The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-12-31
Special to The World.

frpeciai 10 inc Wprlu.
PoNCA CITY, Dec. s0---"A so
pound turkey is worth anywhere
from 50 to so at the pres
ent time. They arc hard to raise.
but tell me any one line on tho farm
where tho profit is so great" This
is the final word from Col, Joe {,
Miller of the 10i ranch. who has a
flock of 10 black and bronze turkeys
on hand at the present time lie es-
Inmates the flock worth at least soUO
strictly from a commercial stand
point, selling the birds outright now
FOR Christmas dinners.
And from every portion OF Okla
homa and the nearby states come
numerous additional reports or the
profits In turkeys during the past
season A total OF these reports.
could it be secured. would be one OF
the most valuable statistical RECORDS
that Oklahoma could produce,
"About the only turkey the people
OF this section are Interested In. Is
the barnyard variety" writes DICK
Quinn In n recent issue OF the Guy
mon Herald "rhcy may think or
the ocean some times, comment on
the Dardanellcs and look on the map
10 locate Constantinoplo, but they
don't give a darn about conditions in
too far fetched, As long ns local
gobhlers gobbie and bring around
thlrty-odd cents a pound, tho people
will NOT worry about sultan ana ms
multitude Of sultanas or tho pT!Eo0iy
poteutates across the sea,
And to show that quinn knows
what he Is writing about, comes c.
w. Allen, cashier Of the First Ma
tional bank OF Canadian, Texas.
(Which Is Just on the horderland OF
western Oklahoma) and vouches toI
the following account about one on
his customers q HemphlN county
farmer. The farmer purchased q
COW and calf. one day recently and
then came 30 town with three tuf'
KEYS which ne marketed, FROM iht
amount received for the turkeys ne
paid for the cow aud calf nnd had 40
cents left. Allen continues: 'luf-
keys are the premier money cror
this fall"
shipped Stt 900 In Turkeys.
I, would seem that turkeys can be
raised n any and ell portions OF
oklahoma the one main thing re
uuired being range. Turkeys musl
be unhampered In being able TO cover
a consider9 bic territory" says Col
Joe Miller. 1t was because OF the
range offered them that oklahoma
was really kllf lNTA stamping kA'NfAh
OF the wild turkey ana II 80 were
possible for the average farmer "a
have considerable field in which
the turkeys could range and feed
and at the same time they could bJ
prevented from wandering away
there would not be much difficulty
in raising them"
Down in the southern portion OF
the state II y. Orr. who is poultry
dealer at Autlers. shipped turkeys o.
the amount OF $1,000 durinp
Thanksgiving week, to the New forb
market, ana during the last D.
months he has shipped poultry OF al
kinds 20 the extent OF 100000. And
during the recent THANKSGIVING sea
son also, 6. ". Bennett & son Of We
tumka. which Is really in ceutra.
Oklahoma, shipped 900 turkeys tC
the Tulsa and Memphis markets
and during this Christmas season
they expect 10 send away double that
number.
Dealers Never Get Enough.
1t may be said, truthfully, tha
dealers Ia Oklahoma are never abb,
70 get enough turkeys to supply IN,
demand, Only few are grown oI
the farmr tas a rule, with here an,
there man who makes IL a profit
able sideline. The l0i ranch had
fiock OF 100 grown this year, IN
Thunderbird ranch had about hal
that numoers and On the Marlan
farm nere' the total was about fifty
but on the farms OF Kay county gen
srally ana the same Is true OF tn