Evening star., 1923-11-20
PORK AND Turkey
IN COMPETITION
Many Birds Will Be Driven Off
Thanksgiving Table by
Price Differences.
BY j. c. ROYLE.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. November 20.-Pork
is running turkey close race for the
place OF honor on the Thanksgiving
dinner table. according to reports to-
day from live stock and provision men
and packers. The latter already are
receiving orders for pork loins and
other pork products far heavier in
volume than is usual at this season.
The question of price is responsible
Tor this tendency. according to deal
ers. Hogs are at the lowest price
level in eight years. Loirs can now
be bought for 90 cents a pound and
lower and farmers declare the head of
the family can provide suckling pig
for Thanksgiving at considerably less
cost than turkey, despite the fact that
the birds are plentiful this year and are
selling in some sections at 10 to IL
> cents a pound less than in 1922.
Hog Market Overstocked.
The present low hog prices, ac-
cordine to executives of Armour &
co. and other large packers, are due
10 the tremendous number of hogs
thrown on the market so far this
year. Receipts at live stock centers
have been 80 per cent heavier than
in 1922. Last year. with corn low,
hundreds of thousands more hogs
We're raised. This year. with corn
prices high. farmers declare they
cannot afford to feed these animals
and they have been throwing them
on the market.
Farm organization leaders in the
northwest today made another ear
nest appeal to farmers to stop rush
ing their porkers to market. They
asserted that hundreds of thousands
as result of this selling of imma-
ture hogs Low prices cannot con-
tfnue, they argued.
Farmers Paying Up Debts.
Improvement in the liquidation of
rural Indebtedness in the northwest
is attributed by St. Paul and Mime
epolis bankers partly TO the quick
returns from the expanded live stock
sales in that territory and to in
creased sales of grain. Twin Cities
banks are handling S1,500.000 in grain
drafts daily and the total of these
payments to farmers in the last four
months is around 800. 100000.
:, Active steps are now being taken
by California sheep men for coop
erative marketing of their mutton
and of the spring lamb crop, so as to
stabilize prices for their animals as
well as for their wool The market
for. the latter product is improving
daily, according to Frank J. Hagen
barth of Salt Lake City. president of
the National Association of Wool
Growers. For the first time in two
years the market has assumed a
strong position" he said Wool Is
strong abroad, but here at home it is
shilling 90 per cent below foreign
prices. The lack of demand has been
due to the fact that many cloth manu-
facturers bought up big supplies of
raw wool when the market was low
but recently their reqirements have
sent buyers back into the market"
European Travel Prospects.
A tremendous volume of American
tourist traffic is counted on by Euro
pean business men in 1924, according
Ito foreign hotel msn now here to get
a line on needs and tastes of Ameri-
can visitors. The high cost of trans
atlantic transportation, they assert,
has increased the amount OF money
expended by tourists. as they are in
clined to extend their trips. feeling
that they cannot get their moneys
worth" out of flying visits.
THE hotel business in Italy is par
ticularly good and we are looking
for a big winter with many Amer
leans there" said Franz Nestelweck,
proprietor of a hotel in Rome. The
hotel association of our country Is
trying to arrange with the govern
Inent to do away with many petty
annoyances and to obviate extra
charges.
Business, generally speaking, is
fourishing in Italy. The post and
fhe railways are better and people
seem to feel more certain of the fu-
ture. There is a general atmosphere
of peace and quiet.
New Hotels Going Up.
Building is little dull at pres
ent, due to high costs of labor, but
the government is extending tax ex-
emption for % years to those build
, ing homes or hotels. Most of the
kluilding now going on is along the
Mediterranean shore and consists
largely of villas and resort hotels
THE summer months are our dull
eason now. Before the war we had
nany parties of college men and
women but this business seems to
rave fallen off, The winter and
pring season, however, has been pro-
onged."