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Tidbits® of Gallia, Jackson, Vinton, Meigs & Mason Counties TURKEYS (continued): • During the 1930s, excessive hunting brought the wild turkey population down to about 30,000. A wildlife restoration project was instituted, and today, there are an estimated 7 1. LITERATURE: What famous character lived million wild turkeys across the nation. in the village of Little Whinging? • Are you familiar with all the turkey terms? That 2. LANGUAGE: What does the Greek prefix “pan” mean? flap of skin that hangs over a turkey’s beak 3. SCIENCE: What is the primary substance that is known as a snood. Brightly-colored fleshy makes up most of a plant’s cell walls? bumps on a turkey’s head and throat are called 4. MOVIES: What 1990s comedy movie had the caruncles. Both the snood and caruncles turn tagline, “You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll hurl”? bright red when the bird becomes frightened 5. MYTHOLOGY: What does the Greek goddess Iris personify? or agitated. The wattle, that flap of skin under 6. ENTERTAINERS: What was the name of the turkey’s chin, also changes to bright scarlet singer Michael Jackson’s famous California on a male in the midst of mating season. ranch? Although we frequently hear males referred 7. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What is the collective noun for a group of mosquitoes? to as toms, they are also known as gobblers, 8. ANATOMY: What is the correct medical name because of the distinctive noise they make to of the shoulder blade? announce their presence to females. A baby 9. FAMOUS QUOTATIONS: What 20th-century turkey is known as a poult or a chick, and of doctor and theologian once said, “Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad course, the female is called a hen. memory”? • Speaking of gobbling, in addition to the familiar 10. MUSIC: How many keys are on most gobble, a male turkey can make more than standard pianos? (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc. 30 different vocal sounds, including purrs, yelps, and kee-kees, distinctive and unique enough to be recognized by his fellow males. A gobble can be heard a mile away. Female turkeys aren’t nearly so vocal, usually making a clicking noise. • There are obvious differences in the outward appearances between males and females, with the male having a featherless bright red head and a body of red, bronze, and gold feathers. Residential & ManufactuRed Housing The female’s head is grayish-blue and her ReplaceMent Heating & cooling plumage is mostly a drab brown with a few VoluMe Buying poweR Means loweR pRices! feathers on the neck and head for camouflage. The adult male also has a beard, a cluster of 1391 Safford School Rd.,Gallipolis, OH feathers on the center of its breast, feathers 740-446-9416 • 800-872-5967 than can be more than 7 inches (17.8 cm) f R ee e sti Mates on n e w e quipMent long.

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Turkeys have excellent hearing, able to determine sounds up to a mile away, but oddly enough, have no external ears. They hear through small holes in the head directly behind the eyes. The birds have periscopic vision, with eyes on the sides of the head, able to achieve a 360-degree ﬁeld of vision.

• The male turkey has sharp bony spikes on the back of its lower legs, used as a method of defense. You can determine a turkey’s age by measuring the length of these spurs. A oneyear-old can have spurs of 7/16” (1.1 cm), while two-year-olds’ spurs range from ½” to 15/16” (1.27 cm to 2.4 cm). The spurs on a ﬁve-year-old turkey are from 1.5” to 2.25” (3.8 cm to 5.7 cm) in length. • During mating season, the male turkey ﬂuffs out his feathers, fans out his tail feathers, and drags his wings when he walks. This little performance is called strutting. • When it’s time for the female hen to lay eggs, she’ll lay about 12 eggs at the rate of one per day in just under two weeks. Those eggs will incubate about 28 days before hatching. •

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• What’s in that little plastic bag found in your turkey’s empty body cavity when you bring it home from the store? That bag contains the giblets, which are the turkey’s edible internal parts, including the gizzard, heart, liver, and neck. The gizzard is part of the turkey’s stomach, containing tiny stones that help grind up food in the digestion process. Some cooks chop up the giblets to add to the gravy or stufﬁng, but in all probability, most giblets end up in the dog’s dish! • The meat of an older, larger male turkey is preferred over that of a younger bird, which is usually stringy and tougher. However, when it comes to female turkeys, the meat of a younger bird is better. • Benjamin Franklin favored the turkey as a symbol for America over the chosen bald eagle, saying, “I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; the turkey is in comparison a much more respectable bird…a true original native of America. Eagles have been found in all countries, but the turkey was peculiar to ours.”

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Q: Last winter was a doozy by any standard, and several of my border shrubs that had survived previous winters unprotected froze and died off. I replaced them, but I don’t want a repeat if we have another bad winter. What’s the best way to protect the new plants? -- Jane V., Worcester, Mass. A: Many shrub varieties are hardy, and can put up with a lot of weather. Some do very well under a coat of snow or ice (which actually can help insulate the plant during the coldest part of winter). But snow-less cold snaps or sudden weather changes can test even the toughest of these plants. Since these are new plants, you should take extra protective measures regardless of how mild or rough the winter is. Go ahead and place burlap covering (available at home and garden stores by the yard) over or around the shrubs, ideally before the first hard frost, but definitely ahead of any multi-day periods with temperatures below freezing. Drape or wrap the burlap around the shrubs, not too tightly -- enough to keep it from flapping loosely in the wind, but not so tight that it constricts the plant. Secure the wrap at the base of the plant with twine, again being careful not to damage the bark. For larger outdoor plants with extended branches, carefully tie up the branches by loosely wrapping twine around the bottommost branches, then sliding the twine circle upward a few inches to gather in the plant. Repeat with another length of twine to secure the branches higher up, and repeat again higher up if necessary. Then wrap burlap around the plant and secure. If you’re worried about a plant being pushed over by wind or banks of snow, place wooden stakes around the plant and wrap burlap around the stakes and plant to secure them. During the winter, immediately clear snow banks from around the plant so the weight doesn’t push the plant over. Protect the roots of new and old shrubs during the winter, by placing fresh mulch around their base as an insulator. First, rake back existing mulch to expose the base of the tree or shrub trunk to the air for a few days. Next, cover the exposed area with new mulch. Straw, pine needles or wood chips, or a combination of these, work well as winter mulch, insulating without compacting, so that water can get to the roots. This cover needs to be removed in the spring. HOME TIP: Mulch around tree and shrub bases should be kept just 2 or 3 inches deep, to insulate while allowing air and water to get to the roots. Send your questions or home tips to ask@ thisisahammer.com. (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.

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To cut patient wait times, Department of Veterans Affairs chief Robert A. McDonald is touring the country to recruit doctors, dentists and nurses for the VA health-care system. He’s looking for 30,000 more medical personnel. So far, the VA secretary has made his pitch at Johns Hopkins, University of Vermont and UC Davis. On the schedule are Harvard, Howard and Tufts. Top drawer, all of them. To show he means business, at one recruiting location, McDonald even handed out his personal cellphone number and email address. There are beneﬁts to hiring on as a doctor with the VA. • The ﬁrst is the eye-catching sum of $120,000 that will go toward paying student-loan debt, double the amount it used to be. The VA earmarked $5 billion for just this purpose. • New doctors and other medical staff will know they’re practicing cutting-edge medicine. • In September, it raised the starting pay rates for doctors dentists just coming in to the VA by an additional $20,000 to $35,000. That’s a necessary step: Most private sector doctors make more than those working for the VA. • Students can do clinical rotations and get a foot in the door that way. Former combat medics and corpsmen can hire on as clinicians. They’ll add 1,500 residencies across the VA system. Meanwhile, the VA isn’t waiting on hiring. In Maryland, a dozen physicians have been hired and a contract with outside health care will hopefully allow patients to be seen within a week for primary care. White River Junction, Vermont, has brought on more than 50 people and needs more for their new programs. So, opportunities are there for graduating medical staff, and ideally better, faster health care is coming to veterans across the country. Freddy Groves regrets that he cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into his column whenever possible. Send email to columnreply2@gmail.com. (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.

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