Show Turkey Show V Records One of the Biggest Utah's annual youth turkey show shoN produced ed one of the largest turkeys to ever be entered Inthe in inthe inthe the two day event The bird weighed over forty pounds and won first place in the heavyweight heavy heavyweight heavyweight weight division Traditionally the prize winning winning winning win win- ning turkeys are auctioned and sold to the highest b bidder with th the tho money going to the young growers This years year's heavy turkey turkey turkey tur tur- key was raised by Jay Carter Cartera a H 4 member from Crom W Western 3 an B Box x Elder Coun County y As the auctioning au- au began for the tM champion it was apparent that a group of f merchants and businessmen from Irom the area had their eyes set n 01 o i this huge turkey When the bidding was over the turkey had brought a aprIce aprice aprice price of It was de de- de tided that the bird would be presented to Governor Calvin L. L Rampton and his family for Christmas dinner It was given in appreciation of Rampton's ex excellent ex-ellent ellent efforts s in h Utah maintain a healthy climate for lor agriculture and business Each year Utah raises from three to four million mUllo turkeys which places it near the top in total turkeys produced pro by states Of the more than counties comities in the tha United States Sanpete County in Sou South h Central Utah Ulah places plaes about thirteenth in turkey production 1 with Box El Elder Elder Elder El- El der County close behind The turkey industry in Utah through production feeds equipment lab labor r and sales generates about 50 million dollars to the states state's economy |