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Show Turkey Growers Pledge Cut In Turkeys For 1953 WASHINGTON Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson had a pledge from 23 turkey industry leaders today that they will slash production rather than depend on federal price supports. The turkeymen, members of a special advisory committee, took the stand during a day - long discussion of their probles at the Agriculture Department yesterday. yester-day. They voted unanimously against putting turkeys under regular price supports. And to make this possible, they recommended that big producers of turkeys drop 1953 output 12 to 15 per cent below the record 44,500,-000 44,500,-000 pounds of 1952. J. Arza Adams returned home Saturday morning from Washington, Washing-ton, D.C. where he spent Thursday and Friday conferring with other turkey industry leaders of the United States in the Department of Agriculture, regarding production produc-tion for 1953. The turkey leaders spent Thursday in committee meeting, meet-ing, and on Friday met as a group to correlate their thinking into a workable plan. |