The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-11-29
TURKEYS COME SLOW,
PRICE WAY N THE AIR

From Thursdays Daily.
Thanksgiving turkeys refuse to
| take on fat in this warm weather
and the people who eat. turkey will
have to content themselves with less
fat and more lean than usual. The
price on turkeys is about the same
as last year, the produce men are
| paying from twelve to fourteen cents
live weight and the butchers are
paying fourteen cents. The meat
markets will sell at twenty-five or
ltwenty-three cents dressed for
Thanksgiving.
The farmers are evidently holding
their turkeys back for the Christ
mas trade, for they are coming very
slowly. There are plenty Of turkeys
throughout. the coGntry, however.
The reason given for: their lack of
fat is the warm weather. If there
was snow on the ground they would
not run around so much.
Ducks are scarce this year and
are selling at one and two cents
higher than last year. Geese are
one cent higher than last year and
are plentiful. There is more demand
than usual for geese also. ~
Chickens are two cents !, higher
{ than last year at this time, the pro-
duce men now paying nine cents for
them. @At $50 H*r
The advisory board of the Man
kato Commercial club held meet
ing yesterday afternoon to consider
a proposition made by Professor c..
T p. Bull of st. Anthony Park, secre-
tary of the Minnesota Field Crop
Breeders association and also of the
Professor Bull requested that Man.
kato put up $1,000 in cash and pre-
miums, equip one or two halls, Sc
cure the necessary news paper pub
licity, and arrange for hotel accom-
modations at reasonable prices, for
a large meeting of these associations
to be held here in the spring. The
board thought that these. demands
were rather exorbitant and arranged
a counter proposition. They will Of
fer Professor Bull $500 in cash and
premiums, aside from $180 contri-
button from George Atchison, fur
nish and equip one hall for the oc.
casion and arrange for1the hotel ac-
commodations and publicity as speci-
fed. 1t is expected that the above
named associations will accept the
latter offer 49,.
f. F. Soaring is lin. receipt Of a
letter from Secretary andrews of the
Sacramento. Cal, Chamber of Com.
merce asking Mr.. Soaring to- invite
all the sportsmen in. Mankato to at
tend a grand goose stew. at Sacra-
mento on the evening of November
24. They have 100 wild geese killed
for the occasion besides other var
ieties of wild game The letter
states that California lis hunters
PARADISE especially in! the winter
time. Just now. the Wild geese and
ducks are fioekfhg down: the HPaci-
fic coast by the tens of thousands.
They come in clouds that cast a
shadow over the land, Farmers in
California are Very anxious to have
the birds killed as they destroy the
young crops. :. In some of the i'm.
mense. farms covering five or six
thousand acres, men are hired to
keep the geese away,
Milwaukee, November 21.--A sum.
mary of hunting accidents in the
northern woods to date shows that
the total of fatalities and serious &C
eidents since September / breaks all
recent records =, =
A tabulation of Wisconsin acct
dents to date shows that twelve
have been killed and ten, seriously
injured, while in: Michigan the ac-.
cidents have been more frequent In
one county there were four Killed
by mistake. for deer in three days
and there has hardly, been a day
since the opening Of the season
without fatal shooting. ..-....s
Milwaukee, November 21.-William
Galloway of Waterloo, Iowa, who
was here, last night, SAID ne intend
ed to present President-elect, Wilson
with cow. 81 .>ls "a IA
In doing SO he will follow the ex-,
ample of Senator Stephenson, who
made President Taft present of
Pauline Wayne. one Of his Wiscon-
sin herd. T -, !.
President-elect Wilson's COW will