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Show : . c Utah Poultrymen Ship Out 50 Carloads Of Broiler Chickens , - shipped in special refrigerator cars leased by the association. According to Clyde C. Edmonds, general manager, the Utah poultry association is now prepared to render ren-der members the same efficient service in the handling of poultry, both broilers and hens, as has been the custom for years in the handling hand-ling of eggs. Poultrymen most any place in the state will be given efficient ef-ficient service on relatively short notice. Mr. Edmonds believes that the strong broiler market is a good indication in-dication of what might be expected in other poultry lines during the coming winter and next spring. The great decrease in the nation's broiler broil-er crop is positive evidence that the future laying flocks will also be greatly decreased, promising a corresponding slump in egg production pro-duction and improved prices. six carloads of fattened, dressed hens will be shipped to the Pacific coast to be sold principally on the San Francisco and Los Angeles markets. Poultrymen from Preston, Idaho, Logan and Brigham City, Utah, on the north, to Manti and Richfield on the south have contributed to the commercial crop and will receive re-ceive a share of the $200,000. Despite De-spite the depressed condition, unit prices on broilers this year are considerably con-siderably higher than last year. Utah producers have received from 14 to 15 cents per pound right at the coops, while last year 12 cents or less was the average price. Poultry for distant export was dressed by the Utah association at (Its central plant, 1800 South We3t Temple street in Salt Lake, while those for the local trade and for distribution throughout the inter-mountain inter-mountain states were handled at the newly acquired sub-plant at 45 West Seventh South street. Some 75 persons are employed in the poultry department, preparing 5,000 birds for market daily. At tho main plant 52 girls are employed picking chickens by means of the dry, or semi-scald method. After the feathers are removed the birds are thoroughly cooled, wrapped individually in paper and then placed 12 in a box. They are then frozen hard and Exports of choice broiler chickens chick-ens from, Utah this season will to-tol to-tol over 50 carloads or 1,000,000 pounds, it was announced recently recent-ly by officials of the Utah Poultry Producers' Cooperative association. Nearly 8,000 beehive state poultry-men poultry-men will receive about $200,000 from this source alone, it is estimated. esti-mated. Approximately 40 carloads of the "spring fries" have already been marketed out of the state by the Utah association, and most of the remainder of the crop will have been moved by August 1, according to Charles P. Rudd, manager of the association's poultry department. depart-ment. Shipments have been made to many of the important markets extending from the Pacific coast to the Atlantic seaboard. ' 1 For the first time in the history I of this state's poultry industry, J dressed broilers have been dis- patched to the New York metro- : politan area for consumption. The first car was sent July 1 and because be-cause of the splendid grade and pack brought a substantial premium pre-mium on the nation's greatest market. mar-ket. Shipments to the far eastern population center will aggregate at least 10 cars of dressed birds. They will be distributed through the local association's permanent New York sales agency under Benjamin Ben-jamin Brown, director of market. Of the total crop, 40 carloads or 650,000 pounds will move as live broilers to big packing concerns in Omaha, Chicago and other mid-western mid-western cities. In addition, about cents a bushel on 25-bushels-to-the-acre wheat this year they're out of luck. |