Show g Turkeys Turleys To Be Higher Thanksgiving t k ky eating calin will be somewhat more ca this year than thanin thanin in the past two y ars according to a 1 holiday prediction nade by the Sears Sears- Sears Roebuck Roebuck al Foundation The turkey crop is no not as large as it was last year car or the ear car before and a prediction o of 45 t i i 48 cents a pound for this years year's ears I turkey 1 i not considered The cool r this fall has been favorable turkey weather So long longa a tithe the days and the he nights are com cone comparatively comparatively warm turkeys s 's continue to roam the county countr country and fail to put on flesh When th thi temperature falls they are content to cease wandering off and settle d pvn cm n to grain feeding which rapidly a s pounds of turkey meat The crop j generally is further advanced than a this time in several years ears and reports from the country consistently tell of the high quality of the turkeys In Texas which is the big big- early state state for turkeys the crop is believed to exceed last year ear when many of the young were lost during during- the fiot of dry sun summer mer Okla Okla- Oklahoma Oklahoma homa Noma Missouri l Kansas fot Iowa and Ohio are expected to have fewer turkeys for the market this season while the toe other states report flocks of about about abou the same size last year Stocks of turkeys s 's in storage are less than half as large as at this time timea a year ear ago per pel cent below the year five five- year five car average Reserves of frozen turkeys therefore will be less of a market factor this season than last Holdings of chickens and fowls arc five million pounds larger thana than a year ago and ten pounds larger than the year five-year however off off- offsetting offsetting off offsetting setting to some degree the decline in turkeys |