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Show Turkey Dinner Drive Launched by Industry in Utah Utah turkey for Easter received re-ceived an enthusiastic response from representatives of the foxis Industries at a meeting in Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce headquarters recently. In charge of the meeting, Dail A. Prows, Salina. president of the Utah Turkey Federation, told representatives of hotels, restaurants, restaur-ants, and wholesale and retail food groups that the huge carryover carry-over of excellent quality turkeys tur-keys in all sizes from the 1952 bumper crop must be cleared to make way for the new crop this coming fall. lie pointed to the hazards of a depressed fall market mar-ket If the present supply of turkeys tur-keys is not cleared. There was one hundred per cent pledge of cooperation in the Easter campaign cam-paign from those attending the meeting. Many others who were unable to attend verbally expressed ex-pressed their pledges, to support the turkey Industry. Mr. Prows pointed out the secret of success of previous Easter market. He said today people are eating more turkey than every before, not only for holidays, but for every day of the year. According to the Commodity Com-modity Programs Division, poultry poul-try branch, Production and Marketing Mar-keting Administration, the civilian civil-ian per capita consumption of turkeys has gained 57.6 per cent from 1944 to 1951. Mr. Prows added ad-ded that unofficial estimate of civilian turkey consumption for 1952 Is approximately six pounds per capita, or 82 per cent increase over 1944. "Utah is one of the top 10 turkey producing states of the nation", declared Mr. Prows. He said that it has gained and maintained main-tained this position during the past 20 years. In 1929 Utah was producing slightly more than 200,000 turkeys a year. Today that number has been increased 10 times, with, an approximate gross income from the entire industry in-dustry exceeding $17,000,000, he reported. The Utah Turkey Federation Feder-ation president said that about 90 per cent of this animal wealth j carries from outside the state, inasmuch in-asmuch as about 90 per cent of the turkeys from Utah are ship-oed ship-oed from Utah to outside markets. |