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too, so this is going to make us end up with more pounds this year.
It seems that prices at Thanksgiving will probably be & little stronger than at Christmas., So, 'll you have birds with finish, the ’Thanksgiving market looks better pricewise. "
For the nation, heavy breed turkeys raised this year, based on placements, are running 7 percent above last year for December. But in Virginia the number of belies wiM be 6 percent less than a year, ago. The number of light breeds raided for the nation and Virginia as well, is running higher this yeai4 19-percent more for Virginia and _ 22 percent more for the nation. But the overall picture still gives us more heavies and light breeds than last year.
Prices on turkeys in the Shemut-. doah Valley for die Beltsville turkeys were 25-% cents to 26 cents a pound.
In Iowa the heavy type toms , were 20 to 20% cents, and die hens were 24 to 24% cents a pound.
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