People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1897 — Fifteen Cents For Wild Turkeys. [ARTICLE]

Fifteen Cents For Wild Turkeys.

Wild turkeys are unusually cheap. A hunter on the Walnut street ferry had three or fonr of the big birds that he was bringing to New Orleans to selL “What are they worth?” queried a passenger. “I sold some a few days ago at 15 pents apiece,” said the hunter, ‘‘and I am trying the market now to see if the turkeys will bring any better prices. Somehow folks don’t seem to like wild turkeys or venison. I brought some venison to town recently, and after being offered only 3 cents a pound for it at the market I at last managed to get 6 cents at a restaurant.”—New Orleans Times-Democrat.