Show f TURKEY 3 MAY BE tv ro EXPENSIVE m 1 Ran Ranchers Ranchel's chers Attempt l lI to Corral J I Thanksgiving Birds and Retailers Re Re- r tai lers Make Hard Fight PRICE CE MAY BE ADVANCED Dealers Stand Pat and to Permit Permit Per Per- mit Farmers to Dictate Price of Fowl i 4 ft Turkish hostilities have come home from rom Tripoli to Salt alt Lane lale and Just now ow an arbitration board consisting of t tho retail dealers on the ono one side md nd the tho farmers on the other arc are 1 pondering over the question as to whether heth r Thanksgiving turkeys tin keys arc He to 1 oat ost 35 30 cents a pound or be a a. cent heaper than last year when the they sold t 28 an and 30 0 O cen cents ts a a. pOll pound nd With the fowl In whose honor Thanksgiving was set aside now belling sell sell- ing ng nJ to those who vho can afford aCCord to rush he season at t 3 33 cents a n poun pound td the farmers and aud poultry niseI's arc making makIn a determined cI tand and to hold up tho the Thanksgiving fig fig- CI figure ure re to this price If U they ther are successful this will nill mean mean hat lilt the housewife who wants want to pull part a arks l wl wishbone on em InJo I nl ng da w 11 have to pay mor morn more for tor the theun theun theun un this year ea than ever b before in the i of oJ the mo modern retail markets etall dealers rs however have refused ell for tor their tup supply ly of Thanks Thanks- lying 1 ln turkeys nt Ht t the wholesale figure d b bj by the farmers determining determIning- toI to I old jold back bRCk th their lr purchases until the come down into a t lower pI price pileo f so the retail price of the oliday dish ma may be made at least 23 8 S a pound po possibly 27 i cents rl I Ift Monday I morning the thc trained strained rela rela-i I Ions lons b between the farmers and the re- re allers either will break ak allo altogether or ur lend end eu Yesterday virtually all an the Lle Im- Im m dealers denIers agreed not to contract contractor or or an any deliveries deliveries of oC turkeys turl turkeys es during his week a at more than 20 0 cents cents wholesale l u This tl figure ure would permit the retail retail- na ng n of or turkeys turlee's at 29 9 or 30 cents a aJ J pound allowing for the Inevitable Ine train from the farmers farmers' weights Q n the other hand the farmers indi- indi ted that they would not sell sen ture tureS ture'S tur- tur e eS e'S e wholesale for far less S than 25 and ant andS andIS IS S R cents the tho price the they got through- through ut the week As a a arule rule the farmers farmer Iso have declared that they would Vi lot ot come below 25 and S cents for fort fori i t he Thanksgiving deliveries deliveries' which l will be made this lIlis year ear from Xo November 5 until the day before beCore tho the holiday m a ll If the farmers maintain this A tion and thc they seem eem to have come to some orne general a agreement sa say the dealers deal deal- ers rs the prices of Thanksgiving turkeys tur- tur keys will be prohibitive e to families of oC operate means r t They Thc will range r n e. e according to det de- de and from 34 3 to tR cents a pound ut ast at this time Turkeys were cuing g at 31 n and 3 32 cents cent a pound and d when the thc holiday burin began aday a 4 day or two before before Thank Thanksgiving dayi day i the tIlt fowls ls sold gold atS at t 28 S 8 and 29 9 cents i Jr The principal dealers In tine the city l ul 7 declared yesterday however that the they would not contract for their turkeys nt at t any such fl figures as IlS those the farmers far Car fliers mers demanded They Thov had offered to toz z contract for their total supply at 18 cents which would permit a Il retail price of ot 27 cents The They will not ordera order oner I Y Il a supply at any higher figure they de de- de clare clarc Farmers Farmer r Up a n Tree It Is expected tho the market will ha have e eto to give Ithe a 1 way one wa way or the other jy y tho the middle of the week as the deal deal- rs will have ha to have their holiday trade secured and the farmers will have to get rJ rid of ot th their lr turkeys At Ata a number of or the retail markets and groceries roc ries yesterday yesterday- It was said that If It the tho farmers did succeed in holding holding- up their prices to such an extent that It would woul make malce iho tho Thanksgiving prices prohibits prohibitive there would woul be some consolation consolation consolation con con- In the fact that th the raisers would have c to almost almost- give I c their Turkeys Turkey's Turkeys Tur Tur- keys key's away nv awa ay for Christmas as then the dealers would be In a position to dictate dictate dictate dic dic- tate their own prices While hll the turkey turlee war Is on the market In cranberries and the other trimmings s of the Thanksgiving feast Is In the tho air air If turkeys turee's sta stay up where aviators 3 fa fall I from tram the prices of ot vegetables and even een chickens chicken and ducks clucks will be he much less than the they will willbe willbe be If It turkeys gobble around the lower portion of oC the price scale where wh the average e family family- can catch them Thanksgiving Thanks Thanks- Thanksgiving giving g da day |