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WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY     (Washington County, Utah)

BARLOCKER FARMS INC.

BARLOCKER HATCHERY CO.   and   BILL'S BEST INC.

Enterprise and St. George, Utah

LOCATION

Enterprise, Utah
Telephone 2111                       in the 1958 telephone book     (Barlocker Farms)
Telephone 2111                       in the 1961 telephone book     (Barlocker Farms)

Hatchery
46 North 900 East
St. George, Utah
Telephone 675                         in the 1954 telephone book     (Barlocker Farms Hatchery)
Telephone ORchard 3-2291     in the 1958 telephone book     (Barlocker Farms Hatchery)
Telephone ORchard 3-2291     in the 1961 telephone book     (Barlocker Farms Inc Hatchery)

Processing Plant
246 North 1070 East
St. George, Utah
Telephone ORchard 3-2752     in the 1958 telephone book     (Barlocker Processing Plant)
Telephone ORchard 3-3990     in the 1961 telephone book     (Barlocker Farms Inc Processing Plant)


HISTORY

Was the world's largest producer of hy-brid turkeys with a annual production of over 10 million.


PHOTOS

Barlocker Farms Processing Plant
Bill's Best Processing Plant


REFERENCES

Rise and Fall of the Turkey Empire
Utah History to Go article by W. Paul Reeve, August 1996

Lions Twenty-seventh Dixie Roundup August 31, September 1,2, 1961 St. George Utah
See the 13th page on the Dixie Roundup booklet