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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.
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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.
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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
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OPEN UNTIL 8:00 P. M. DAILY
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TURKALINA FARMS, INC.
on your choice of Raeford for the location of your fine new plant. This is
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another indication of the continuing business growth of the town and
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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
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The Bank Of Raeford
^ “^feinber Fi^eraLDepisit“in8»iiifa5iee-GGppG?ation—
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We are proud to have had a part in Turkaliua’sNew Plant in furnishing Refrigeration and Ice Making EquipmesL
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Onr machinery will enahle them to Quick Freeze, Process and have Zero storage of the Turkeys.
INDUSTRIAL REFRIGERATION
Ammonia Type Refrigeration
Atlanta,Ga.