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Show FARMERS MAY HAVE CITY HEADQUARTERS Week of Meetings Held by Bureau Regarded as Entirely En-tirely Successful. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN, Dee. 4. Tho opening of a .farm office in this city, a movement to bring about tho inauguration of a state department of agriculture and many other progressive measures of benefit to the farmer, were urged by speakers who appeared at the final sessions of the first annual Weber county farm institute insti-tute in this city today. The institute, which was held under auspices of the "Weber county farm bureau, was concluded con-cluded with three sessions in the tabernacle taber-nacle after successful sessions throughout through-out the week. The first annual election of officers of the bureau was held this morning and resulted in 'the election of D. D. McKay of Huntsville, president, and J. li. Bens of Hooper, vice president. Other officers of the organization will be elected by the board of directors. While all of the meetings were well attended, at-tended, the attendance was not as large as anticipated by the bureau officers. This was largely due, they said, to unfavorable un-favorable weather. Dr. R. J. Evans of the Utah Agricultural Agricul-tural college, who recently investigated farm organizations in the easu. was the principal speaker at the morning meeting. meet-ing. It was he who urged the bureau to open offices in this city, where the president and secretary could meet the farmers and others who might have business busi-ness with the organization. He also urged a membership fee of not less than Si per year. Due to another engagement. Dr. J. A. Widtsoe. president ot the Utah Agricultural Ag-ricultural college, found it impossible to -speak at the afternoon meeting in this city. The speakers were Dr. E. G. Gowans, state superintendent of public pub-lic instruction; Attorney Joseph Chez, state senator from Weber county: Dr. "E. D. Ball, director of the experiment station at the Agricultural college. In discussing the relationship between be-tween rural school and country home, Dr. Gowans declared that many statements state-ments concerning the amount of all taxes devoted to educational lines in Utah arc erroneous. The assertion that SS per cent of all taxes collected in the state is expended for education, the speaker said, is untrue. About this percentage per-centage of the state tax is expended for schools, paid Dr. Gowans. but from his investigations in Salt Take county he found that not more than 45 per cent of the total tax collected went to education. Senator Cher, expressed his pleasure over tbe recent action of local farmers farm-ers in forming the Weber county farm bureau. With respect to what this organization or-ganization will mean in connection "with the state legislature. Mr. ;fapz declared that the farmers had done the thing which the big industrial interests found to be to their advantage years ago. He said he knew from personal experience, having encountered the organizations of i he breweries, railroads, mines and other big business lines during the last esion of the legislative bo'ly. Tbereare many laws on the statute books which would not bp there if the farmer? were as well organized as other industrial interests. Mr. Chez declared. Organization, he said, would also enact sfimr laws that are justly favorable to tbe farmer. After urging every farmer of the county to become a member of the bureau, the state nnator said the next important move should be the establishment es-tablishment of a state department of as-ri.-ultnrp if. for no ol her purpose, to improve market conditions. Dr.'Bfill furnished a brief sketch of the history of progress and education troni the earliest period of which tbre ip authentic record. For fifteen hundred hun-dred vears during tb.p ar,v history of the world there was no progress whatever, what-ever, be paid, because the people were governed under a theari-hy, government under the immediate direction o;' divine existence. When government of the people themselves began then progress resulted, the speaker declared. At the concluding meeting this evening even-ing the speakers were. Attorney Frank B. Stephens of Salt Lake, wlio discussed dis-cussed rural and farm organizations, and Dr. E. G. Peterson, director of extension ex-tension work for the Agricultrural college. |