MISS MAHANEY AT TURKEY PARK
MARGARET MAHANEY
Talks About Turkeys
More than a century and a quarterago there was fired in Concord,Mass., a shot that was heardaround the world. This shot terminatedthe domination of monopoly andmarked the opening of a new era,—thebuilding of a new empire.
Not less important to all lovers ofturkeys is the shot fired in this samebeautiful old town by Margaret Mahaney,when she first put an end to thebogy that has been hovering over theTurkey industry so long, i. e., Blackhead.Not less triumphant has beenher conquest of practically all the ailmentsbesetting this beautiful bird.
It is really beyond belief that MissMahaney has raised in a season 300turkeys with a loss of less than 2 percent, when for years the ExperimentStations and Agricultural Colleges, aswell as nearly all poultrymen, haveclaimed that turkeys could not be raisedin this State. All would recognize thisas wonderful work if applied to chickens,but when accomplished with turkeysit is doubly wonderful. Thesesame Experiment Station directors hadtold Miss Mahaney that she could notdo the things she was already accomplishing,but when they visited herfarm they held up their hands and departed,acknowledging that here was awoman who had performed the miracle.
MISS MAHANEY’S $150.00 PRIZE TOM
Miss Mahaney was a wonderfullycapable trained nurse who broke downat her work and was ordered to thecountry to save her life, urged particularlyto take up some out-of-door work.Poultry keeping appealed to her fromthe first, but turkeys particularly forthe reason of the difficulties to be surmounted.If she could do what otherscould not she would be satisfied. Anyonecould raise chickens, but hardlyanyone could raise turkeys. Here wasa task that delighted her and a problemthat appealed to her. The difficultiesshe encountered would have discouragedany one but a pioneer of hercharacter. Her deep maternal instinct(