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Show Springville Turkey Shipments Increase SPRINGVIIiLE Approximately 4000 turkeys have been shipped from this vicinity for the Thanksgiving market, growers reported Saturday. This number constitutes the great percentage of the birds raised here, only a few being fed for the Christmas Christ-mas market There were considerably consider-ably fewer turkeys raised her this year than, for several seasons. Mell Ford was the largest grower. He made a single shipment of approximately ap-proximately 3000 birds through the Utah Poultry Cooperative association. associa-tion. Ford raised his turkeys in Hobble Creek canyon, where range and water facilities, with cooler nights, resulted In a fine grade of turkeys and low mortality rate among his flocks. |