{"id":1947,"date":"2022-11-24T16:58:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T16:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/love.mykansaslibrary.org\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2022-11-24T17:01:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T17:01:32","slug":"kinsley-public-library-blog-tells-turkey-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/love.mykansaslibrary.org\/index.php\/2022\/11\/24\/kinsley-public-library-blog-tells-turkey-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"Kinsley Public Library Blog Tells Turkey Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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November 23, 2022<\/em> \u2013 \u201cFrom the Kinsley Library Archives\u201d<\/a> is a treat for anyone who loves Kinsley or Kansas history. Recent blog posts have local students investigating an auto theft ring from 1923 and much more. The photos and stories are truly marvelous.<\/p>

Below is a segment of a blog post called \u201cTurkey Tales\u201d from November 2021.<\/p>

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Raising turkeys during World War II not only offered a financial incentive, but also a patriotic one in support of the \u201cFood for Freedom\u201d campaign (picture above). In 1941, the co-op, or turkey pool as it was sometimes called, became the Arkansas Valley Turkey Co-op and it had 430 members.<\/p>

The co-op bought the building at 319 E. Sixth St. and installed a new scalding machine and automatic picker.\u00a0 Charles Schmitt described the picker as having \u201clittle rubber fingers on it \u2013 little knobs on it.\u00a0 We\u2019d just hold the turkey up, and it would pull the feathers right off.\u00a0 Maybe the wings or the tail you had to pull out, but they looked pretty nice when we boxed them up and loaded them in the freight car.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cOnce in a while,\u201d he continued, \u201cwhen the steam engines came in, they\u2019d bump the car and it would knock (the boxes) over, and we was asked to go back out for time-and-a-half (pay) and a case of beer!\u00a0 Us boys would just throw them clear back up there.\u00a0 We made a lot of fun out of it.\u201d<\/p>

Glen Bidleman reported in a magazine article that in 1941 they sold more than 400,000 pounds of dressed turkeys and expected to double that in 1942.\u00a0 Many people, including teenagers, worked for two weeks in November and again in December.\u00a0<\/p>

Fred Strate was the Secretary\/Treasurer of the turkey co-op.\u00a0 In 1943, he and his wife Gladys earned more than $1300 for the turkeys that their children Delphi, Lionel, Roma and Kay raised.<\/p>

I\u2019m not sure when the turkey cooperative ended, but they did sell the building in April, 1952.\u00a0 Perhaps the fall of 1951 was the last year, but If anyone can pin point their last season, the library would like to know so can be added to the archive.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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