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McKay's Open Pantry Delicatessen
Broasted Chicken - by the bucket or the piece • Party trays made to order • Fresh
home-made pizza • Fresh bagels and pocket bread • San Francisco style sour dough
bread • 31 varieties Imported and Domestic cheese • 35 varieties lunch meat and
sausages • Full line salad bar • Hot food to go • Fresh sandwiches made daily
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Turkeys change feathers
from colorful to tasteful
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP)
The turkeys that will grace
Thursday's Thanksgiving tables
are birds of a different feather
from the ones the Pilgrims
stalked in the forests
The colorful birds that come
to mind are virtually gone from
domestic production and re
placed by a species with snow
white feathers
The dark feathers of the old
fashioned birds also caused a
dark pigment in the skin The
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dark color didn't appeal to many
consumers so scientists bred
the color out of the bird
Commercial turkey produc
tion in the United States dates
back to the 1920s, when
domestic turkeys were tew and
expensive These early birds
were bred with an eye toward
perfect plumage rather than the
quality of their meat
By the end of the 1930s, the
emphasis shifted from colorful
feathers to taste
In the 1940s, USDA re
searchers produced the "Belts
ville White,” a broadbreasted
smaller bird, just right for the
family table Other similar
strains were developed, and,
with advances in disease con
trol and production methods,
the turkey industry entered the
modern age
Today, individual growers
produce turkeys by the thou
sands The snow-white birds are
scientifically nurtured in preci
sely controlled environments
From artificial incubation to
the truck trip to the processing
plant, they are secluded from
the influences of the outside
world.
Last year, North Carolina
became the largest turkey
producing state, surpassing the
long-time No 1 producer,
Minnesota
California is third, followed by
Arkansas and Missouri These
five states produce more than
two-thirds of ail U S turkeys
Producers here in
Pennsylvania raised 5 6 million
turkeys last year and represent
ed about three percent of the
total number raised of 168 mil
lion head, which was a record
number of birds
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