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Show Poultrymen Fear Excess in 1942 Egg Output The United States department of agriculture officials are concerned con-cerned as much with possibilities of a heavy overproduction of poultry and eggs in 1942 as they are with possibilities that production produc-tion may not be adequate to supply sup-ply nutritional needs of the country coun-try and provide additional supplies sup-plies for lease-lend export. Clyde C. Edmons, a member of a national committee on poultry and defense manager of "the Utah Poultry Producers' Cooperative association made this statement last week following his return from Phoenix, Arizona where he addressed a convention of the United Producers' and Consumers' Consum-ers' Cooperative. "Poultry production in Utah," he said, "is now below the 1940 level because prices last winter and spring were low- When prices began to rise, it was too late to obtain substantially larger numbers num-bers of chicks. "Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard has asked that Utah produce pro-duce 16 per cent more eggs in 1942 than in 1941, which would 1 make the 1942 produetion about equal to the 1940 production. He has assigned similar inrrpasps tn other states and has asked that poultryment police their industry to prevent a huge increase which would react -to the detriment of the industry. "My guess is that the Utah production pro-duction for 1942 will be up to a 20 per cent increase." 1 |