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Show Christmas usually can bo liamlleil -at New Years mid if not they can he frozen and stored for the soring ; market. At Thanksgiving, Mayors ; so dom take more than the volume ; needed to sui'l'l.v the immediate demands. de-mands. I POULTRYMEN " GET BIG PRICE FOR TURKEYS SALT LAKE CITY, Nov., 19. Participants In the Thanksgiving turkey pool of the Utah Poultry Producers, Pro-ducers, a -cooperative market ing organization or-ganization o"f approximately 1600 Utah poultrymen and the Utah State Farm Bureau received 30 cents a pound for their birds, the highest price ever paid by a turkey pool in Utah, according to announcement announce-ment made by officials of the producers pro-ducers association. The entire pool was marketed in Newark, New Jersey, and the receiving concern said it could have handled many more turkeys at the same price. At this figure the producer will receive between $3.50 and $4 for each bird, for the turfkeys handled by thep ool are said to have been of unprecedented quality and average approximately ten pounds each. A good portion. of, the turkeys came from the Uintah1 basin and the 36 cents is the righest price ever received re-ceived by the turkey raisers of that section. The association, which has managed man-aged pools for three years, reports a remarkable improvement in the way the farmers handle the birds. "Three years Jigo'," said Albetrus Willardsen, vice president of the producers, who handled field operations opera-tions for the pool this year, "they did not even know how to dress a turkey. Now they are firm believers in the desirability of preparing the turkey shipments for a critical trade. Every barrel of turkeys going go-ing out in the pool carries a stenciled sten-ciled label telling it comes from Utah, and every turkey has the name of Utah stamped on the head wrapper. The plan was adopted to popularize Utah turkeys and to educate consumers to the point w-here they will realize Utah turkeys tur-keys mean turkeys of top quality. We want to get them in the habit of buying Utah turkeys frequently." The pool management expects to handle for the Christmas season a pool approximately twice the size of that assembled for Thanksgiving and assembling of this movement will commnece about December 7. A price as favorable as that for Thanksgiving is expected. At Christmas, it is pointed out, buyers buy-ers are more liberal in their offers, for turkeys are not moved at |