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Show GROWERS SHIP PRIME TURKEYS TO EARLY MART TURKEYS MARKETED IN I NEW YORK CITY, BOSTON Two cars of dressed turkeys recently re-cently shipped to the New York market by LeGrande and Arza Adams reached the market in "fine condition", according to word received re-ceived here. The two carloads shipped from the Utah Poultry Producers dressing plant were loaded out at more than 40,000 pounds. The 4,000 turkeys averaged twelve pounds in weight. Meanwhile, 2 carloads of 5,000 turkeys tur-keys from the A. W. Pulley & Sons plant was processed last week, and ready to go the first of this week, making a total of nearly 10,000 young turkeys to go on the early market. One carload of the Pulley ship- ment will be marketed in New York City, and the other in Boston. The dressed birds weighed more than 63,-000 63,-000 pounds, averaging 16 pounds each for toms and 9 pounds each for hens. Most of the turkeys in the recent shipments were received from the hatcheries in January and have advanced rapidly with good weather conditions and careful feeding. Although early marketing is more or less of an experiment, good prices were received for the turkeys, it was reported here. The Adams shipment was processed process-ed at the Utah Poultry Producers' dressing plant, and was the first to leave the state this year. Another carload was to be run there this week. Although turkey ranching is somewhat some-what reduced this year, there is prospect of a good market. It is ' estimated that approximately 75,000 turkeys are being raised in the American Fork district. o |