Turkey Still Receives Top Billing For Holidays
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tranced by the wild turkey that he
recommended its adoption as the
national symbol over the bald
eagle, calling the turkey a true
native of America.
His proposal didn’t pass. The
visage of the wild turkey is not
found on our currency, stamps or
documents. But there is one time of
year when the turkey again
receives top billing.
A Tradition
What would the traditional
Thanksgiving meal be without the
pleasing aroma of baking turkey?
And if we missed turkey at
Thanksgiving we’ll certainly have
turkey for Christmas. How would
we enjoy cranberries? What would
we stuff with bread crumbs?
Today turkeys are big business
for farmers. One poultry farm
owned and operated by John
Sensenig, raises turkeys for sale in
supermarkets throughout the area.
The turkeys raised at the Sen
senig farm are a far cry from the
wild turkeys served at the first
Thanksgiving meal.
They are brought to the farm
when they are one day old. Their
food, water, and environment are
carefully monitored to insure
proper growth and a pleasing
taste.
According to Mervin Zim
merman, my guide through the
Sensenig farm, it takes just 16
weeks to get the turkey from the
egg to the market.
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young turkeys are kept in a
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brooding house which is a constant
83 degrees. Brooders, big electric
lights, provide heat to the building
and to the chicks as they mature.
When the turkeys have matured
sufficiently to be taken from the
heated brooder, they are then
moved to large holding barns.
Six thousand large pink and
white birds greeted us as the big
sliding doors of their house were
opened.
HERSHBY - The Pennsylvania
Farmers’ Association (PFA)
today re-eleeted its president to a
third two-year term and adopted
policies on top farm concerns.
Vegetable and grain farmer
Keith W. Eckel of R.DJI, Clarks
Summit, Lackawanna County was
re-elected president of the
statewide, voluntary farm
organization which represents
23,361 farm families. Members of
PFA’s state Board of Directors
were also elected. The elections
and policy recommendations were
made during PFA’s 36th Annual
Meeting taking'place Nov. 17-19, at
the Hershey Lodge and Convention
Center.
Voting delegates adopted policy
recommending that the mandatory
$1 per head national beef
promotion checkoff be collected
only when the animal is sold for
slaughter instead of every time the
animal is sold. On another issue,
delegates recommended that PFA
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There were bird" as far as the farm will supply 3-4 thousand more
eye could see, making a gobbling for consumer consumption,
noise which, when magnified by Healthy Gamble
6,000, was quite a ruckus. The Sensenig farm is just one of
Where They Go the many poultry farms in Lan-
Zimmerman explained that this caster fanning territory who
is the busiest time of the year for produce turkeys. Farmers
the poultry farm. He noted that the throughout the nation are
Sensenig farm alone would supply 'capitalizing on the health era
up to 6,000 birds to stores in the phasis put on lean meat provided
area for the Thanksgiving season, by the turkey.
As Christmas approaches, the The Pennsylvania Poultry
Eckel Re-elected PFA President
oppose the use of bovine growth
hormone until consumer reaction
to milk produced using the growth
hormone is studied.
Delegates also addressed the
issue of insurance liability,
adopting policy recommending
that the state Insurance Com
mission implement measures to
protect policyholders from abrupt
and unjustified policy can
cellations. Delegates also
recommended enactment of tort
reform legislation to limit pain and
suffering awards to $300,000 and
holding lawyer’s contingency fees
to 20%. In addition, delegates
recommended that individuals be
prohibited from suing for injury
suffered on land without the land
owner’s permission.
Delegates elected five new
members to the PFA Board of
Directors. Newly elected are John
Shafer of Tamaqua representing
Schuylkill/Carbon, Columbia and
Luzerne counties; Fred Slezak of
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Council expects that the January-
March production of turkeys in
Pennsylvania could well exceed
production quotas set during the
same quarter of 1966.
Such a lot of to-do over a bird
that is considered a not-too-smart
cousin of our own wild turkey.
Whenever you sit down to your
turkey dinner this Thanksgiving, it
would be wise to offer thanks for
this lowly bird who provides us
with such a warm family tradition.
'Erie and Warren counties: and R.
Edwin Nehrig of Homer City
representing Gearfield, Indiana
and Cambria counties.
Delegates also filled two
unexpired terms. Richard
Pallman of Clarks Summit
representing Susquehanna,
Wayne, Wyoming and
Lackawanna counties; and Mrs.
Helen Jackson of New Galilee
representing Butler,
Beaver/Lawrence and Mercer
counties. Mrs. Nyna Lucas of
Bellefonte was appointed to the
PFA Board as the State Women’s'
Committee chairman.