Show UTAH TURKEY OUTPUT SHOWS GOOD INCREASE utah has 5 per cent more turkeys this year than the average for the commercial producing western states and within 5 per cent of the 1929 record production according to the annual turkey report of the united states department of agriculture released tuesday by frank andrews federal statistician the western states as a whole including texas have about 92 per cent as many gobblers is as a year ago utah lone alone a h has as 95 p per e r ce cent nt of her last years crop while idaho and nevada each have decreases of about 10 per cent in 1929 the utah poultry producers cooperative association agents for beehive state turkey growers shipped 80 carloads of fowls to other states the turkey crop of the united states for 1930 is 97 per cent of that produced the year before a large decrease being reported in the commercial supply states which extend from the dakotas to texas and westward p partially offset by an increase in the eastern areas in general the dry hot weather of the past season was exceptionally favorable for raising young turkeys making the proportion of turkeys raised to td boults hatched much larger this year |