'4' TBVBSDA% OCTOBEB 30, 1052^ Operation* At Turkalina Plant ^ Smooth And Rapid The new Turkalina plant on the Fayetteville highway is one o£ the most efficient of its tjrpe in North Carolina and is also the newest one. Their employees number close to 100 and each is drilled and is proficient in one operation so that the entire assembly line processing runs smoothly and quickly. The operation is set up so that from 8 to 10 birds per minute are processed. This be gins as the turkeys are first put on the hooks and killed til the time they are packed in boxes for the storage rooms. The turkeys Me unloaded from the trucks at the rear and put directly bn the conveyor hooks which carry them to the man who kills them quickly and painless ly with an electric knife. They are stunned by the knife and their throat is cut so they may bleed freely. They next enter a vat of boiling water which tpnds to loosen the feathers from‘the body, next they go Jp a defeathering machine whose whirling rubber fingers strip the majority of the feathers from the birds body. Several defeathering machines are stationed along the line inier- mingled with women wiio serve to remove all the remaining fea thers. The fowl is^thep tvumed up side down prepiuratory to more de feathering machhies. Now the birds move into the main part of the plant where they are run through a gas burner whicn singes all the hairs and small minute pin feathers. The birds are at this point switched to another conveyor line where the head and feet ar4 re moved and the drawing of the bird begins. A government inspec tor is stationed at this point where he quickly and efficiently exa mines each fowl for disease or other disqualifying factors. After the intestines are removed and the birds are washed thorouhgly in side they are run through abin of hot steaming water. They are then placed in hand- trucks and covered by layers of ice for a few hours. This is dime in order that the body heat of the birds is completely removed. After a few hours in {he iced trucks they are placed on a conveyor to drain and then their wings and short thighs are removed and placed inside the fowl. They are now placed in cellophane bags, weighed, marked and packed in a box. The boxes contain from five to twelve birds depending upon the type and size of the birds. They are then removed to the first freezing room and left for a .minimum of 18 hours at a tem!>- erature of 35 degrees below zero. Then they are placed in one of the remaining two freezing rooms, temperature 0 degrees, until they are sold and .removed'. Turkalina is so well planned that they have their 6vm ice making equipment which is cap able of producing 28 tons each day. Turkeys Head November List Of Plentiful Foods Abundant supplies of turkeys will be on hand for. November food -maBrkets, the local, coimty agent for the State College Ex tension Service, said this week. This year’s record-breaking crop of turkeys gives them a top spot on the U. S. Department of Agriculture plentiful foods list for November, he explained. Other foods on the November 4)lentiful foods list are raisins, ,fro- zen fish, canned tuna, table grapes, figs, carrots, dry baby lima beans, tree nuts, salad oils, vegetable shortening and^ table fats, nonfat dry milk, cottage cheese, butte,•- 'milk, and honey. He said that raisin production this year is expected to exceed 290,000 tons, compared with 242,- 000 tons last season, and a 5-year average production of 232,000 tons. THE NEWS-JOUBNAL California, dilef source of fresh table grapes in November, is harvesting a crop about a fourth larger than average. The^^atate also has the largest canm crop since the war years, the county agent said. The aggregate production of tree nuts is larger than the 1941-50 average, though smaller than last year. Georgia, which grows most of the crop of improved varieties of pecans, has an estimated crop of 30,504,000 poimds, compared to 42,300,000 pounds last year, and an average of 25,008,000 pounds. 0 IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE Farmers To Consider ’53 Economic Outlook Teams of specialists from State College will meet with farmers, home'agents and coimty agents in some 95 counties next month to consider the economic outlook for 1953, Dorris D. Brown, farm man agement specialist for the State College Extension Service, and Miss Mamie Whisnant, home man agement extension specialist, has announced. The outlook meeting will be held in Hoke County on Novem ber 14 at 2:00 p. m. in the Coun ty Office Building, according to John Potter, county agent for the State College Extension Service. Specials here for the meeting will be John Curtis and Charles Wil liams. The meetings, most of whidi start at 10 a. m. and 2 p. m. each week day from November 5 through Novembei^ 21, are being conducted to provide farm fami lies with “an increased amount of timely economic information,” Mr. Potter said. Five teams of State College ex tension specialists will cover the State, devoting two hours to each meeting. The programs will con sider foiur topics; Factors that influence future prices; Ukely eonuaodity prkeg Im 1953; the ootloek for 'lUiMi—i|; and applicatkiB of the oodoofc the farm and home baaineai. Mb Potter pointed out that fho meat ings are beii^ hold now to noM* economic infornurtion availallg before fanners plans thefar ISMl programs. The ooUoofc meetteca will supplement rather than tafee the place of farm managemcat schools held in many counties each year. A 1,000 pound horse or mule at hard work should have 10 pounds of good quality hay and 12% pounds of grain per day. ' , I WELCOME to the COLD WEATHER’S COMING And We’ve Got HEATERS ^ OF ALL KINDS (And We Install Any We 5ell) • QUAKER OIL BURNING HEATERS • COLEMAN OIL BURNING HEATERS • ASHLEY WOOD BURNERS • TRASH BURNERS Also Plenty of Stove Pipe,'Fittings and Copper Tubing WRI6HT’S HARDWARE BELTON WRIGHTF • PHONE 6906 » OPEN UNTIL 8:00 P. M. DAILY n TURKALINA FARMS, INC. on your choice of Raeford for the location of your fine new plant. This is ! another indication of the continuing business growth of the town and t vicinity. Wl OFFER our service to all citizens of the conununity — all the service and considera tion of financial problems that any sound financial institution offers. CONE IN and dil^cuss it with us ■/ The Bank Of Raeford ^ “^feinber Fi^eraLDepisit“in8»iiifa5iee-GGppG?ation— Ai f ' / I 4 We are proud to have had a part in Turkaliua’sNew Plant in furnishing Refrigeration and Ice Making EquipmesL l . Onr machinery will enahle them to Quick Freeze, Process and have Zero storage of the Turkeys. INDUSTRIAL REFRIGERATION Ammonia Type Refrigeration Atlanta,Ga.