The evening world. Newspaper, November 7, 1919, Page 16

COSTLY TURKEYS FOR THANKSGNING NOW PREDICTED New York Dealers Say They Must Overbid West- ern Merchants. | Dy P. Q. Foy {Special Food Expert of The Eve- ning World.) With the President's proclamation | bt @etting aside the last Thursday in im November as Thanksgiving Day, all | \ minds are fixed on the good things { to eat that will appear on the festive q | board for that happy occasion. + The war, for the past two or three } years, has robbed Thanksgiving Day H 4 Of its full import to millions of Amer- & feans, but its successful ending and the rapid return to normal conditions Will give the coming holiday @ full ewing. One thing is certain: There will be @n ample supply of fine holiday tur- keys, as the advices from all turkey- Producing sections indicate that the arly hatehed birds are fully up to the average in weight and plumpness. The abundance of corn and other §rains insures us’ better and plumper turkeys than we bad for many years past. The young turkeys coming to ? market for the past month indicate Wnusual growth and development, Presaging fine holiday quality. The Thanksgiving holiday is unique smasmuch as the turkeys are used almost exclusively by individual fam- flies, who demand a fancy, plump, Bandgome bird, without much regard te price, while thin, scrawny birds are not wanted by the family trade at any price, and these generally go to the ordinary priced restaurants, ‘Maryland dry-picked turkeys rank im appearance, being better ma- fured than birds from other sections, &s the wheat fields in the late summer afford ideal provender for the making an i day bird, ‘The Mary- sys are taken by the high nue butchers and price cuts > Aigure with them, Next in point ‘of quality come the turkeys from the Central West, each section claiming @uperiority in the producing of fancy turkeys. Texas for years has figured Bele in the Bastern markets on the nksgiving, but this year the large and wheat crop will enable the to finish their turkeys, and ality is said to be better than past twenty years. ‘The wholesale poultry receivers on ‘aphington Street and in West fashington Market are of the opin- fon that prices this year will be the est ever known. Another large ibuter, when asked to reconcile the fact that turkeys would be plen- fiful but high in price, remarked: “New York merchants have to compete with every city in the United States their supply of Thanksgiving At present the dealers on “4 tic Coast are paying 450. a i : und on track in Kansas, and other Fire cities in the Middle West and [Northwest are paying higher prices, 9) @ you see the New York merchant | must bid more than his competitors ' to get his supply of turkeys for the | goming holiday.” | .The consensus of opinion among the leading receivers points to a whole- gale price of 50c. a pound on No. 1 turkeys from the Central-West, while incy dry-picked Ohio and Northern fi jana turkeys will command 4 pre- | mium over this grade. Texas turkeys i! cost 43 to 45c. laid down on the i York market, but if the strictly 1 grade be sorted out, the mer- nts eay that the Texas turkeys / Will bring nearly the same prices as ) BVerase best Western, The farmers D9) im Moryland are now asking 60c. a ©} pound for their turkeys dressed and livered at the local express or ight depot, which brings the cost down in'this market close up to . but where all plump young birds desired the Maryland birds will ome still higher. The probable retail price on No. 1 Western Turkeys will be from 66 to $8 cents, while fancy Maryland dry icked turkeys will not cost less than to 70 cents per pound to the house- Wife, while 52 to 64 cents a pound on the grade of turkeys used by the av- @rage consumer jooked for as @ of the prices that ob- tained at the Thanksgiving holiday fm 1917 and 1918 brings us up against @onditions precipitated by the war, When prices were controlled by the Food Administrator. It will be re- Membered a large quantity of frozen turkeys were on hand in 1917, and the prices were fixed at 30 cents Wholesale and 35 cents per pound re- ¥. tall to consumers on Texas turkeys, : ‘while Northern frozen turkeys sold at 32 and 87 cents per pound re- spectively. ‘The following were the wholesale es on fresh turkeys that obtained | on the Mondays, Tuesdays and Wed- | Wesdays before the holiday in 1917 In 1917 1 Administrator that hen turkeys should weigh | m to eight pounds minimum and ten to eleven pounds, and the rules were in force last year with | tke additional ruling that dressed | turkeys would not be received for | pment to an Eastern market at a date than Nov, 1% Twenty Styles of Men’s and Women’s Signet Shoes A stock which assures the selection of just the style you want—in the leather you prefer. 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