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Show Poultry Industry Shows Substantial Increase For 1933 Two million baby chicks were purchased by Utah poultrymen this spring, compared with 1,400,000 hi 1!'32, according to the annual chick report just released by Clyde C. F.dmonds, general manager of ' Utah Poultry Producers Cooperative Cooperat-ive association. This increase of 43 percent in 1 he number of c'nicks purchased by Beehive state commercial producers pro-ducers is said definitely to herald the end of the depression, at least as far as this state's egg and poultry production is concerned; Utah's commercial output of poultry and poultry products reached re-ached an all-time peak in 1930. find then was forced down by deductions de-ductions of 15 to 20 p-er cent in 11V31 and 1932, records show. Chicks bought in 1930 totalled 3,o00.000. The heavy baby chick purchases this spring predict the end of production pro-duction decline and give promise of a return to heallthy growt'ii, characteristic of Utah poult ry in-dustry in-dustry from 1932 to 1930, Mr. Edmonds Ed-monds asserts. |