Show successful convention of poultry I 1 producers held in salt lake city 41 coming coining as a fitting climax to ten tell years of steady development the greatest convention in the utah poultry producers Coo cooperative associations history was held last week in salt lake from tile thai opening address to the adjournment two laya days later the record crowd of 1600 utah and southern sovi thern idaho poultry inen men present at the sessions exhibited a spirit of optimism that speaks well for the Indu future growth and development Tur kemen members of the utah turkey growers association joined the poultry group in con bention and helped celebrate tile th tenth anniversary of tho the latter or birth january 17 1923 and a a part of this co culebra lebra tion the state execute executive ive and nearly a dozen other convention speakers 0 paid high tribute to the role the poultry industry and its association have played in tho the bull building ding of economic super ture business features of the con bention included the lie election of officers by both associations adoption of resolutions and the passage of an amendment to tho the poultry association a articles of in corporation john if kemp hemp of logan was named president of tho the utah poultry association succeeding joseph anderson And oraon who remains as a in mem deml her ber of the board of directors john A johnston of provo was chosen first vice president jesse W hoopes of brigham city second vice president and william AL A 1 ot of preston idaho third vice president clyde C edmonds edmonda of salt lake city was waa elected reelected re secretary treasurer and harry 4 strong assistant new directors are mr J loa decker of sandy and I 1 B J arekson als ekahn of payson the turkey growers elected joseph 11 II thompson of ephraim Ephr alm president succeeding A demarr dudley vernal and orvil scott K jensen of mantl was waa reflected reelected secretary treasurer resolutions adopted at the joint the federal farm board seek ad just menta of railroad freight rates commensurate with farm crop and egg prices and endorse efforts of the utah state farm F arm bureau to equalize and lower taxes tile tho amendment to the corporate COr 0 articles forever blocks tile the possibilities bili ties of n relative small group obtaining voting control of the as so clation the changes contemplate the issuance of one share of common stock carrying one vote tote to each bona tide fide members pro ducer define who la Is a member and prohibit voting by proxy furthermore tho the amendment sub the distribution of non vot ing finance stock called certificates tift of interest for the special stock now being issued to member producers in return tor for the one cent a dozen scale off on eggs made by the association for financing flit anc purposes mr edmonds in giving the annual financial report showed that tho the association lip in the beza best financial a condition ever avor enjoyed anjo the ratio of cf assets to liabilities Is better than four to one ho he said listing assets at liabilities bili ties at mr andorson Andr irson in giving the presidents annual report recalled that eggs wore were selling belling at about 8 cents cent per del dozen in 1922 before tho the association was formed but in the first year of its operation elation Op the price was wag raised to 24 cents the associations egg sales bales the first year aggregated cases while in 1932 they were nearly ases ages appeals to the men to remain loyal to their cooperative association tor for their own benefit and that of the state were mado made by the governor henry 11 blood E H 0 howard president of walker bank and trust company benjamin brown new york market al ad visor vigor and sales representative of the northwest turkey growers asso association dation and harold J lewis provo bench manager mr drown also alao warned poultry ry mon men to desis deals from washing eggs and fregd a system of stamping each egg so that it will retain its identity from the producer to the housewife J M macfarlane a director of the utah state farm bureau urged all co operatives to work together in solvin gd common problems an J L weidman president of 0 the tremonton Tre monton poultry association ex the functions of tho the 40 local groups john 11 wootton a prominent american fork poultry producer made a powerful plea for continued cooperation and support of the association and showed what the association had meant to tho the producer to the industry and to the stafe herbert boyers Ile yern gen oral eral manager of the northwestern dared that the northwest orgal organization liz must effect reductions in transportation casts it they are to continue to operate at low costs and harden dennion Benn lon state agricultural commissioner proffered the aid of hk his department in curbing poultry and turkey diseases dr ricard R lyman of the c OUCH of twelve apostles of the L D S church and a member asserted that the only cure for the economic depression la Is to get purchasing power in the hands of consumers mr dudley sp spoke oke on the turkey outlook |