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Show POULTRY GIVES UTAHB1G SUM More Than Three Million Dollars Dol-lars Worth of Products Sold In 1926 1 Mali poulia-ymeii hli in "IJii pi oduri s valued at more than Iv!.-ji'iMUHH. Iv!.-ji'iMUHH. In :'S2 ihere were .sold Id ca i-loads of mi xed ois 1 the spring and to balance thai the slale imported es all winter. This dcveiMphient nt a three million mill-ion dollar industry is the example poini ed on I in t he st ate when it becomes necessa ry to convince farmers or any one else of the value of cooperal ion. Always there have been in Tlah Ihe fuiid.iinenlals for a reat poultry poul-try industry. The chief asset is a hi'h. dry. sunny climate. Tt is easy :o handle lare flocks of chickens, keep iliem free from maladies and keep them clean in 11 a h elbnn Ic. Wilder temporal nres are never severe se-vere enough to slop 01x1: production tin properly equipped dairy farms. Crops of Tlah are rich in minerals miner-als and there is an excess produe-:ion produe-:ion of irrigated wheat and oats which incidentally have greatly benefitted ben-efitted from expansion of the poultry poul-try industry. For these crops sold a t home have the freight ra te as an advantage while, exported, this is a disadvantage which about robs them of profit. The packing industry indus-try affords by-products for the pro-uin pro-uin side of ihe ration as does the dairy industry, and in northern Tlah there is from TTah lake an abundant supply of cheap ca rp which add to the value of chicken rations. - However, no cooperation no poultry industry. No one can offer with success a ear load of 0S on the New Tork market or the Chicago market. It is necessary to offer a carload of graded ei;s, weighing so much peri case, all of the same color and all ! candled. To fill a car with ei:s;s to! be placed on the bijj markets, the! IT ah Poultry Producers. Inc.. a producers cooperative company, was! organized in under auspices of ihe TTah State Farm bureau. The result has been a $3,000,000 indus-' try in three years and st ill grow-iiii. grow-iiii. , Presides the poultry part of 'ham an'" needed to supply for breakfasts break-fasts for half million people of the s:ate, three ears of e.irs are shipped ship-ped to market on the average for every two days. The poultry association maintains a sat boring ronV on lending t be length of the slate, sereral assemh lins; plants where e.s are candled and a selling office in Newv York whLk tt he orsaidy-ation ts represented repre-sented also in Chicago and on the Pacific coast. . It even Ihe brown tinged 'eggs on the F.oston market where the colored variety is preferred to the snow white eggs so popular in New York. The big end of the poultry business busi-ness is the production and marketing market-ing of eggs. Yet, along toward June about half of the baby chicks, the roosters, are put on a fattening ration and out go a few carloads of fryers. At other seasons the boarder board-er hens "get tin1 ax" and at Thanksgiving Thanks-giving and ( 'hrisfmas the associa-t associa-t inn market s turkeys by the carload. car-load. From nothing to $:,,l000.()00 in a year would be a big accomplishment accomplish-ment for the steel industry. It was done witli eggs in Utah through co-. co-. operation. |