The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-11-20

II AVE You engaged your Thanks
i 4 giving turkey YETI No? Well
probably il does not matter, FOR there
VIII be no turkey famine this wear
From early autumn an indications
pointed 20 large crop of the fowl
that for the time being becomes our
national bird. Moreover, your turkey
in this glorious year. 1910. is not
likely 10 cost YOU any more per pound
Than IL did a year ago and that is
something 20 bee thankful for IN this
dire day OF stationary incomes and
steadily advancing cost of living. How
ever. If you should get any concession
In the price of turkey this year il Will
not DE due Ia any turkey trust" sud
denly cOnscience-stricken, but 10 good
old Dame Nature herself.
For be il known. general weather
conditions throughout the spring,
summer ami autumn have a most i'm
portant bearing upon the turkey crop
az Thanksgiving and. consequently, in
directly of course, upon the price of
the birds. Weather conditions this
year have been, on the whole, very
satisfactory for turkey raising. This
turned out 10 be rather pleasant
surprise. too for in some parts of the
decidedly unprOmising. In those
numerous districts where a wet spring
was encountered great numbers of the
young turkeys suffered. being almost
literally drowned out"
However the autumn is even a vet
more crucial time in the turkey in
dustry. This year, with its exception
ally mild and open autumn, has been
most favorable for turkey production.
giving promise of a large crop and
more rational prices than have pre-
vailed in some years within the mem
OrS OF every turkeyeaIer now living.
OF course. there are some turkey pur-
VeyOrs who are never satisfied and
who are complaining because in some
of the leading turkey-raising sections
we have not had this year that COM
bination of an open autumn with cool,
crisp, bracing weather which inspires
the turkeys 10 roam i'm search of food
and causes them 10 fatten I'M prime
condition. But for all that. il is
doubtful If any city dweller viii be
asked more than % cents per pound
for turkey this Thanksgiving. and res
idents OF the smaller cities and towns
ought 10 get il proportionally less un-
less there is some unexpected develop
ment on the eve of the holiday.
Bnt whatever the price of turkeys
per pound, there is another problem
IA turkeydom that has been growing
more and more acute with each sue
ceeding year and is apt 10 be more
noticeable than ever this autumn.
This new turn of affairs is seen in the
growing scarcity of the small turkey.
The housewife who buys for a family
of two or three is finding il more
and more difficult each year to find
first-class tender turkeys that weigh
only six. seven or eight pounds II
really begins 10 look as though the
time was coming when small families.
not fortunate enough 10 be invited out
10 Thanksgiving dinner by friends,
would be forced 10 resort 10 hotel or
restaurant for the annual turkey feast
or else accept the alternative OF a
huge turkey that viii compel the fam
ily 10 eat turkey. cold or warmed over.
FOR days and days after the glamor OF
the holiday has passed.
There is no difficulty IN fixing the
responsibility for this disappearance
of the small turkey. II is due 10 the
growing tendency among turkey raisers
10 devote their efforts 10 the bronze"