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Show No More Turkey. Left-overs; Smaller Birds On The Way Experts of the University of Nebraska offered sympathy to the people who ate turkey hash after the Thanksgiving weekend, and said they were doing something some-thing about the situation. They are breeding an "apartment "apart-ment size" turkey. It will solve the hash problem, said Prof. F. E. Mussehl, head of the university's poultry department, depart-ment, because the turkey the researchers re-searchers hope to produce will be small enough for a small family fam-ily to finish off in one day. Most turkeys today weigh between be-tween 15 and 30 pounds, Mussehl Mus-sehl said. That may have been the right size when families were larger, but now the average American family is about three persons and there is too much bird left over. ' Mussehl and his colleagues i hope to develop a turkey that weighs about 10 pounds. By combining com-bining the desired features of two types of birds broad-breasted broad-breasted bronze and "Beltsville White" they are headed in the right direction, he said. The 10-pound bird will not start any arguments among the producers, either, Mussehl said. The bigger birds still will have a place in supplying large families, fam-ilies, hotels, restaurants, and institutions. |