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Show Pulleys to Prepare 150,000 Turkeys For Market Another important step forward in the turkey industry in this locality is being taken by A. W. Pulley & Sons, pioneers in the turkey business. busi-ness. With greatly enlarged facilities, facil-ities, this concern will be equipped to not only prepare the birds for market with considerable saving in time and labor, but also will be prepared pre-pared to handle much larger quantities. quan-tities. The Pulley business corner is the scene of plenty of activity these days and every effort is being made to place the new facilities in readiness for the opening of the turkey picking pick-ing season by this time next week. A special representative of an eastern company arrived Wednesday Wednes-day with machinery which he will supervise the installation of. This unit will foe the new waxer, an important im-portant step in the dressing operations. opera-tions. Pulley's expended $10,000 in machinery, etc. last season to take care of the turkey dressing and pack ing end of their business. This year an additional $8,000 is being put into enlarged quarters and machinery. ma-chinery. Upstairs the office has been removed re-moved to the southwest corner and the space (formerly occupied by the office has been added to the refrigerator re-frigerator section. The refrigeration refrigera-tion rooms contain 50 cooling racks which hold 80 birds each or in other words 4000 birds can be cooled at one time. Downstairs in the basement the boiler is being moved out into a new addition to the basement to make room for the new waxer, etc. As the trucks unload the live birds at the back of the plant they are immediately taken into what is known as the "dying space" where the fowls are struck and then proceed pro-ceed to the scalder after which they are roughed, or in other words the feathers are removed by the pickers and the birds then proceed on moving mov-ing chain racks to the dryer and then on to the waxer. After being dipped in wax they are sprayed with cold water to set the wax which is then broken off, taking with it all pin feathers and down. The heads are wrapped and the birds proceed to the vertical racks which carry tviexm iii-v fn the refrigerator deDart- ment and placed on the cooling racks. An internal temperature of 38 degrees is reached before the birds are packed for shipping. The entire process requires 45 minutes from the time the fowls are killed until they reach the refrigerator. The dressing and packing season runs for 40 days. This year the Pulley company expect to prepare for market over 150,000 birds, raised in north Utah county, or three times the amount the plant handled last year. Of this number Pulley's expect ex-pect to market around 22,000 themselves. them-selves. These turkeys will be snipped to eastern markets. The turkeys are in better flesh at a younger age, over that of a year ago. It requires 75 pounds of mash and grain to feed a turkey from the time the fowls are hatched until ready for marketing. One quickly grasps the immensity of this industry in-dustry in North Utah county where over 150,000 birds will be prepared for markets by this one plant alone. There is an increase of 15 per cent in turkey production throughout the nation, however, Adolphus Pulley in commenting on this stated, it is hoped the buying power will be enough better by the time the birds are marketed to offset the increased production. : '-o |