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Show 45 Carloads of Turkeys Sold For Christmas ; Approximately 45 carloads or : 900.000 pounds of quality turkey ) meat was exported from Utah 1 and Idaho for the Christmas trade on both sea coasts, states a report released today by Herbert Beyers, manager of the Northwestern Tur-' Tur-' key Growers' Association. The huge pool from the two l sister states comprised nearly half of the total shipments handled by the northwest organization from eight states. The regional pool, the report shows, was 100 carloads car-loads or 2,000,000 pounds of holiday holi-day birds." Besides the export volume Utah and Idaho produced about 200,000 pounds of . commercial turkeys for domestic consumption at Christmas. Christ-mas. These birds were sold through local channels within the states' borders. Utah's 1 9 3 2 Christmas shipments ship-ments made up 20 carloads or ' 400,000 pounds of turkey meat, swelling the total exports for the year to 45 carloads or 900.000 pounds. The Beehive state's Thanksgiving pool filled 25 cars with half a million pounds oi "gobbleers." I Exports from Idaho at Christ-; Christ-; mas totaled 500,000 pounds, re-quiring re-quiring 25 freight cars, compared with 230,000 pounds and 12 cars at Thanksgiving, making the aggregate ag-gregate for the year about 730,000 pounds. Both the Beehive and . : Gem states will have substantial-shipments substantial-shipments in the January-February "cleanup" pool, though this pool will be relatively light in comparison with those at Thanksgiving Thanks-giving and Christmas, it is expected. expect-ed. Utah-Idaho commercial Christ-. Christ-. mas turkeys this year were of the best quality in the history of the two states. It is estimated that . - the laf.fl rrrtns of hnth strirv; crrn1- ed over 90 per cent prime No. 1.. Exports made: by the northwest association this year now aggregate aggre-gate 3,125,000 pounds or 155 carloads. car-loads. This huge volume originated in Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Wyo-ming, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Ore-gon, and Nevada and was marketed market-ed in the New York and Los Angeles An-geles metropolitan areas. The Utah birds came to tht Northwestern association througn the Utah Poultry Producers' Cooperative Coop-erative Association, while the Gem state fowls were gathered by the Idaho Egg Producers' Association, Mr.. Beyers explains. |