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. (by John Curry) . Chum-es In any Ira resx dent who blush! In mimzm turkey for Christmas diJnrr this year buught one raised at the Mill brothers' farm nur Steurtuillo. For Christmas this:ear,just llke {hr the st 15, the Neill bmthcrs are llllnz, plucking and shipping over 2500|Ul1l05§ tn mun, Carleton Place. Alâ€" t'mnlc and any other loculplacc [mm which a special urfler might be placed. Our iufltcys are freshly kilIM, nut {mu-n, Francis Neill who is ".surt 0t manager" of the operation, salt] In an intenicw at the [arm last Thursdayaltt-r- noon. “That's hhy it is so busy mm." he explainu‘i. hit-n do the killing and pri- man plucki'z while mime-n, nilh occasimttl help {mm the mm, m the minute plucking nr “pinninfi”. The upt-ntlm starttd going (‘lRM huurs a thy ttr more on chmbcr fl and since that the brntht-rs hate but-n lum- int: nut nhtt‘ 225 plucked lur- lu-ys a day. It liltl'b' abut-t the minutes to mmpluc lht- klllinn anti pri- 1 mary plucking at a bird. lJnne in the first! if a writ-s ut thrt-c moms which rosumblc rallwny freight carsflheturluvy, \{lc-r rptmllng the night in the "starving tut-m", lshmgbythr ankles and then him through “11- ruck. The mrlu-rs thut"5tick"tho ‘ bird, which means Ihl-y strike lht- bird In the brain so that it dlt-a‘. UIH But it I: struck so that the fathers at? beaten“ by the birds runes. Panthers fly while the bird's past munem nervous reaction propels the wings as though lheturheynerc- alive and tni~g to fly. The men then pluck out the remninirg {anthers hhllt' stand. ing in an mcr deepening pile of feathers. One of the "pinnt-rs" in the â€" nut morn remark-ll that the thirty powder birds, “him the perform this ruler ritml. “shakc the bulldint'." Francis, Gerald and Milton Neill, Jim Calbt-rr}, l'rrcy ituntr, Doug Schccl. Allan Sin- iicld, llill Miller, Clifford Smith and Men McIntyre, among others, all hut‘k at this part of the uprralinn, Transient“ m |hc r'('\l worn when- slx nr smut “ennui sit' the Unity: are "pi‘ncd". This inufltcs pulling nut the small hhishcr-likc loatht-rslt-itunthc bird after the mm finish wlthit. The tmmm sit in .I lung nar- row morn amid matings put on the flour men morning to catch Ihc blood and small feathers which tulle-cl there. Tu pluck out the small imtherx, they use instruments they call "uran- berry hltllt‘rb", which rt- semblc miniature ice lungs. The only mmpla lntlhc- “omen hate is that their iingm tire (mm tun much pllxltini: and their behinds gm mrc lrnm too much sitting. it lalu‘s anywherr frnm lm in thirty minutes It) "pln" a tur- key. The lutteys then have bags tied me:- their heads and are takut tu tilt-nest hmm,thc5hip- ping mom, where they await their early "turning humvylt) market. Francis hell, said he knows [I no other lurk-y lawn in this immediate "a. lit: said his tufltqs am mostly hms, allhomrh the larg- cr ones are gobble-n. I ut my The turner, which are jut our sin maxim old. Br I ' um at (earl . my be "id- The lee-1 munsac' what mt palm which multimll“ prottih, he uphill-IL The birds, vltlch an- {mm W to 39 Dumas, are WU‘ and gnded at the mdvlnz palm, not a: the Kelli tam. unless an indle bu bottht one or Inn birds from the lumber: directly. â€"â€"â€"_‘ rn‘mtc hu hecovue a regular event at the Christmas sum tor. lrom ldt to right, Mrs. Lester .\cillI . rs, Jnhr: Settuhrink, and dnln it (or many yen-s. M11. urinal-elm. lite. by huh-I fl