Arizona republican., 1900-11-19
sTURKEY AND OTHER THINGS
What the Market Holds in Readiness
 For Thanksgiving Feast.

Phoenix will ahave plenty of turkeys for Thanksgiving day feasts, and ac- oJrding to dealers there will be an un- usually large supply of these fowls. The ranches in the Salt River valley furnish nearly all the turkeys which are used between Nogales and Ash Fork, while a considerable number are sent fali'h1r north and east. Turkeys are raised with less difficulty in Ari- zona than in more variable climates, but have never been considered very profitable by Arizona poultry fanciers
 In colder countries it is sOmetim d hard matter to pIJperly care for the young birds, but in this climate they do not require 50 much attention. The scarcity of grain is another drawback, turkeys requiring more cereal food than GO chickens, geese and ducks. The popularity of this national Thanksgiv- ing dish has grown steadily ever since the pilgrim fathers of Massachusetts bay colony captured a specimen of the bird. and incidentally discovered its excellence as an article of food. Today turk5y raising is one of the most prof itable departments of the American poultry trade. The dressed birds re- retail at IS cents per pound.
 Huge shipments of cranber1ies are being UnlCa1ed every day now. The berries seem to herald the approaching holidays as much as do the plump gob- blers. and the two are apparently as nearly iEseparable in the hands of the middleman as whan served fresh from ryIf srl-af china and silverware. Game birds will figure largely in Thanksgiving dinners, quail and duck being obtainable in plentiful quantities. In fruits there will be a big supply. The apples from California and Ore gon are very fine and the Arizona and California oranges are coming in. There will be the last end of the pear crop and a variety of grapes, while persammons, grape fruit and plums will not all be gone by the day of thanks and feasting. There are bananas from the Sandwich islands and from islands in the Gulf of Mexico. They retail at 40 cents per dozen.
 The California bean crop is a sue cess. Harvest has commenced and the indications point to a heavy yield The prune harvest is completed and we are infgrmed it also was a success. With prunes and beans in plenty fine winter presents mo terrors to the full boarding house. Speculdtors, however, are get ting in their work on the bean ant as a result it is stated that values are being inflated. A trust is getting con prOl of all the patches and is forcing upcn the market a trust bean, some thing that cv,n the most apprehensiVe never dreamed of. In pne phase in California there are 1,200 acres in beans. Think of the bOlrders of the nation eating 1,200 acres of beans and some idea of human torture in the az greSate may be attained. Italians raise thesc bears and pay S9 an acre rent for the land. A bean looking con siderably like a stick of macarOni is one of tine possibilities of evolution Som, growers report their beans as af- fected by dampness, causing the deli cate steel armor to rust, thus injul-inS their appearance in markeiJ. EXperi- ments are being made with a bean that has gelatine capsule covering that melts in warm water, giving it a sort of slippery elm sensation in the mouth Boarding house keepers are watching these experiments with interest. Man while let us rejcice that We have the old fashioned steel sheathed bean at any old price.