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Show Turkey Growers Get Miilion From Bank Within the next few months close upon 1,000,000 American housewives will build feasts around 'western turkeys which will have been bought to their tables through a sc?le ccoperative marketing agency -the Northwestern Turkey Growers association of Salt Lake, accord-it? accord-it? to word the U. S. A. C. Extea-sion Extea-sion Service received from the Berkeley bank for cooperatives. This organization has just issued a com-icituient com-icituient to finance the sixth year's cperations of the association to the niit of $1,000,000. Although the Berkeley bank, one tt the units of the farm, credit administration, ad-ministration, is financing the turkey tur-key association for the fourth suc-JP-ve year, the loan just closed is the largest operating fund so far required by thr; cooperative agency, pwins the past four seasons, Iho urkey association has receiver a "eater volume oi advances on loans Jhan any other single borrower Irom the bank, the total amounting I nly $2,500 000. At the time current line of credit was ai-"Ped ai-"Ped for, all previous disbursements disburse-ments had been oompletely repaid. The Northwestern Turkey Crow- association has developed re-arkably re-arkably since the time of its org-tion org-tion in 1930. Today it serves i -.TO Individual turkey raisers in J, Washington, Oregon. Nevada, "Jzoria, Montana, Colorado, Idaho, ey-as and Wyoming. The associa-oi associa-oi which Herbert Beyers is wneral manager, is the turkey mar-ri mar-ri eung agency for aoout 4U local t Mratives in these states. It an-i an-i im marketine a. maximum of n;".r'"-G pounds of birds between bZ E1:d next August. This may be 2"? to 3,500.000 pounds s"ld a inn 5, 116 first of its oper- VoluLin 1930 31. Last vear the amcunted to 7.000,000 lbs. |