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Show Utah Poultry Gives News Of Egg Industry The "Chicken of Tomorrow" contest is going to be- continued. The three-year contest officially closed last spring, but the results in obtaining better chicken thru the project were so encouraging that t tie Poultry and Egg National Boaul asked its continuance. A. & P. Tea Company, which put up the original prize money, has announced an-nounced it will continue, accord- ing to Clyde C. Edmonds, General I Manager of Utah Poultry and Far. mers Cooperative and a member of the PENB board of directors. Utah activities in this program will be outlined later. The hen delivers a perfect egg most of the time, but only a small percentage of the eggs are perfect by the time they reach market. The trouble comes from faulty handling, and the women folk are out to correct the situation and eliminate those "hidden losses." The Utah Poultry and Farmers Cooperative women's auxiliary has oragnized in most towns and cities of the state and a campaign is being launched for proper handling of eggs which includes: clean nests to eliminate washing, frequent gathering, ga-thering, proper cooling and packaging, pack-aging, and temperature and hum. idity control. Government figures show that consumption of meat has increased 15 per cent over last year. But the national average is still only 23 pounds of chicken and 4.1 pounds of turkey per person per year, compared to 153 pounds of red meat. The U.S.D.A. is recommending continued high production of eggs for 1949. The suggested national ggoal calls for 425 million hens' and pullets on farms bv January j 1. ' I With 420 million hens and pull- j ets. abundant feed and good man- agement (Tie U. S. consumers can j expect as many eggs in 1949 as j there were in 1948. A difference of one million birds would mean a difference of one egg per U. S. I consumer. Last year American's averaged 380 eggs apiece, com- j pared to the prewar average of 298 i H. M. Blackhurst. assistant Gen- eral Manager of Utah Poultry and Farmers Cooperative and best i feeds authority in the Intermount-ain Intermount-ain Region, reports that feed prices ' have stopped their downward trend. Wheat, corn and barley have advanced the past week along with concentrates. Western range is re. ported "not too good," which indicates in-dicates heavy feeding of cattle and sheep. Future trends in feed prices likely will be up. The turkey show at Provo has given the pubblic a much better conception of the new $14,000,000 industry . . . Utah turkeys are becoming almost as well known as the famed Utah "Milk White" eggs, which are so much in demand now in New York and other major markets. |