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Show Om THING WE ARE NOT THANKFUL FOR j Some pessimistic cuss who claims to be an authority on the turkey question, ques-tion, is sending out propaganda circulars cir-culars claiming that there is a shortage short-age of the turkey crop this year and predicting a price of 45 to 48 cents a pound for our Thanksgiving birds. He goes on to talk about the weather wea-ther and what it has to do with turkeys. tur-keys. He follows the old bird clear down through Texas and chases him through . Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Mis-souri, Kansas, Iowa and Ohio and winds up the chase with the statement state-ment that the turkey stocks in storage stor-age are less than half as large as at this time a year ago and 40 percent below the past five-year average. Thus, he sets out reserves of frozen turkeys will be less of a market factor fac-tor this 'season than last There is, however, some consolation consola-tion in hs final summing up of "turkey "tur-key talk." He says that holdings of chickens and other fowls are five million mil-lion pounds larger than the live-year average. While this offsets to Some degree the decline in turkeys it does not change the fact that turkey for Thanksgiving, with many people, will be out of the question. Pass the sausage, please! |