Show I 1 POULTRY RANKS WELL AS UTAH INDUSTRY though utah has been in tho the poul 1 try industry as a national factor a little over two years sho she has reached tho the point where her eggs and dressed sed poultry establish top prices on t tho lie now york market unquestionably key to markets throughout tho the nation that this should transpire in such aiichi a brief time against competition iet from california washington now new jersey and a of bild dlo die west states that have been active in the industry for many years Is lottle short of 0 remarkable it indicates above all else that utah has conditions natural if not ideal for the production ot at the top quality eggs and poultry the utah poultry producers cooperative A a is a 0 c bation founded a little over two years ago by the larger and more aggressive producers of tho the state under the guidance of the utah state farm bureau stands as aa ono one of the few cooperative marketing societies in tile the united states able to pay its own way from the start bath eggs and poultry were given welcome on all markets hence the cooperative and its members were able to enjoy good fortune from the very start last year the association handled in the neighborhood of eggs this moans means an enormous cash tur turnover but the greatest growth in the industry is just commencing 9 say those closest to the activity benjamin brown president of tile the cooperative predicts that within a few years tho the poultry industry in utah will represent a business tur turnover n of annually 1 I have been joshed many times about this president brown asserts but I 1 believe my figuring will prove its legitimacy there are in utah farmers it if of this number were to maintain flocks of birds each it would mean producing lions the records or oc our association show each cacti producing lien hen will bring to a year at the most conservative estimate catl mata there them la Is the industry utah la Is able to excell in egg production because of at climatic conditions extremely favorable favor ablo and low cost feed the producers are able to produce a superior product at low cost coat tho the making of an egg la Is a 11 mystery but under proper conditions one lien hen can produce much finer eggs than her sister under radically different conditions condl tlona in another part of the country utah producers produce ra cannot explain satisfactorily why the quality of their eggs is consistently so god but it la Is else new york dealers would not clamber for utah eggs a BO 0 persistently one of the greatest crea test possibilities for utah is the egg and poultry industry and to bring a industry each cacti farmer need but possess a tow few hens say about the number he ought to have it if properly carrying out the principles accepted as constituting a balanced farming scheme |