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Show Slash in Freight Rates ! Will Save $70,000 For Turkey Growers Turkey and poultry producers in I'tah will be saved S70.0O0 during the coming year as a result re-sult of reduced freight rates on processed poultry shipped east, according to a report by R. L. McDonough, traffic manager for Utah Poultry and Farmers- cooperative. co-operative. The reduction in rates took effect four months after a meeting meet-ing in Chicago of the Western Trunk Line Traffic Managers committee of which Mr. McDonough McDon-ough voiced protests of the poul-trymen's poul-trymen's organization. Since July Utah producers have had to pay freight rates equal to those paid by producers on the Pacific coast for shipments east. Fintl action by the traffic manager's committee com-mittee brought a reduction of 27 cents per hundredweight in shipments ship-ments to Chicago, 37 cents to points on the Mississippi, and 39 cents to Missouri river points. "The lowered freight rates not only help members of Utah Poultry Poul-try but every turkey grower in the state," remarked Herbert Beyers, Norbest Turkey Growers Assn. "All Utah growers owe Mr. McDonough and Utah Poultry a vote of thanks for persistent work that will benefit so many Utah farmers and poultrvmen." In 1950 Utah produced about 32.000,000 pounds of turkey, of which 70 per cent went to eastern east-ern markets, according to George Rudd, poultry division manager, Utah Poultry. Production this year is reportedly 15 to 20 per cent higher than in 1950. |