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Show Utah Poultrymen Get Higher Prices "The poultry situation thorughout the nation, which was more or h a disturbed by the prolonged depression, is making a steady come-back and ia really gaining much faster than the average agricultural pursuit. Eg:.i and poultry, comparatively speaking, are holding up good and a slight increase in-crease is being shown in the prices paid to the producer, and this fact can be regarded as mighty encouraging." encourag-ing." This was the version given by Albertus Willardson, in charge of the poultry products section of the federal feder-al land board, located at Washington, D. C, where Mr. Willardson makes his headquarters. Mr. Willardson, who is taking a brief vacation from his strenuous duties, du-ties, accompanied by Mrs. Willardson, are in Gunnison and are at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Willardson until after the Christmas holidays. Western poultry producers, according accord-ing to Mr. Willardson, are far better off than the eastern producers, for the reason that better eggs and better bet-ter stock are maintained, as a rule. But the western man should keep posted as to production, prices, ce. If the tendency to overproduce is signalled, then the production should be controlled. Wheat and cotton ap?"- given as good examples, for the reason rea-son that both of these commodities show an overproduction, with the result re-sult that the producers are holding ther products and must, of necessity, wait until the demand becomes greater. great-er. Careful study of the marts' and the demand are two essentials for the poultrymen of the west. Utah eggs demand from 5 to 20 cents per dozen more on the eastern markets than do those that are produced in the middle west and southern states,.' and only for the reason that the Utah growers are on the cooperative selling plan and consolidating their shipments. Western turkeys, shipped to New York and eastern distributing points before the Thanksgiving demand, netted net-ted the western men from six cents more and better as against those raised close to the doors of the consumers con-sumers at Washington and New York. -The turkeys, too, sent out through tho Northwestern Turkey Growers association, asso-ciation, proved far better than those raised in the New England states. No directing organization in the .sales, but placed on the markets by individual indivi-dual raisers, has proved a poor way to dispose of the poultry, as is shown in the difference in the prices received receiv-ed for the western birds, as compared with those raised in the eastern and middle western sections. Generally speaking, the industrial districts of the east, are yet in the throes of the" "depression, but big business busi-ness men are predicting a change within the next few months. |