The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-11-07
Texas Dealers
Talk Turkeys

The fall meeting of the Butter, Egg
& Poultry Assn, which was held in
the Oriental Hotel here last Saturday,
was one of the biggest and best ever
attended by the produce trade of
Texas Practically one hundred Re
preventative handlers and distribu
ters from all parts of the country
we're present. Many we're here from
the Nationol Assn convention in Chi
cago the week previous. AS Texas
Is the big turkey and egg producing
state, 1t was largely for the purpose
of finding out the actual conditions
that many attended the meeting
The keynote of the convention was
that shippers must prepare for lower
prices on poultry and dairy products.
II was predicted at variousN times
that the prices of turkeys will drop
and be much lower than they were
last year One of the causes for. this
will be the large quantityof turkeys
and poultry which will be dumped on
the American market by foreign coun-
tries
One of the principal addresses was
made by II. A. Emresno, of New
York He told of the lowering prices
and advised members to buy turkeys
in the face of falling market, with
the knowledge that they must sell to
consumers during the holidays at
prices which will be lower than at
any time since 1912 Mr. Emerson
said there are in New York and Chi
cago over 100000 lbs of last years
crop of turkeys in storage.
Statesmen from foreign countries
are in the big eastern markets, try
ing to sell the turkeys There is a
great surplus which positively means
lower prices. Last year turkeys were
bought at 81 1-2c, Mr.. Emerson said.
was positively too high.
BE sure you have market before
you buy" Mr.. Emerson said in his
speech. "Many failures have been
seen in the poultry trade during the
last year. due to continued, falling
prices When prices finally strike
the pre-war level, anyone from the
producer to the consumer will be bet
ter on
F. A. Kadane. president of the as
sociation, predicted that Texas would
ship 600@750 carloads of turkeys be-
tween now and Christmas. He also
spoke of the increasing competition
of foreign turkeys. but said that he
knew that the Texas stock was of
the highest grade and that shippers
must make up their minds to take
prices that the trade can afford to
pay.
David Stahl. of Stahl Bros. Con
zales. who are among the largest
poultry and egg shippers in the state,
said that his men have been driving
over the six weeks. investigating crop
conditions. Their estimate was that
the crop would be rs per cent larger
than last year. which means that at
least 700 carloads will be shipped.
w. v. Clover. dairy agent of the
A. r. T. Co.. told of the new refrig-
orator car which has just been turn
ed out by his company. He said it
will prove of great value to Texas
shippers in getting their shipments
TO distant points. One of these new
cars, which had been sent to Dallas,
was inspected by many of the dealers.
In summarizing the findings of the
conference j. o. Boettcher. of Wei
mar. past president of the body. de-
clared that conditions looked reason
ably good to dealers In Texas, and
that shipments would begin in the
near future. He urged that the ma
jority OF this years output should be
shipped east before the beginning of
the Christmas holidays.
Despite the lower prices Texas
viii realize sS.00O.O00 or more from
this years crop OF turkeys" Ben Alb
Ion. of Dallas. declared. I'VE pro-
duce more turkeys than any state in
the union, and rival all ohter states
in the high quality OF shipments we
make to important eastern market
centers." s.
The session on Saturday morning
was followed by luncheon at the
Oriental hotel The meeting was ad
iourned early Saturday afternoon,