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Show HATCHERIES MOVE INTO PEAK SEASON As we move into the new year we move into the peak season for the twenty-seven hatchers and many poultrymen who maintain breeding flocks for the hatcheries that are serving the people of Utah and the intermountain country coun-try by supplying baby chicks and turkey poults. This group is known as the Utah Hatchers and Breeders. For nearly twenty-five years this group has been organized for the purpose of breeding and hatching better Utah produced chicks and poults. The hatcheries are located from Logan on the north to St. George on the south. Before the national Poultry Improvement Im-provement Plan was adopted, Utah breeders had a self-improvement plan of their owrt that was operating operat-ing on a voluntary basis. Many of the men and groups who initiated initi-ated this policy of better chicks and poults are' still active in Utah today. Through the years they have more than kept pace with the times, and today Utah hatcheries in buildings,'' incubators and equipment equip-ment are on a par with those to be found in any state. They have exclusive turkey hatching capacity for 1,000,000 turkey poults and 2,250,000 capacity ca-pacity for baby chicks. |