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Show Thanksgiving Turkeys Show Fine Qualities The 1032 Thanksgiving turkey exports from the sister states of Utah and Idaho totaled about 37 carloads or nearly 750,000 pounds an Increase of more than a third over Thanksgiving shipments last year according to an official report by officers of the Northwestern Turkey Growers' Association and of the two state associations. The choice "gobblers" from the Gem and Beehive states again this I year were sent from 600 to 2,000 miles to grace the festive boards of cities on both sea coasts on this day of thanks. The "holiday birds' from these two states were served this season in New York City, Newark, Ne-wark, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Jersey City Long Island, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Buffalo, Pittsburg, Pitts-burg, and the Los Angeles metropolitan metro-politan area. Never before in the history of commercial turkey raising in this section has the quality of. the Thanksgiving fowls been so fine, observers announce. The bulk of the exports from Utah and Idaho this year as during the past tvo seasons were marketed through the modern facilities of the Northwestern North-western Turkey Growers' Association, Associa-tion, as were the commercial crops of Oregon, Nevada, C o 1 o r a do, Washington, Montana and Wyoming. Wyo-ming. The 1932 Thanksgiving crop from the eight states embraced by the Northwest organization aggregated aggre-gated approximately 55 carloads or 1,125,000 pounds. This is compared with 35 carloads or 790,000 pounds at this time last year, making the increase about 4C per cent, states Herbert Beyers of Salt Lake, general gen-eral manager of the Northwest Association. As-sociation. Prices -on the eastern markets, where some 60 per cent of the birds were sold, should average 23 to 24 cents per pound wholesale on prime No. 1 birds for most of the trading, but the market broke somewhat a few days before Thanksgiving, forcing the average price a bit lower, the manager reports. re-ports. Utah's share of the shipments made by the Northwest association at Thanksgiving was 25 carloads or 501,000 pounds of turkey this year compared with 15 carloads or some 350,000 pounds a year ago. according to Charles P. Rudd. poultry department manager of the Utah Poultry Producers' Cooperative Co-operative Association. In addition the Beehive state raised enough turkeys this year- to meet the local demands, which in the principal cities alone required over 100,000 pounds of "gobbler" meat, Mr. Rudd explains. Idaho this year, according to the records of Earl H. Brockman of Caldwell, manager of the Idaho Egg Producers' Association, supplied sup-plied her domestic market and added 12 carloads or 230.000 pounds to the Northwest pool. Last Thanksgiving the Gem state shipped ship-ped about seven cars or 140.000 pounds through the regional organization. or-ganization. The huge increase in Thanksgiving Thanks-giving turkey shipments from the Northwest states this season indicates in-dicates that the Christmas movement move-ment from this region may be somewhat lighter, association officials of-ficials believe. This and other favorable fa-vorable conditions point to a relatively rela-tively good yuletide market. Cold storage holdings, for in stance, are the lowest since 1921, and the importations from the Argentine and other foreign countries coun-tries are so small that they are almost al-most negligible. On November 1, 1932, storage holdings were reported report-ed at 1,024,000 pounds, compared with 2,303,0H0 on this date in 193!, and 3,542,000 pounds for the five-year five-year average. The reduction is thus 55 per cent from last year and 71 per cent under the five-year five-year average. |