turkey just cruising by down by the crick.
Susan
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Nov 17, 2016 - 09:52am PT
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 17, 2016 - 11:14am PT
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the museum
Trad climber
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Nov 17, 2016 - 05:57pm PT
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triple turn Vedauwoo
the museum
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Nov 17, 2016 - 06:14pm PT
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It lived up to its name for me. you?
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the museum
Trad climber
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Nov 17, 2016 - 07:41pm PT
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Oh yes, objectionalby wide, offensively unavailable placed pro to grab and ,well, yes, with brief tri-rific struggling..
fun times
the museum
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Nov 17, 2016 - 09:23pm PT
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Woooohooo!
Susan grew up saying crik too! (Just like me in deepest central Idaho.)
Why back in my day in Western Pa we went out the back and shot us a wild turkey just cruising by down by the crick.
Susan
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 18, 2016 - 07:42am PT
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Edge
Trad climber
Betwixt and Between Nederland & Boulder, CO
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Nov 18, 2016 - 08:09am PT
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Nov 19, 2016 - 08:07am PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 19, 2016 - 08:38am PT
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Nov 19, 2016 - 09:41am PT
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the museum
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Nov 19, 2016 - 08:02pm PT
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the museum
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