The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-11-28
TURKEY HIGH IN CAIRO
Price Per Pound Exceeds That
Charged Last Year---Cranberrie
Also Climb UP a Notch.

| The erstwhlle aristocratic turkey
will share hohors with the football
idol Thursday, Thanksgiving day. Not
only in Cairo but throughout the
length and breadth of the United
States VIII the Thanksgiving fowl be
in demand
The approach of Thanksgiving turns
the mind of the far-seeing housewife
to this bird and few weeks before
that day every commission merchant,
Wholesale and retail grocer, prepares
for heavy business in turkeys.
In the interval of Thanksgiving day
and the Christmas holidays many tur-
keys are consumed in Cairo and the
commission merchants say there will
be steady market for turkeys for two
months after Thanksgiving Last year
many farmers held their flocks until
after Thanksgiving and sold them at
almost their own price at Christmas.
The industrious farm wives prepare
to raise turkeys with the approach of
spring They need little care. When
the time arrives to market them they
are driven up out Of the fields, put in
coops and hauled away to be sold Al
most every farmwife is the possessor
OF flock of turkeys. Some raise only
a dozen and others hundreds
The fowls that are shipped to east
ern markets are dressed and packed
in refrigerator cars. The local demand
calls for the live turkey as most peo-
pie now wish to dress their own fowls
The turkey hen is always the greatest
in demand and the gobblers are
usually the last to be sold.
City housewives hear many reports
of the turkey market being short go
to market early and engage their
Thanksgiving turkeys, possessed with
fear perhaps that they may be I'M
able to secure the fowls at later date
owing to the great demand for tur.
KEYS Immediately before Thanksgiv-
ing. FwRE |TsEtTWW
The turkey has Jared well this year
and the commission men do not in
the least anticipate a turkey famine
Al the various grocery stores and
markets the turkey can be purchased
at a price slightly higher than that
paid last year.
II is estimated by commission men
that there will he LOO turkeys needed
TO s,ipplyCuiro's Thanksgiving day
dinners. There are 1000 families in
Cairo and if 1,100 turkeys are used
there will be 1900 families who will
or beef and some who will not even
fare so we'll.
The hotels and restaurants have en-
gagged whole flocks of turkeys and will
cater to great crowds of hungry
on that day
Large shipments of turkeys have
been made to eastern markets dur
ng the past three weeks 1t should |
reach the New York market the day
before Thanksgiving.
These turkeys were raised princi.
)ally in Kentucky. Missouri. Illinois.
md northern Tennessee The turkey
'aisers of those parts have not sold
]ver half of their hoclls and will
lave the remainder TO sell during the
holidays. The turkeys that will be
consumed in Cairo on Thanksgiving
lay will come from these states.
Turkeys are marketed commencing
bout Nov. l and continuing until
fter the holidays. The majority of
he local retail grocers are Altering
ne dressed at 90 cents per pound.
After Thanksgiving day the turkey
i'll drop out of such a conspicuous
lace in the public eye and remain so
ntil the advent Of the Thanksgiving
eason next year
The cranberry takes an important
art in the complete Thanksg giving din
er and is. with the exception of the
lrkey the fayorite of the bill of fare.
his seasons crop of crapberries has
zen short and Cairo people will be
reed TO pay greatly increased price
II this delic Gus luxury
Last year there was good crop of
and they sold at 10 cents
quart which has been the usual price
r the past five years Local dealers
we a liberal supply on hand aud the
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