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Show Someone Must Be Gobbling Up Those Turkeys Continuing in their efforts to solve their own production and marketing problems, Utah turkey growers are again sponsoring a special sales campaign during the first two weeks of August, according ac-cording to Dail A. Prows. Salina president of the Utah Turkey Federation. Mr. Prows advised that turkey growers have found their "self help" program paying off in greater movement of turkeys on a ear around basis as well as for holidays. Me said that national na-tional cold storage holdings of turkeys at present are considerably consid-erably below those of a year ago. despite the fact that the last crop was one of the largest in the history his-tory of the nation, lie said that at the beginning of the year I there were approximately -id million mil-lion more pounds of turkey in storage than on Jan. 1, 1;52. The latest government report, lv w-'ever, w-'ever, listed storage holdings on J turkeys lor June this year at about four million pounds lower than holding of a year earlier. Mr. Prows said that this is a result of intensive sales campaigns cam-paigns sponsored by the turkey growers of the nation under the National Turkey Federation and affiliated state federations. lie pointed out that this year's midsummer mid-summer Turkey Time campaign will continue to feature turkey meat as an "every day meat'' in I an effort to help relieve the g;eat production problem which tuikey growers have been faced wiiii. |