TURKEY

When you go back to work or school on Monday, act smart and mention the snood on your Thanksgiving Day turkey. That's the flap of red skin hanging from the top of its beak. Most people have heard of the wattle which hangs under the turkey's beak and neck but not so, the snood.

The ability of the turkey to fly is related mostly to its weight. Most wild turkeys can fly after they are two weeks old. Domestic turkey which we raise solely for food are too fat for their wings. I don't think I'll ever fly again, either.

A friend told me an interesting story the other day that is related to turkeys. One of the big attractions for early settlers coming to our country was the fact that they could hunt here. In most developed Central European countries at that time, only the aristocrats and land owners could hunt. Peasants were forbidden to hunt or, in some places, even bear arms. The Americas at that time were a hunter's paradise.