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Show Local Ice Plant ' Will Be Operated . 1 Clyde C. Edmonds, secretary for the Utah Poultry Producers, Inc., and who spent the first of the week here on business matters, announced that the local plant would not be closed, but that on the contrary great activity had been planned here for the coming season. The local plant will no longer be known, however, how-ever, as the Central Utah Producers Exchange, but now that it has been absorbed by the Utah Poultry Producers, Pro-ducers, Inc., it will be used as one of the auxiliary plants and will be known as the Gunnison branch. The ice plant, according to Mr. Edmonds, will be started within the next thirty day if the demands are sufficient by the public to justify. Several requests have been made by citizens for service during the summer sum-mer and it is believed that a sufficient suffi-cient number of patrons will be secured se-cured to justify steady operations of the plant. It is proposed, to increase the battery bat-tery at the station for feeding purposes pur-poses which will enable the operators to care for from 5,000 to 10,000 chickens chick-ens will be put on a ten-day special feeding after which they will be ready for the market. After a few weeks of special feeding the chickens chick-ens will then be ideal for the market and this will be one of the features carried on at the Gunnison branch. There will also be many broilers when the poultrymen begin culling the flocks and it is estimated that from 500 to 1,000 pounds a day will be handled at the Gunnison branch. Mr. Edmonds stated that by the time the baby chicks started this spring begin laying in the fall there will be increased activity here. Many thousands thous-ands of chicks are being imported into the valley and with the increased flocks the egg shipments this fall will prove a big item. |