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Show TURKEY RAISING SHOULD DEVELOP Survey Reveals Industry One of Most Profitable. That "turkey production In the West should become one of the major farm enterprises if economic conditions condi-tions remain as good as they have been during the past three years" is the belief of F. B. Headley, chief of the department of farm development of the University of Neva-da agricultural agricul-tural experiment station. Basis for his conclusion, Headley says, is a cost of production study carried, on by his department during the last three years on five farms in Churchill county. Other profitable enterprises en-terprises on the farms surveyed, according ac-cording to the experiment station man, were alfalfa production, dairying and the raising of chickens, but turkeys brought in greater return for capital and labor expended. Cost of producing the average turkey, tur-key, which weighed 13 pounds dressed, on the basis of more than 5,000 birds covered by the study, was $3.o2, or approximately 27 cents a pound. "The bulk of the cost in producing turkeys is for feed.' Headley says. "On most farms pasture constitutes an essential part of the ration and it is probable that the low cost of production pro-duction is due in large part to the excellent alfalfa and grain stubble pasture that has been available." Other conclusions concerning turkey production drawn by Headley from the survey are that the interest on investment invest-ment is low, that "large flocks require less time per bird than the smaller flocks, and that over 75 per cent of all costs is for labor and feed." |