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Show ' "Northwester" A Hybrid Fowl Fast Becoming Well Known In Pleasant Grove, Utah County as a hobby (he is a foreman at Geneva Steel) is becoming- a full-grown full-grown industry. He constructed a cinder block building near his home and ordered a consignment of the cross-bred chicks. With these first Northwesters a variety var-iety which was developed in Cen-tralia, Cen-tralia, Wash., by James H. Know-land Know-land after 15 years of breeding and cross breeding of pheasants and meat chickens Mr. Lipscomb worked out a system for growing- Utah county residents are fast becoming well acquainted with what Pacific Coast people know as "Northwester," a hybrid fowl, about seven-eighths chicken and one-eight pheasant. The Northwester is deluxe table fare and is being "assembly-line" grown in the Pleasant Grove plant of Earl Lipscomb and Mrs. Lipscomb. Lip-scomb. What Mr. Lipscomb started star-ted a little more than a year ago the birds in cages. Only three times tim-es are the choice eating birds handled' once to place them in their chick cages, once to "thin" them out into fattening cages, and once to slaughter and prepare them for marketing. With little room to romp and play, and with plenty foood and water on which to dine, Northwesters North-westers mature rapidly. At 12 weeks the females weigh about three pounds, while the males average nearly four. The birds are squatty, but with long necks. They have thick thighs and drumsticks; drum-sticks; broad, deep breasts; plump wings. Their backs are small. Important in the development of these unique birds is their diet which consists of a special formula for-mula of highly concentrated protein pro-tein feeds supplied by Goode Grain Mills, Pleasant Grove. Vern Goode carefully selected the best in grains, chemicals, supplements, & added generous amounts of ground corn to insure swift fattening. He ground out the feeds, progressively more concentrated as the bird's growth advanced. Mr. Lipscomb reports that Vie has about 2000 birds maturing all the time with a steady order at cafes and private individuals for approximately 150 birds a week. Because the Northwester plant is extremely well-planned and modern, mod-ern, Mr. Lipscomb and his wife can remove 25 birds from then-cages, then-cages, slaughter them, pick them with an automatic picker, draw them and have them ready for the ice box within an hour at no greater price than either frozen or fresh frying chickens packaged by big industry. Northwesters get their popularity popul-arity from the tender meat all leg and breast and from the fine pheasant flavor which is ever-so-iaint in the entire, bird. |