Show I Visit Turkey Processing Plant an anAt At Gunnison Tuesday Mr and Mrs Frank S. S Beckwith went to Gunnison to look through and take pictures of the processing of turkeys at that place They heartily recommend the trip to others as being very education education- al The birds arrive at the back of the plant and a re immediately unloaded unloaded unloaded un un- un- un loaded and killed lulled b by a group of men Before they are killed they are hung up on an endless chain to start their journey to the pin pin- ners As they leave the men who killed them they are partly picked by several other men and then they are carried through a vat of hot hoti I water for scalding At the end of I this vat another group of men of-men men take I still more feathers off oce so that they are turned over to the planers with just afew a a. few feathers left o 0 oThe oThe i The center of the large dressing I room is taken up by people who are the They work 11 by piece work and get gel Sc a bird for or pinning them The record of I the the plant is 66 birds for one pinner in a day Most of the do from 20 to 30 per day The bird are then taken to the checker who punches a card to show the bird has been checked in and then they are taken to the first j I coolin cooling room After a hort short stay there they are taken into the re refrigerating refrigerating refrigerating re- re room for final cooling In this thus room the capper places the head cap on the bird and then are ready for grading Howard Warnick government man does all the grading gradin and puts them In bins for the packers to get ready for shipment Each packer handles only one grade of bird From the packing room they are I then trucked to a refrigerated railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road car and await shipment to eastern markets The plant avera averages es about 2700 birds per day when running and at this season of the year the they are running only certain days The pictures were taken with the hope of finding a market for them I in some farm journal showing the processing of turkeys for the mar mar- ket Some of the pictures were cre good and some were faulty due to the large amount of steam in the room which the flashlight was unable un un- able Un-able able to penetrate |