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Show UTAH Tl'KKKYS SET 1IX-TIME RECORD FOR FINE QUALITY A new all-time record for U"'-key U"'-key quality was established at Thanksgiving time by the Beehive Bee-hive state growers who marketed market-ed birds through the Utah Poultry Poul-try Producers Cooperative Association, Asso-ciation, it is announced by Charles P. Rudd, manager ot the association's poultry department. depart-ment. It seems almost unbelieveable-but unbelieveable-but ninty-six per cent of all the "holiday birds" in the state poultry association's huge Thanksgivi ng pool graded "prime," Mr. Rudd points out. explaining: "And when I say "prime" I mean just that for all of these turkeys were graded by inspectors licensed by the United States and using federal standards." stand-ards." The poultry manager has some more good news. He reports re-ports that Utah's cooperative producers pro-ducers will receive about $150,. 000.00 for their turkey pool of some 700,000 pounds, and that prices to the individual will average between six and seven cents a pound higher than a year ago on all grades. Last year the price received by growers for early turkeys was around fourteen four-teen cents a pound on top grades. The almost phenominally high grading received on turkeys produced pro-duced by state association members mem-bers this year is attributed to several things: First, the use of U. S. government grading standards, stand-ards, giving an accurate test of quality and thus guaranteeing to the grower that he will receive re-ceive a "prime" grading on a prime bird; second, the constant national program conducted by the U t a h poultry association among its members, and, third, Utah's ideal turkey growing climate. cli-mate. For years, the association, in conjunction with County agents and the poultry division of the U. A. C, has been teaching its members the proper manner in which to feed, care for and dress turkeys; its officers and employees employ-ees have spent much time among the growers in the field in educational edu-cational work and on demonstrations, demonstra-tions, and this year, as in the past, it operated some thirty-five turkey receiving stations throughout through-out the state, making unnecessary unneces-sary injurious long hauls and repeated re-peated handling. The effectiveness of this constructive con-structive program is plainly seen when the ninty-six per cent of prime birds grown this season by cooperative turkey men is compared com-pared with a sixty per cent figure of six years ago, when the program pro-gram of education' and federal grading first began. The extraordinary quality . of these Utah birds is not only bring, ing fame and reputation to the cooperative producers in this state from all over America, but it is paying them large dividends. There are several cents a pound difference between the price paid for prime birds and those in the undergrades, and yet regardless of price the prime turkeys are the best sellers, Mr. Rudd explains. ex-plains. Herbert Beyers, general manager mana-ger of the Northwestern Turkey Growers association, the organization organi-zation handling turkey exports from Utah and about nine other western states has an encouraging encourag-ing announcement. |