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Show Makes Report of Turkey Business In Utah A summary and analysis of the turkey business in Utah, as reported by 15 large cooperutors, has just 1)0011 completed by Carl Frischkneehl extension poultryman of the Utah State Agricultural college. This is believed to be the first analysis of the turkey enterprise in this state, and the information is taken from the turkey account books summarized. summariz-ed. According to this study, fixed capital for the year amounting to $105 per farm, or 35 cents per bird, was required by the growers to raise 17,4.14 turkeys in Utah in 1033. In addition, operating capital amounting amount-ing to $1G13 per farm, or $1.33 per bird at marketing time, was also required. re-quired. Out of a total of 21403 poults hatched and purchased, 17,404 turkeys, tur-keys, or 01.5 per cent, were alive a; marketing time. About 100 of these birds were kept for home consumption consump-tion and breeding purposes, and the balance were sold at Thanksgiving and Christmas time for an average of $1,34 per bird. The total receipts per farm amounted amount-ed to $2151, while the total expenses, exclusive of the operator's labor and interest on the fixed capital for the year, averaged $1636 per farm, or $1.40 per bird. When interest at five per cent on the fixed capital for the year amounting to $20 per farm, is subtracted from the difference between be-tween the receipts and the other expenses, an average labor income for the operator, above all expenses, of $495 per farm, or 42 cents per bird, was realized. This year there are over fifty cooperators on the project and it is hoped that the report next year will be even more significant, states Mr. Frischknecht. |