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Show SHIPS FIRST BIRDS 10 BOULDER CITY Prices Low Sow and Little Hope Held for liaise IVfoi'e Late Spring. The Dixie Products made the first shipment of chickens to Boulder City last week, and hereafter will make weekly shipments. ship-ments. According to Theodore Malm, president of the company, com-pany, a yearly contract for all poultry and egg requirements of that city will be closed at the end of this week. H. W. Staples of Los Angeles, An-geles, manager of sales for Dixie Products, visited here this week with his brother, A. T. Staples. He made a survey of the chickens chick-ens available for the March and April markets, and from information infor-mation which he has received, stated that he does not believe the prices will rise much before later in the spring. Mr. Malm will visit Los Angeles An-geles during the next week and close the contracts for turkey poults. The prices will be issued March 31 for all deliveries f. 0. b. plant, at Washington. Mr. Malm also states that something must be wrong with the sales of chickens to the peddlers ped-dlers last week. Two shipments were traced, and it was found that the prices they received in Los Angeles were about the same as those paid in St. George. Producers should follow peddlers' ped-dlers' transactions very closely, check their own weights, and select the birds they want to sell. 1 The Dixie Products' new poultry poul-try house is completed and in operation, and a number o I chickens have already been conditioned con-ditioned and shipped from there, j The company will take colored j chickens from every producer in ! any quantity and store them at ! the plant for future shipments to ! California. This will give every chicken rais-er an opportunity to i dispose of his birds at the highest high-est possible market prices. j |