Evening star., 1937-12-23
TURKEY RAISING
STATUS CHANGING
Nears Year-Around Status.
Apple Gains Favor in
U. S. Wine Output.
By ]. G. DONLEY.
ept cial Dispatch to The Star.

SPECIAL Dispatch to The Star
NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-Because
meats, particularly beef, are q little
less expensive than they were some
weeks ago, a great many families feel
ing the strain Of filling Christmas
stockings will give turkey the go-by,
come Saturday. But the food folks tell
US that the turkey Is getting to be q
year-around bird.
Even So the turkey crop, on a per
capita basis, has not yet succeeded
in getting back to the proportions of
the gay COS. In 1890 growers raised
one turkey for every five persons.
Then came the "blackhead disease"
boll-weevil Of the turkey nocks, and
turkeys became a luxury only to be
encompassed by holiday purses.
But with commercial Matching of
turkey poults - not chicks" - and
with the old dread disease under con-
troll we got up to a per capita ratio
OF one turkey to every six citizens
last year, the largest crop since the
90s. In Spain, incidentally, the
Christmas turkey is served with kick.
Shortly before the slaughter the birds
are forcibly fed wine The turkeys
may 60 momentarily loco" but they
are said to be more palatable.
Apple Wine in Favor.
Here in America. where wine Is
growing steadily in consumption
thanks largely 70 the national market"
ideas and promotions of Pacific Coast
winners, the superabundant apple is
at last contributing its bit to the flow
OF higher-bracket beverages. Out in
Oregon approximately 250,000 gallons
OF apple wine will be produced this
year, with initial distribution limited
to the coastal area but with national
distribution envisioned for the future.
Apple wine is light golden color and
has what 1t takes.
Speaking of meat for Christmas, on
the basis of q small roast costing less
than a well-fed turkey, some one
recently has figured out that auto
mobiles are cheaper than meat, on q
per pound basis A ton-and-a-half
automobile sells for 5000, or an av-
erage of 80 cents per pound. Ford
takes a decrepit car and under tons
of pressure turns it into a capsule
to feed the steel furnaces.
We haven't got capsule foods yet
and the food scientists say that We
never will have them in the popularity
conceived form of = few vest-pocket
tablets to carry us through the day.
The reason is that, compressed and
condensed to its utmost, the makings
Of a real sustaining meal would still
be sizable cube
But We do have numbers of food
products which economic on pack
aging space-such as powdered and
condensed milk, condensed and des-
icated soups, dried fruits and vege-
tables, etc. One of the latest con-
centrated food products is clam broth
in the form Of small, dry WATERS
the size of a penny, so efficiently con-
centrated that one wafer will, in due
time, turn a bowl Of piping hot water
into steaming broth.
Sweet Potatoes Dehydrated.
And we are dehydrating sweet DO
tatoes, including the skins. to grind
the resulting meal into flour. Ac-
cording to the Northwestern Miller,
the originator explains that the sweet
potato -four contains no gluten; that
cookies and baking powder biscuits
have been made successfully from
it, but that some blending with wheat
-four will be necessary for raised
breads and cakes. In England they
are preserving white, or Irish, DO
tatoes by completely drying and pow
dering them after they have been
peeled and steam-cDoked.
The notable news on wheat flour
consumption Is that the trend has
apparently turned upward, on a Der
capita basis, in this country, after
declining steadily for 30 years-from
230 pounds In 1902 to $50 pounds
in 1884, decline of 80 per cent.
The Millers' National Federation re-
ports 1866 -four consumption of l52
pounds. while the 1867 crop year
raised the ante to 153 pounds. Credit
goes to cooperative promotional ef-
forts through the Wheat Flour In
stitute.
One food product which no longer
needs promotDnal efforts is the
ubiquitous "hot dog" It is nearly
century since the first wiener came
over from Vienna to grace our break
fast tables. Now its cousin has be-
come big business"-375,0 ,0e0 stands
sold over 100000, 900 last year, and
another 500, 600, 900 were bought for
home serving.
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