Richfield Reaper | 1931-11-19 | Page 1 | Turkey Shipments for Thanksgiving Market Complete

turkey shipments for thanksgiving market complete one and one half carloads of turkeys have been shipped this year for the thanksgiving market by the local plant of the utah poultry producers cooperative association according to the manager leland chidester the last carload was completed thursday at ephraim birds for the shipments have been gathered from the towns con tributary to marys vale richfield Eich field gunnison and ephraim due to the unusually warm weather this fall the majority of turkeys in this section were not ready for the thanksgiving market but with the colder weather setting in the poultry association plans to make a larger shipment of birds for christmas the thanksgiving shipment fell somewhat below that of last year the birds will be marketed through the northwestern turkey tu akey grow growers rs association A def definite bite price for the turkeys has not yet been announced