The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-11-21
years and recently was transferred to
Oakland.
TURKEYS
COMING FROM TEXAS
One Hundred and Twenty Carloads Of
Them Are on the Way to
Thanksgiving Tables.

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UNITED Press Leased Wire Service]
DALLAS, Texas. Nov. 2O.-Four
hundred and forty thousand Thanks
giving dinners are leaving Texas for
the east.
Ben Albion, local commission man,
and member Of the Texas Poultry,
Egg and Butter association, said to-
night that by the first OF next week,
12O carloads OF turkeys will have been
shipped from Texas to the Chicago,
Philadelphia, New York and Boston
markets. Each carload will average
1000 birds, and each bird will aver.
age ten pounds.
Texas farmers and commission
men have a lot to be thankful Tor
this year While the Texas turkey
crop is about twenty per cent larger
than last year, the crops In missouri
Kentucky and Tennessee-other tur-
key centers-are said to be- from III
ty to sixty per cent smaller, because
Of the heavy. rains during the hatch-
Ing season. Besides, Texas farmers
are receiving from 10 to 1871 cents q
pound for their birds, an increase OF
one cent over last year.
thankful. In Chicago. they are get
ting from % to % cents a pound tor
the birds, and in New York from ~ to
"a cents, which is from two to three
cents more than the 1914 prices. IN
addition to the big shipments, texas
will consume about twenty carloads OF
turkeys itself.
The famous turkey trot" at Cuero,
kI,Dy ~ la nf
were driven through the streets an
nuaIlv to be slaughtered, will be aban-
doned this year, it is understood, De-
Gauss NJ the loss to the farmers.
Pick Small One.
CHICAGO Nov. 20-If you have
| two invitations for Thanksgiving din
ner. choose the smaller family where
they'll be more likely to have small
turkey. There's a reason.
| Then, when you are asked what
part you'll have, don't choose a drum
stick or the wish-bone. IAN upper
io,nt or a section Of neck will be
the right answer. There's reason
for that, too.
Here are both reasons:
"The early rains and variable wealth.
err. with unreasonable sultriness pre-
dominating, either killed on most OF
this years crop of young turkeys or
caused them to run" said p. F.. Com
bithz' big Chicago commission mer
chant today. "Why turkey VIII run
in warm weather that Is unseason'
able, no one knows. but run he Ices.
He thereby loses flesh, gets tough and
won't eat"
Combithz said the entire supply that
has passed through Chicago is com
prised of turkeys smaller than the
average. It's smaller supply. too,
than last year. Young gobolers last
wear averaged sixteen pounds. This
year they average eight. Receipts up
to tonight were only two thirds OF
what they were year ago today. All
of which, according to Combithz. VIII
;; make Mrs. Housewife pay around
81 80 for a turkey that last year could
have been bought for $3.50.
John B. Enders, another commits
sion merchant. added the tip that
| running toughens the lower part OF
the leg and the breast first. He said
that despite grocers' warnings to pur
chasers, that all the big birds are
tough and old, they refuse invariably
to break the custom OF sporting one
big turkey. by buying two or more
smaller ones. Enders said 1t wouldn't
surprise him to see turkeys go to
thirty cents pound all over the coun
try by Tuesday.
Another Turkey story.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.-The sec
Rotary Of agriculture today set forth
the gleeful or gloomy fact reading
sdepending on whether you are con
sumner OF producer" that turkeys are
selling for only 1871 cents per pound
on the farm. Last years average
price was AL cents.
| Averages don't mean anything, how
ever. to Rhode Island turkey raisers
They still get 25 cents per pound
showing the value of advertising
For years the white house bird came
! from Rhode Island.
Next Thursday It should be told
when President Wilson poises his
carving knife above the platter and
asks Mrs. Gait whether it will be dark
or light for hers, it will not be a Rhode
Island bird that he honors. 1t will be
one from the Blue Grass farm Of
South Trimble, clerk of the house.
/ This wasn't part of the agriculture
department announcement which went
! ON to say that the national crop Of