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Show Egg Business Is Profitable Over $78,000 in bonuses, representing repre-senting price premiums received in the sale of Utah's commercial egs in eastern markets during the half year ending April 1, wiil soon be distributed to the 5,000 membets of the Utah Poultry Producers Cooperative Coop-erative Association, it was announced announc-ed recently by Clyde C Kdmonds, general manager. .Individual poultrymen w:':1. participate par-ticipate in the bonuses in proportion propor-tion to their respective production of eggs during this period. Payments Pay-ments will be made in capital stock of the Association. Records show that the total premiums acruing from the mark eting of Utah eggs during 'he past six months are over 50 per cent lavger than those for any previous similar period. Last year the semi-annual bonus to members a-mounted a-mounted to about $50,000. The premiums received for Utah eggs are virtually the maginnl prices pri-ces which the superior quality of the local product is able to com-m: com-m: nd over and above the regular market price received by competing compet-ing growers in other states. These premiums, since the inception of the Utah association in 1923, have eliminated the necessity of levying an assessment on members or scaling scal-ing off a small portion of the market mark-et price of their eggs with vhich to provide captal for the development develop-ment of the state organization. Beter methods of grading and packing, a cleaner and more wholesome whole-some product, together with efficient effi-cient means of marketing, are cited as the principal reason why Utah eggs are not only superior in quality, qual-ity, but are also commanding a fitting fit-ting premium in the sale price. |