Show turkey industry holds center of stage this week turkey raising turkey dressing turkey shipping and probable turkey prices for the christmas I 1 holiday are the animated topics of conversation in monticello and vicinity this week and the royal birds have furnished jobs for approximately I 1 pickers As they I 1 are dressed they are packed into crates and shipped by truck to I 1 vari various ous points I 1 salt lake getting the greater part of the shipments A total of approximately birds will be dispatched from the monticello section by the end of the present week owing to the fact thattie that the birds were not in good marketable condition prior to thanksgiving only a few were picked for the market at that time but we understand that they are now in prime condition and should bring near top prices on the market which is in fair shape according to some of the growers monticello has four fairly heavy turkey farms they are operated by the following peter jones who is shipping approximately 2500 birds julius bailey who raised approximately the iame same number D B perkins who reports a yield of around 1700 and bert adams with from 1200 to 1500 raising of turkeys in this county was started some 15 or 20 years ago and for the past ten years yields have approximated those of the present year and the business s has become an important economic asset to our section of the state |