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Show I Trenton Turkey Plant IBusy Processing Birds ment. When the plant reach, operation, a weekly n 'i about $-1000 wm -be Pj i from the three ecii each producer pavs his birds processed and Last year the assoeh.iJ"'1' $1100 above nil cos,s : payments on a $2900 F. ;--lty administration loan ' "I were invested in eqillr, ,f ' year, but any profits c "' J will be distributed to : officers said. One piece of equips, ordered is expected t0 ' work when it arrives ' ' ' yard said. It is a machin,-, ''J oft tail feathers, a job " by men employes, A mvv 5 strip shoVt wing feathers' ' cannot be removed by hj-.n"." is in operation. Women"'' remove only the small .',"' ers. ':-' l Approximately 130,000 j Will be Handled Well into its second year ol operation, the Cooperative Processing Pro-cessing Plant of the Cache Val-! Val-! ley Turkey Growers' association at Trenton is now functioning at ; j full speed with about 60 women j and 25 men employes and soon j have about 125 workers process- j I ing some 2400 turkeys a day. j i . . prime classification. No birds have been processed so far for civilian market, Mr. Hillyard explained, as the federal feder-al government, after obtaining its early-season birds for overseas shipment, has been purchasing total to-tal output of the plant to provide holiday dinners for service men in the United States. However, this demand is expected to be filled soon, and birds will be available for sale in Utah and out-of-state markets, he said. Efficiency of the plant has virtually doubled since last yare with the addition of a cooling and washing room, Mr. Hillyard said. Previously, birds were hung for cooling in the same room where pickers worked, but crowded conditions necessitated the expansion. The new cooling room provides space for the birds to hang for several hours before transfer to the grading room and then to the cold storage room. This natural cooling saves costs in the refrigeration room, Mr. Hillyard said. The birds are moved from cold storage directly into refrigerator cars for shpi- - Best production so far this sea- j son processed about 1800 birds, Neal Hillyard, manager, reports. Output is expected to be increased in-creased as more turkeys become ready for market and as more workers now finishing sugar beet harvest are released for process- ' ing work. The plant is scheduled to process about 150,000 turkeys, about double last year's produo tion during the season, he said. About 30 members of the assc ciation and about 15 non-membel producers who get turkeys processed pro-cessed in Trenton are expected to get good financial returns on their crop this year, with prima birds selling at 42.3 cents pel pound. Many growers have flocks of several thousand each, and one producer whose birds were processed pro-cessed last week had an average weight per bird of 18 pounds, with 96 per cent rating in the |