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Show STATE ASSURED PLENTY OF GOOD TURKEYS There will be plenty of turkey (and the very best in quality and flavor) for Thanksgiving, and the delicacy will not cost much, if any, more than was paid in 1946. While millions of pounds already have been processed and shipped to eastern states. Utahns will get a break in the very special birds which will be killed and processed during the next 10 days, reported Utah Poultry Producers Assn.'s poultry division. Mr. Rudd, whose job is to gather in the birds and then to distribute them throughout the United States as well as in and around Salt Lake City, warns that although the supply is plentiful, housewives will be smart to order their Thanksgiving birds immediately immedi-ately so that grocers and butchers in turn may place their orders early and be assured of getting what the families want. Turkeys this year, thriving through a favorable summer and fall and with ample feed, are at their finest right now. Mr. Rudd declared. And with modern processing proc-essing the Utah family can have the best of birds for their Thanksgiving Thanks-giving repast. "The housewife who wants the most for her money will buy a big torn," said Mr. Rudd, "because these huskies can be purchased several cents cheaper than the hens, and in the end, the family gets much more meat for its money." Utah ranchers expect to grow about 20,000,000 lbs. of turkey this year, with most of the birds being shipped to middlewestern and eastern states. Much of the Pacific Paci-fic coast will be serviced during the next week, Mr. Rudd reported. As to what the family will pay for their birds, turkey growers were reluctant to say, except to predict that the prices will not be very far from the 1916 quotations, quota-tions, which were 59c for hens and 49c for toms just before last j year's Thanksgiving. |