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Show Turkey Pool Is Sent To The Eastern Market The Utah Thanksgiving turkey pool, produced by some 2,000 groiv- " ers, will this year total 2a carloads, or 625,000 pounds, officials of the Utah Poultry Producers Cooperative Association announced recently. This is a decrease of nearly 25 pei cent from the Thanksgiving production pro-duction last year. The Thanksgiving pool of the Northwestern TuiKey Growers As sociation, of which Utah is a unit, will aggregate 65 carloads or about 1,625,000 pounds' of choice "gobbler" i meat. The large pool embraces about 80 per cent of the Thanksgiving Thanks-giving production of Idaho, Colorado, Colo-rado, . Washington, Nevada and Montana besides Utah. This pool is nearly 35 per cent less than last year, but it is expected at least part of the decrease will be made up by the Christmas production. Clyde C. Edmonds, general manager man-ager of both the Utah poultry association as-sociation and the northwestern turkey tur-key organization, announced several sever-al days ago that the offer for the northwestern pool, including Utah's birds, had not yet been accepted since the pool officials are convinced convinc-ed that the fowls are worth two or three cents per pound more than the trade seemed willing to pay at this time. Mr. Edmonds is now in the east attempting to secure a better price for the Nortnwestern turkeys. In seeking a better price, the association associa-tion executive is not overlooking the fact that industrial conditions this year are not as good as they could be and also that the purchasing power of the consumers is below normal. "We are just looking for a fair and reasonable price, taking all these factors into consideration, and also the cost of production," Mr. Edmonds said. Despite the depressed condition, there is nothing in the market, as reported by agents for the northwest north-west organization, that would justi. fy a price of less than 30 cents per pound gross. The only thing that now stands in the way of Utah and other northwestern farmers receiving receiv-ing such a price, is that one or two small independent pools have disposed dis-posed of their birds for- three or four cents less than mis figure. Buyers find the weakest competing pools and then attempt to force the general price down to this level. lev-el. This very thing happened last Christmas when a small pool or two broke the ice oy selling for a very low price, after a fair price for all coiTeerned had practically been agreed upon. The result was that over 200 cars of turkeys from this section sold at a figure several cents per pound below a Just price, and the produc-, produc-, ers lost $150,000 that they should have secured. It is this haphazard and careless marketing that tne northwest pool was organized to prevent, by replacing re-placing it with orderly and scientific scien-tific selling. |