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Show UTAH PRODUCTS TO BE SHIPPED ON UPGRADES State Board of Agriculture Announces Employment of Expert on Grading and Packing; Plan State Brand "Utah producers of fruit and vegetables vege-tables will this year send out their - products under a Joint seal and cer- tlflcate of the United States and state. aid Heber J. Webb, state crop pests Inspector today. "The state board of agriculture," continued Mr. Webb, "has entered Into a cooperative agreement with the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Eco-nomics, United States department of agriculture, whereby joint federal and state Inspection service will be given 1 producers and shippers for all agrl- I atate. The bulk of Utah farm products will go out of the state this year prop erly graded and packed under the supervising su-pervising Inspection of a federal Inspector. In-spector. "The services of E. E. Conklln has been secured. He Is a graduate of Cornell university and has had six years experience In the United States department of agriculture connected with the bureau pf markets and standards. stand-ards. He Is at present with the Sandhill Sand-hill Fruit Growers' association of North Carolina directing the packing of Its crop of 2000 cars In accordance with United States grades. He will reach Utah . within a few days and take charge of the Inspection service. Crop Inspectors now In various counties of the state will labor under his supervision. supervi-sion. "For the first time In our history, Utah' will send out her apples, peaches, pears', potatoes, onions, etc., packed true to United States grades, branded as Utah products and finding Us place in the local and foreign markets. From now on Utah's excellent products will So out packed In new, bright containers, contain-ers, carrying with it a joint federal and atate certificate, with the United States rai upon the upper left hand corner and the state seal In the right hand corner, headed: United States department depart-ment of agriculture, and state of Utah, department of agriculture, farm products prod-ucts Inspection certificate, and It will te certified to aa to con 1 it ton of con talner, condition of pack, quality and condition of product, and as to grade, and this certificate becomes prima facle evidence In any court of the r United States as to the facts set forth on the certificate. "This season's united effort on the part of growers and shippers to not put out any product that does not come up to the requirement and to make the pack attractive and true will go far toward to-ward establishing United States grades and standards for Utah products and acquainting the grower with every requirement re-quirement connected therewith. It will make a good name for Utah-branded products and establish us In the markets mar-kets of the world." |