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Show Profits In Turks, Says Poultryman If the old adage, "one extreme follows fol-lows ano her," is true, 1933 ought to be a fairly good year for those who continue to raise turkeys. No one, of course, is prepared to state just what the price will be for turkeys this fall, but there are a few factors that appear ap-pear to be favorable at this time, writes Carl Frischknecht, A. C. extension ex-tension poultryman. First of all, production this year in the United States will likely be considerably con-siderably less than it was last year, when it is believed the largest crop on record, amounting to 19,000,000 birds, was produced. The extremely low prices received for turkeys in 1932 were indeed discouraging to many and the demand for baby poults this spring, esTjecially in the larger commercial turkey producing areas, appears to be considerably below what it was a year ago at this time. Likewise, Like-wise, lack of money and credit with which to purchase and brood poults this spring are other factors that will j likely reduce the number of turkeys that are raised in 1933. While it is true that the cold storage stor-age holdings of turkeys are at present pres-ent considerably above those of a year ago, it is also true that more people than ever before are eating iurkey throughout the entire year. It is therefore possible that the present supply in cold storage will be entirely entire-ly exhausted by the time the new crop is ready to market. The number of turkeys being imported im-ported by the United States from the Argentine and elsewhere is also on the decrease. During the eleven-mon'h period from January to November, 1932, only 474,000 pounds of turkeys were imported by this country as compared with a total of 5,044,000 pounds in 1931. ' . Another item that must not be overlooked over-looked is the fact that turkeys today are being ra:sed more economically than ever before, and the producer dees not need to get as much for his product to realize the same amount of profit that he did formerly. T ories in brooding have been ma-' ma-' '-i 'lly reduced by the improved methods me-thods tha! have been adopted, and better care and management in general gen-eral throughout the entire growing ;nd developing period have made it ixssih'e to produce and market a het-t-v grad" of turkeys than ever before. be-fore. F-ed cos's, as well, are the low-. low-. c:-t they have been for a number of I years, and although the present is l'kely not the time to encourage much expansion of the turkey industry, it is believed that those who have plenty plen-ty of range, who already have the necessary equipment, and who have I (Continued on last page) Profit In Turks, Says Poultry man (Continued from page 1) had experience in raising turkeys, can well afford to brood poults again tl lis year.. Since good poults can be purchased this year for 30 cents each, and with good feeding it requires only about five pounds of feed to produce a pound of live turkey, it is evident that one can still market his feed to advantage through turkeys even when the birds sell for as low as 12 cents a pound, providing, of course, that equipment for brooding and rearing is already available on the farm and disease losses are reduced to a minimum. |