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Show St. George to Host Utah Turkey Show in December A nationally recognized authority au-thority on turkeys, Charles S. Brewster of Portland, Ore., has been selected as judge of the fifth annual Utah Turkey show which .will be held at St. George on Dec. 18, 19 and 20 according to J. Arza Adams, Pleasant Grove, chairman. Mr. Brewster, who will also be a judge at the annual National Turkey show at Dallas, Texas, in January, has a great background in poultry and turkey breeding and development. After graduating graduat-ing from the Oregon State college col-lege in 1913 in poultry husbandry, hus-bandry, he spent several years at that institution and at Cornell and Purdue universities in extension exten-sion and experimental work in poultry husbandry. In 1920 he entered en-tered the feed business in charge of nutrition and feed formulation, and in 1924 was presented with a general license for turkey and poultry judging by the American Ameri-can Poultry association. Since then he has judged many shows, including the Pacific International Internation-al Livestock Exposition at Portland; Port-land; the California State Fair; Northwestern Turkey show at Oakland and Roseberg, Ore.; Montana State Turkey show at Bozeman; the Farwest Turkey show at Turlock, Calif., and' many ma-ny others of county, state and regional importance, including those at Caldwell and Nampa, Idaho. Mr. Brewster has also been closely associated with the development of the modern broad breasted bronze turkey from its beginning in the early 1930s. Along with the announcement of the turkey show judge, Mr. Adams named the committee for this year's Utah Turkey show. Dail A. Prows of Salina and William Wil-liam A. Barlocker of St. George are managers; Stanley Voorhees, Manti, chairman of the dressed division; Bill Sanders, La Verkin, chairman of the live division; Anson B. Call, Brgham City, and Elden Westenskow, Moroni, as chairmen of the junior division; David Carson, Logan, secretary, and Clay Robinson, Sandy, director direc-tor of publicity. As in previous years, the annual an-nual meeting of the Utah Turkey federation will be held in conjunction con-junction with the turkey show. Marion A. Olsen, Paradise, president, presi-dent, will be in charge of the meetings. |