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Show Turkey Industry Will Bring Profit Declaring the flocks of turkeys in Sanpete, Piute and Juab counties to look the healthiest and being in better bet-ter condition than in other sections, E. !. Bassett, associated with the Chil-ders Chil-ders Hatcheries at Santa Ana, Calif., predicted that the growers in these sections mentioned stood a mighty good chance for a good profit with the sale of the birds during Thanksgiving and Christmas times. Mr. Bassett came up from the coast the first of the week and Tuesday, in company with Ira Overfelt, banker, and locally interested in the many flocks, visited visit-ed Moroni, Nephi, Mayfield and Marysvale, where the larger number of the 25,000 are now being fed and prepared for the market. Grasshoppers, Grasshop-pers, of which there has been an abundance abun-dance during the summer months in practically all places where the birds were reared from poults, have afforded af-forded good feed, and generally all are in prime condition for the finishing finish-ing touches in fattening for the markets. mar-kets. In some of the early hatched flocks, spring toms now weigh from 17 to 19 pounds, and the average throughout is highly encouraging, i It will require tons of special food I to fit the vast number of turkeys for j the markets, but every grower will be I able to place fancy birds on the market mar-ket when sale time comes. The New York price today, it is reported, ho- vers around 32 cents per pound, and is . far ahead of that of last year. |