Leaflet No. 229. 6 
Turkeys should be sent to market in baskets or strong 
crates, laid breast downwards on clean straw and packed 
tightly to prevent them moving while in transit. Clean 
butter paper may with advantage be placed above and 
below each layer of birds to prevent the straw marking 
and rul:)bing them. The number and actual weight of the 
contents sliould be marked on the outside of each package, 
as well as the name of the sender, and a postcard should be 
sent to the buyer or salesman stating by what route and 
train the crate is being sent. 
At the London Markets turkeys fetch high prices 
according to size, appearance and straightness of breast bone, 
at and for a very short time after Christmas. As to days 
of the weeks at Smithfield (Central Market), Tuesdays, 
Thursdays and Fridays are best ; at Leadenhall, Mondays, 
Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. 
The following information regarding the periods of demand 
and weights required at various other markets was collected 
by the Board's Market Reporters some two years ago : — 
Market. 
Weights in 
most 
demand. 
Season. 
If fatted. 
Average prices. 
(1907.) 
lb. 
per lb. 
Liverpool 
12-16 
Christmas 
Ordinarily fed 
'Jd.-lOd. wholesale, 
llrf.-l.*. retail. 
Manchester ... 
Hens. 6-8 
Christmas 
No 
ld.-\Od. wholesale, 
Cocks, 10-16. 
9d.-\s. retail. 
Birmingham ... 
13-15 
Christmas, 
Ordinarily fed 
Sd. - lOd., or more 
at Christmas. 
English. 
at Christmas. 
Oct.-Feb., 
foreign. 
Glasgow 
12-15 
Oct.-May 
No 
Is.-U. 2d. 
Edinburgh . . . 
12-15 
Oct.-May 
No 
U.-U. 2d. 
Brighton 
10-16 
Oct.-Feb. 
Yes 
'3d.-ls. 
Chichester 
Hens, 10-12 
Christmas- 
Fatted, but not 
Hens, 10//. ; Cocks, 
Cocks. 16-18. 
Easter. 
crammed. 
U. 
Portsmouth ... 
7-18 
Oct.-BIarch 
Yes 
8d.-U. M. 
Dorchester 
18-22 
Christmas 
Yes 
6.^'.-18.^. (each). 
Plymouth 
16-20 
Christmas 
Well fed, not 
10/7. 
crammed. 
Bristol 
Hens, 8-12 
Xov. Feb. 
Well fatted 
Hens, M-9d. ; 
Cocks, 11-20. 
Cocks, ^d.-\Od. 
wholesale. 
Newport, iMou. 
12-13 
Oct.-March 
Unfatted 
l.f.-l*. 2d. 
generally. 
Hereford 
12-U 
Christmas 
Yes 
Ud.-\g. 2d. 
Wolverhampton 
12-14 
Dec. 
No 
12«.-14«. (each, 
(dressed). 
dressed). 
Shrewsbury ... 
12-15 
Nov.-March. 
Yes 
Hens, 8/Z. ; Cocks, 
M.-lQd. 
Chester 
10-14 
Dec.-Feb. 
Natural 
feeding. 
