Show GROWING AN AND FATTENING TURKEYS FOR MARKET for a considerable number of 0 years the raising of turkeys has been engaged in more or low less by some of the farmers farmen of iron iran son and washington counties but not net until the building of the processing plant in cedar city in the fall of 1939 was the inda industry try taken up on a in more extensive scale and even up to the present time the possibilities in 01 this business and the economic advantage in many homes hernes has scarcely been touched there are a number of encouraging phases of the growing of tut turkeys that should prove a decided incentive for many more people to actively s support the movement and mainly for far the reason that who ever goes into the business either on a large or small scale they are am the ones who receive the greatest benefit I 1 only need to mention a practical ease case illustrating the foregoing statement A married lady who each year since the plant has been in operation has come with her small flock of turkeys and has had them processed at the plant and each time has received a 2 nice check in payment for the turkeys she has raised and fattened tor for market this year she had 75 turkeys with an average weight of 22 pounds saul and at t the selling price this year she will wili all go to her home with a check of at least this thai lady I 1 am sure has not neglected her responsibilities in the home she has taken a lot of satisfaction in seeing a job well done and at the same tort time received is a nice sum of money lor for the e effort put forth and incidentally this lady has worked at the plant nearly every year during the processing season receiving a nice sizeable check for her service while there what she has done in a small way others have done on is far larger scale some of the growers of turkeys this year ha have already received and other will receive checks check of five ten fifteen twenty and as high digh as a dollars for their turkeys ays eys thu this of course would be their I 1 gross return but even after the cost cast of feed and processing ia taken out a very substantial margin will be iff arft I 1 think it is safe to in say that the griss gross return from luck turkeys 0 Y s processed r ever at the plant this ye year a r wj will jj casa run over 50 0 As we all know our basic indusi try in this section has been livestock principally sheep the turkey business does not in any anyway way interfere f erest with mit lai this business the 1 e capite capital interi investment e in the growing of turkeys is a not even a circum circumstance is ei compared with the amount involved indol in the sheep business and neither is lt it an all year lob job |