Evening star., 1934-11-25

was discovered. It had become estab-
lished in continental Europe by 1880.
having been taken from Mexico and
Central America. Later different va
riety of the same bird was introduced
into England by the settlers of Virginia
and New England, where they were very
plentiful and so tame that they could
be captured or killed in large quantities
in the woods in the early Colonial period.
How it got its name nobody knows for
certain. 1t is said that some Europeans
thought the first birds made noise
that sounded like "turk, turk, turk"
which is mighty queer when everybody
knows that turkeys say "gobble, gobble,
gobble." The Virginia and New England
turkeys are the kind that spread their
tail feathers into sort of fan or wheel.
The native Mexican birds do not do
this. The turkey. although now raised
as barnyard fowl is still more than
half wild, and the hen will sneak off
and hide her eggs in the woods or bushes.
II given an opportunity. There are still
plenty OF wild turkeys to be had as game
birds in the wilder parts of Virginia and
adjoining States.
WHILE the chief articles of food for
our Thanksgiving day dinners come
from near home, that is not true of our
1ood the year round. A Washington
woman who had been to a corner grocery
store recently was emptying basket on
the kitchen table AS she was putting
some canned goods on the pantry shelf
she remarked to her husband: "It is
wonderful what fine meats we produce
right here in the United States and
how perfectly they are preserved"
LET me see one of those cans of
corned beef for a minute" asked the
man.
AS she talked on about the big cattle
ranches in our Great West-for she was
a reader of western" story magazines
her husband put on his reading spec
tacles and examined the label of the
can closely.
eve raise everything we need in this
country" the wife continued. except a
Look at this LABEL" interrupted her
husband
She looked, and there in small print
near the bottom were the words:
"Packed in Argentina" In larger letters
was the name of one of the best-known
American meat-packing companies.
Since our Western lands have been
settled and our frontiers are pushed
back until we have no more, there are
few places where great numbers of cattle
can range and find food and water. In
the Argentine Republic conditions are
Just right for raising beef in quantity.
This little kitchen incident serves to
call attention to the fact, well known
in the "trade," that nowadays, with our
modern systems of fast transportation
and refrigeration, food is raised where
conditions are most suitable for it, and
shipped to the worlds markets, wherever
they may be.
Most of our coffee now comes from Bra
I'll and we get some also from Colombia
and Venezuela. There are not so many
tricks of the trade as there used to be.
It was not so long ago that freighterS
loaded with coffee grown in Brazil came
to anchor in the Red Sea alongside of
the Arabian city of Mocha The coffee
was taken ashore and mixed with a
small quantity of the fine Arabian
coffee beans. Then the whole lot was
shipped to the United States or else
where as coffee from Mocha" and,
as Mocha coffee was supposed to be the
finest in the world, it brought big prices.
There was nothing untrue about the
statement, since the coffee had come
from Mocha. The only trouble was that
the seller forgot to mention the place