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Show Alfalfa Meal Mill Starts Operations; . Company Plans Big Campaign After experiencing much grief in getting the necessary machinery and equipment for the new plant at Centerfield, Cen-terfield, the management of the Gunnison Valley Alfalfa Meal & Feed company announces that everything ev-erything is now in readiness to commence the first work of the new-plant. new-plant. The big transformers have been set. and the first try-out of the plant was made yesterday when the initial run was made. "We are highly pleased with the plant," said an official of the company com-pany to a News man last night, " and when once in full running capacity we hope to make a success of the venture from every standpoint. The plant is equipped with alfalfa choppers, chop-pers, mixers and all the necessary equipment to meet the present demands de-mands and when we are justified the buildings and equipment will be enlarged. en-larged. With the present plant we can handle 40 tons of feed per day. chopping and mixing." At an expense of several thousand dollars local men have established another industry for the valley and l from the present outlook it will prove one of the successful features that will foige the valley to the front. It is planned by the incor porators to buy several head of stock and fatten them at the corrals at the mill. In addition to this local feeders feed-ers will sation a number of head of Rattle at the plant for fattening preparatory pre-paratory for the markets. And, too. it is planned to seek markets for the products of the mill in eastern centers cen-ters and already the Gunnison Valley project is seeking a mart for its pro-lucts pro-lucts in some of the large eastern "it ies where stock is fed the mill product pro-duct and where the best results are obtained by feeding the prepared alfalfa al-falfa meal. |