Show poultry ti tips aps more than separate poultry farms are actively operating in the amclia american a fork district this count does docs n not t include the family coop holding a dozen hens which nearly every family has baa but J Is a close estimate of the number of 0 commercial flocks being operated nearly a million dollars worth ot of poultry products were shipped from this city during 1920 1929 and the early reports ot of the 1930 1030 season indicate that the million and a quarter mark will be surpassed this year more than new coops have been built this spring some of them of the toot foot varT variety ety in the neighborhood ot of baby chicks have been shipped into this territory which means a record fall crop ot of eggs live poultry in 1 carload lots go 90 out to the eastern markets every week some weeks seeing three and four cars loaded with the spring broilers with a record high week ot of cases of eggs shipped during one ot of the high price weeks bringing in approximately 00 to local poultry men tor for one weeks payroll the cash value of the poultry industry to the locality can readily be teen seen 1 eggs enough to be placed end to end and stretch out lor for miles were shipped out during 1829 1929 packed in cases ol of thirty dozen each enough cases were wen loaded out to form a wall r complete around the town eight tiers high A wall of egg cases over eight feet in the air and ten thousand cases left on the inside enough to line the state highway on both sides from salt lake to american fork yes american fork Is id the poultry center of utah american fork citi zen |