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Show Improvement In Sanpete Poultrymen of Sanpete county are lauded for the great strides in production made so far this year despite depression and low prices, in a statement issued recently by management of the Utah Poultry Producers' Cooperative association. The statement follows completion of an investigation into present conditions of the industry, and its position relative to other businesses, busi-nesses, agricultural and industrial. Sanpete county poultry producers produc-ers and those in Utah generally are at least as weU off as persona in other lines of endeavor. Perhaps Per-haps in most ways they are less seriously affected by the worldwide world-wide slump than most groups, the study shows. Records of egg grading plants operated in the county by the association as-sociation for its members, indicate that for a representative week, that of May 9th, for instance, production pro-duction in this county has increased increas-ed 169 per cent over that lor the corresponding week last year. The plant reporting os located at Manti. During the week mentioned the county's commercial egg production produc-tion was 1,052 cases, an increase of 661 cases over the 391 cases produced pro-duced this same pereiod last year. The total for this county from January 1, 1931, through the week mentioned is 21,259 cases. Commercial Com-mercial production for all counties so far this year is 488,887 cases compared with 315,766 last year at this time. The increase is 173.-121 173.-121 cases or 55 per cent, showing that the production in the entire state has had a tremendous growth in face of adverse conditions. Reviewing this great Increase in production, the association management man-agement praises producers of Sanpete San-pete county and of the state generally gen-erally for standing "by their guns" during these trying times. President Presi-dent Joseph Anderson and Clyde C. Edmonds, general manager, of the organization, extend personal commendation for the producers' loyalty and confidence. Federal figures compiled by U. S. bureau of crop estimates on the average prices received by Utah producers for various commercial crops on May 15, 1931, as compared with the same day in previous yeai3 show that egg and poultry price-; to the farmer are less affected than those of about any othr commodity. commod-ity. Members of the poultry association as-sociation are in a better position still, since epg and poultry prices paid them are considerably above the average even in Utah. Assuming that the present depression de-pression began with the stock mar- I (Continued on last page) Improvement in Sanpete (continued from first page) ket crash in November, 1929, accurate ac-curate figures are available lor periods before the deflation set in as well as now. Taking May 15, 1929, as "before the depression' and the latest now available, May 15, 1931, average prices to producers produc-ers have decreased as follows: eggs, 25 per cent; potatoes, 25 per cent; chickens, 28 per cent; alfalfa hay, 32 per cent; wheat, 36 per cent; beef cattle, 38 per cent; butter, 41 per cent; sheep, 32 per cent; lambs, 43 pr cent; wool, 54 per cent. Average prices to farmers on May 15 this year follow, with those for two years ago in parenthesis: eggs, 5 cents per dozen, (20); chickens, 13 cents per pound, (18); wheat, 63 cents per bushel, (98); alfalfa hay, $10 per ton, (14.50) ; potatoes, 45 cents per bushel, (60); beef, $5.60 per 100 pounds, (9.00); sheep, $5 per 100 pounds, (8.50); lambs, $6.90 per 100 pounds, (12.10); wool, 14 cents per pound, (30); butter, 26 cents per pound, (44). Prices on industrial and manufactured manu-factured goods as a whole have dropped off from 35 to 50 per cent. In view of the findings of this survey the poultry association management believes that the poultry poul-try industry is at least as gnod as any other to be engaged ir |