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Show 1135 MEMBERS ! ! SECURED FOR POULTRY ASSN. ! First Truckload of 2500 Fowls Will Leave Washington Wash-ington County This Week fcir Los Angeles Market One hundred thirty-fit e members mem-bers have been secured in Washington Wash-ington county for the Producers Poultry company, of Los Angeles, An-geles, according to C. A. Steuben, Steu-ben, representative cf the company, com-pany, who has spent the past two weeks here. The majority of these members are in Washington, Enterprise En-terprise and Hurricane, with the balance frcm Leeds and St. George. There are now hi the neighborhood neighbor-hood of 4000 fowls in the county ready for shipment and a truck is expected in today from Los Angeles An-geles to pick up from 2000 to 2500 for that market. On the return trips the trucks will bring in supplies for members. Arrangements also will be made for shipping in baby chicks from coast, hatcheries and the company assures the grower a ready market mar-ket when they are mature. It is the plan to secure sufficient suffi-cient members for the organization organiza-tion in Washington county to warrant the sending in of a trui k every week which will assure the growers here a regular weekly pay check. Meetings were held last week in Hurricane. Enterprise and St. George at which details of the plan were gone into by Mr. Steuben. Steu-ben. Generally, he is meeting with a good response. It was explained that in Los Angeles, it is impassible impas-sible to get a constant supply of poultry and products to meet the fast growing need of that city. For this reason the company has found it necessary to sign up members in order to assure them a volume sufficient . to meet their needs. They are advising the construction con-struction of oval brooder houses throughout the county and so far contract-s have been secured by Victor Iverson for the erection ot between 25 and 30 of these .-! rue-tuns. rue-tuns. Those are being built in thrte sizes, 8x32, to handle 300 chirks per week; 10x40. 5(K )mt week, f.nd 22x00, 1000 r wcrk. |