Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-27
PLENTY OF POULTRY
IN MARKET TODAY
Prices Ruled High This Morning,
With an Indication of
Drop.
Food scarce in this locality ., no.

Food scarce in this locality q, no.
! TURKEYS and chickens hy the hundred.
The marketccrs wcrc not talking about
scarcity of ANYTHING this morning. there
WaS too much evidence of plenty, II VAS
only too apparent that things had been
saved up. hoping for record high prices
TODAY 4 housewife heard Il marketecr
! say last week, that turkeys would be
- cents a pound for Thanksgiving
To-day they we're almost begging pur-
chaSerS 10 take them at 55 and 80 cents.
and in some instances they were tcing
sold for 81 cents THIS is little higher than
the prevailing prices last year. lut house
wives were not buying this morning
they were holding off, and IT was predicted
that either the turkeys would hc taken
home unsold or the price per pound
/ would lee down to - and 20 cents
W II klair Yesterday sold 80 Mary
land and Pcnney lvania turkeys nj his
place on Eighth street west OF Tatnall
nj 30 cents pound Dealers tried To get
them. but he held them all for huusc-
wives lie sad TODAY that he expects
to scll l,0oO there for Christmas and that
all will tc held for housewives
What was true Of turkeys beng plenti-
ful in the market to-day was also true OF
chickens, ducks and geese lherr must
have been a vrritablc Thanksgit ing
uassacrc Of fowl in The country round
about Yesterday, and squa 5 must have
risen Ia the heavens atuvc Even pIgs
squcricd, for there were lIttlc piggies all
ready for the trlsSInR and the apple IN
the mouth, skins ready 10 hc converted
INTO the delicious cracking, that. long age
caused the burning of thucse houses
according to our good friend, Charles
Lamb
Hou~cw ives are "on about the holding
~ far lower prices, fnr the government
having taken over the cold storage places
II IS NOT 81 easy 10 take things uf' the
sails and pot thorn on zee till another
market daN They must ic sold or they
spoil Hence the rNpnctant air abnuf
today's market that poultry would fr
down IN pTtcc thus afternoon htcken7
were lower than usual Il was pcsslhlc
10 rct fair slzcd ono for 81 50. ami
ducks aud gcr&c were about the same
rrlccs ii vegetables wcrc about tie
same that they have been, ca'fli'ovcr,
~ and .,5 cents per head CELERY 10 and
r. cents Tor a large sia'k Butter was
from 70 10 s. cents prr pound and egg
wcrc 20 cents 4 dozen Thc same prices
prevailed III 10th Madison aad kug
unWIlInEncSs on the mart uf hc hou~c-
vifc IL hc held up. Just because It's
THANKSGIVING It's our frs Victory
Thanksgiving, and some Of the Victory
~piru went INTO the purchaser for she
seemed to want some If the lTmts Of
victory herself
II Phlaldelphm tho Federal Food Poard
served notice 81 retailers yesterday that
thtN we're not IL charge more han fair
profit un Thank TivinC turkeys. no matter
how short III, supph The government
has taken over quantities OF turlcN> noW
arriving for the men in service There are
few cold storage birds IN the market. anu
II any such arc sold a. fresh Killed CON-
plant may { made Ia the board there
The Trade DIVISION q tie Federal
Food BOARD has compiled thus table show
ing changes IN The cost u commodities
that 60 to maze up ] THANKSGIVING dinner