Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-11-18
TURKEYS ARE
REPORTED SCARCE
And the Turkey Trust Sends
the Price Skyward for This
Thanksgiving Bird.
PRICES ON OTHER GOODS

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ner will cost "a cents a pound and 1t
is possible that they will touch an
even higher figure. This is the top
notch price for years past. Last year
when they were being retailed at Is
and 20 cents a pound, it was thought
that turkeys were being quoted up
from the top Of a s~kyscraper, but a
story or two has been added since
then. The year before that they
were TetaiIed at Is cents a pound.
The packing and commission houses
are already sending out letters to the
trade informing them of the light,
crop of turkeys" The weather has
bToods and in addition to this fewer
farmers are devoting their attention
to turkeys; they are too troublesome.
This is the story they tell.
Chickens (springl are not quoted
much below the price for turkeys
and they are retailing at 20 cents a
pound. Hens are bringing II cents.
Turkeys for New Mexico Thanks
giving dinners come from the south
western part of Kansas, where the
large packing companies have branch
houses for poultry alone. The best
grade of turkeys comes from Okla
homa. The season is tardy over there
and the turkey can become harder
and of larger size in time for Thanks
giving than his brother up in Kansas,
where the weather is not so favorable
and he does not advance so rapidly.
Its a funny thing about turkeys"
said a prominent retailer, yesterday,
but 1t Is simply impossible to sell a
turkey during the warm weather. It's
not like selling chickens. You can sell
them all the year round. There is d
constant, steady demand for them.
But the only time that the turkey Is
popular with the masses is around
Thanksgiving time. 1t Is the senti-
ment of the occasion which prompts
them and it is sentiment which rules
the stern realities of business in that
degree. It's the same way with cram
berries. In the beginning of the sea-
son they are sold cheaper than any
other time. The closer It gets to-
wards Thanksgiving the higher the
price goes. That Is the only fruit
that | know of where It is cheapest
in the beginning of the season"
Cranberries, from late advices. will
be just double the price asked last
year. Though the increase has not
been felt here yet, it will reach here
inside of a week.
The wholesaler is paying more for
groceries than he has for severa
years. Slight advances have been
made in a great number of the staple
and fancy groceries. in most Of these
the advances have been sufficient to
call for a raise on the retail purchas-
er but an additional raise, which u
not an uncertainty, will cause the re-
taller to dig down in his jeans.
Canned tomatoes are higher now
than they have been for 25 years
past. AT Baltimore, which is the
center of the tomato market for the
United States, they are being quoted
wholesale at $3.50 a dozen cans This
is a rise of from 65 to 20 cents. A
| short crop Is given as the explanation
for the boost in prices. Tomatoes are
still being quoted in Albuquerque at
two cans for 25 cents. but it is Simply
a matter of a few days until they
will feel the effect of the rise in the
east.
also gone up. Where they formerly
| oOlu dl 10 CtHlH u DOuuu THEY are
now tagged at 20 cents.
I'VE can't give any very good rea.
son for the RISE" said n prominent
grocer. The coffee market is sub.
jected to so much speculation. That.
more than any other on the produce
exchange, is made an object of specu.
latiOn on the part of the wholesale
dealers and importers. The high
grades of coffees are remaining firm
at the price which ruled last year."
Cereals of all kinds have stiffened
up. The two great controllers of the
breakfast food dishes, the American
Cereal company and the Great West
ern Cereal company, have reached an
agreement again and are not cutting
the price. This Is only one of the
many similar occurrences which have
taken place in the past. They fight
and then make up. 1t is the make VI
time now and the ordinary plug citi
zen has to open up his pocket book
a little wider.
California canned fruits are ex
pected to be higher. The quotations
are not given out, but ii is generally
understood that a material advance
will take place owing to the short
ness of the fruit crop throughout the
middle west and the east. Dried Cali
fornia fruits will advance about II
per cent over the present ruling price
Sugar is costing the grocer more to
day than it did last year at this time
1t is now quoted, for cane, at S5.S7
hundred pounds, and retails from 4
to Is pounds for 81.
Canned goods, the best comes from
Maine and New York, is somewha
cheaper, while peas are selling at tn,
same uniform price of last year.
Canned Holsters, and this is no joke
are away up and booming, ticketeC
for so cents a can at retail and Al a
wholesale. They used to sell for p
cents a can and there was a goo,
margin on them, too. People don
care for the canned kind, and | CUES
they are not catching many Holsters
either said a grocer by way of eX
PLANTATION.
Don't Be Deceived.
Do not be deceived by counterfeit
when you buy Witch Hazel Salve. Th
same Of Il. c. Dewitt & Co. is Of
every box of the genuine. Piles 4