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Show New Potato Deal Is Now Effective Final checks, in the $250,000 payments pay-ments to Utah turkeymen for their 1935 Thanksgiving birds, are being mailed out this week by the Utah Poultry Producers Cooperative association, asso-ciation, announces Charles P. Rudd, manager of the association's poultry department. The payments are being made, Mr. Rudd said, on the basis of 28 cents per pound on top grade turkeys, which is the best price received by the growers of Utah since 1931. Orderly cooperative marketing, improved im-proved general business and a short "gobbler" crop 'nationally, are given as reasons for the unusual good prices. Last year top grade Thanksgiving Thanks-giving fowls brought about 24 cents per pound. Scores of producers in the Gunnison Gun-nison district are receiving checks for turkeys marketed at Thanksgiving. Thanksgiv-ing. Individual amounts vary from a few hundred to several thousand dollars. dol-lars. The association members this year set a new all-time record for turkey quality. Mr. Rudd estimates that 9G per cent of the birds sold by the producei-s' organization were in the top grades so that the payments will average just slightly under 28 cents on the entire early pool. Herbert Beyers, Salt Lake, Northwestern North-western Turkey Growers' association general manager, reports his organization's organi-zation's Thanksgiving payments are aggregating more than $450,000, in-continued in-continued on last page) New Potato Deal j Is Now Effective (Continued from page 1) eluding the payments to Beehive state growers through the Utah association. as-sociation. Other cheeks are being-mailed being-mailed by this regional organization to state associations in Oregon, Idaho, Ida-ho, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming and Nevada. Early shipments by the northwestern group are the heaviest since 1930. Mr. Beyers announces that Utah's Christmas export turkeys already are moving to market. Like those in the Thanksgiving pool, they will be sold mostly in New York City, Newark, Boston, Philadelphia, Buffalo, Pitts- J burg, Chicago, Los Angeles and San ; Francisco. j |