Show i POULTRY PRODUCERS COMBINE corbine THIEVES iii sf f the standing reward of 0 offer operative association 1 bof ar the dippre hension of poultry rustlers rustler s met its first teg test this year recently fyhen a chck for the amount t mentioned wm was mailed to 0 N M mathews town mar rail trail t at providence utah Marg marshal hil mathews was instrumental in obtaining the arrest of alfred biss 1 eggar poultry thief who was of second degree burglary in the state gouk court at logan and sentenced to serve serve from oni one to twenty years in the state penitentiary the rw reward ard was paid promptly as soon soon as the official claim was made and substantiated executives of the poultry association declared the offet of still stands for anyone obtain ing the arrest anest and conviction of a person bori or stealing poultry on a commercial scale from the coops or prem I 1 isca of a member of the state society the reward measures taken by the poultry association are arc to f urage the apprehension of thieves making a business bubines s of stealing chickens ann ana turkeys s on an a large scale the record of ariesta and reported losses indicate that the pillage of poultry flocks has been increasing in recent years td ta a certain degree this illegal business is taking the place of cattle rustling in in frontier fion tier days since poultry is fairly easy to trans port portana por tand and hard to V identify it makes a relatively easy casy mark for thieves unless carefully guarded producers art ari urged to take every possible precaution to discourage sticky fingered persons from visiting the flocks at night coops should be properly locked and a close check should be kept of the poultry enabling an early carly discovery of losses |