Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-20

pound bird. Few poultrymen care to
raise very large turkeys these days. They
have found that there Is q good deal more
money in the four or five pound SQUAD
turkeys, which are used as broiIefs IN
high-class restaurants. as well as by prt-
vate families.
lat certain seasons these delicate broil-
ers bring from So to $3.50 apiece, or as
much as turkey twice the size would
fetch at the usual market price. Altnougn
explained all this to the lady / have
mentioned she departed, obstinately bent
ON securing her forty.po'ind TURKEY
as he is called in the wholesale district
around Louisiana avenue. was allowing
his gaze to wander over few thousand
turkeys chickens and small game piled
up on the door OF his warehouse. z iaoy
entered by a side door, picked her way
carefully among the small pools or water
and loaded crates and baskets ana put
this question to him:
How may an inexperienced buyer tell
the difference between roasting ana
boiling turkey"
Come this way and / will show YOU"
was the good-humored reply.
The expert led the way to an open
crate and picked up a turkey.
der young Philadelphia gobbler. which
Now feel Of the extreme lower end OF
his breastbone, and you will find 1t Sc
soft, SO pliable, that 1t can easily be bent
to one side or the other. The bone at
that point is, In fact. little more than
gristle.
Here. on the other hand. is an old fell
low-I don't know how old-but the END
Of his breastbone tells me he is good only
for boiling. Or. at least. he must be par
boiled before being roasted. and that: in
my opinion, destroys the flavor. Try
now, to bend the breastbone."
The lady thanked the expert. and de-
parted with an air of having thoroughly
assimilated a valuable lesson.
1t would appear that some persons In
this city will not trust the fattening OF
their Thanksgiving turkeys to the poul-
trymeE and farmers. but buy their birds
some time before the festal occasion and
treat them according to their own meth
DDS. The law not permitting them &c
keep their birds at large, they secret
them in cellars or otherwise, and feed
them according to their individual no
lions. An instance illustrative OF this
practice was brought to attention upor
one Thanksgiving occasion. guest had
partaken of a peculiarly fat turkey, upor
the merits Of which the host enlarged
with some enthusiasm. affirming that ht
had fattened 1t according to his owl
plan. The guest, waxing curious to as
certain the nature of this plan and o.
evidently gratifying result, at least t.
the host. made inquiries to that effect.
This house." chuckled the giver of thu
feast, was actually swarming with cock
reaches. My turkey fed on nothing els
for weeks, and lots of the reaches art
gone. you may be sure while my tur
key
But the guest had abruptly left TIT
table.
Turkey without cranberry sauce woul
be q solecism these days. Yet it is SAT
to say that. as one Center market deale
observed, people in general know practi
caIIy nothing Of the beautiful red berrie
that come to their attention at this sea
son and add SO much to the zest OF tn
Iordly fowl Although cranberries ar
grown to some extent In the marsh.
ground in the vicinity Of this city, tn
Cape Cod region affords the principe
supply. 'Summering in this section has
of late. grown so universal" said tn
merchant, that 1t might be expected tina
the sight Of cranberry boys, purple, an
pink, and green, with running vines o
the vaccinium macrocarpon. must hav
become familiar to a considerable portion
of the people Of the country. Those Ger
ta!nly who linger on until autumn-th
best time Of the year in the Pilgrims
country, as 1t is in most places along tn
Atlantic seaboard-must be struck witt
the spectacle of the cosmopolitan gang
of Observation-Disclosures, French Cana
dian, Films, Poles, Swedes, Italians, ant
an occasional native Yankee-eating thei
way across a meadow in the ever-ad
vancing line, and to the animated scene
at the screenhouse, when the reddenini
fruits are sorted into the different grade: