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“MINI” TURKEYS.— A British housewife, who started to breed turkeys to help her husband meet a tax debt, has beaten scientists employed by major commercial firms in Britain in producing a small bird that tastes as good as a big one. The breeder, Mrs Carta Stafford-Lewis, started with three small freak birds, then crossed and recrossed their smallest progeny. She now has a flock of 1200, all of them branding true to type. The birds weigh nine pounds when mature and six pounds when ready for the oven.

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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31500, 14 October 1967, Page 2

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“MINI” TURKEYS.—A British housewife, who started to breed turkeys to help her husband meet a tax debt, has beaten scientists employed by major commercial firms in Britain in producing a small bird that tastes as good as a big one. The breeder, Mrs Carta Stafford-Lewis, started with three small freak birds, then crossed and recrossed their smallest progeny. She now has a flock of 1200, all of them branding true to type. The birds weigh nine pounds when mature and six pounds when ready for the oven. Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31500, 14 October 1967, Page 2

“MINI” TURKEYS.—A British housewife, who started to breed turkeys to help her husband meet a tax debt, has beaten scientists employed by major commercial firms in Britain in producing a small bird that tastes as good as a big one. The breeder, Mrs Carta Stafford-Lewis, started with three small freak birds, then crossed and recrossed their smallest progeny. She now has a flock of 1200, all of them branding true to type. The birds weigh nine pounds when mature and six pounds when ready for the oven. Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31500, 14 October 1967, Page 2