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Show FARM BUREAU IS BENEFIT TO AGRICULTUniSTS Organization Seeks Constructive Con-structive Co-operation of All Having to Do With Production of Food. DISTRICTS NEARLY ALL REPRESENTED Local Problems Taken Up and Tillers of Soil Assisted Assist-ed in Solving Difficulties Difficul-ties Encountered. No 11 1-1 ton that lias I iocji taken by the farmers of' this enmity in recent years means more to the agricultural interests of the community than the organization during 19 in of the Weber County Farm bureau,, according to those who have watched the work of the bureau since July. Although the. bureau has been in existence only five months, it is already represented in every district of the county with the exception of three. D. 11. McKay of Huntsville. leader in the movomont which gave the farmers their first accredited organization, is president of the bureau, .lames H. liens of Hooper is vice president, and W. N. Pettorson, superintendent of the Webor county public schools, is secretary and treasurer. Kvery dislriet, desiring to affiliate with tiie organization forms ft branch or district association with a full set of officers. This branch also elects oue of its members as a director in the central bureau. Kach association liolds a meeting at least, once a month, and the directors of the central bureau meet in Ogden regularly once each month. Special meetings are also held, as was the case when the bureau took up the matter of sugar beet contracts in December. Seek Co-operation. The general object of the Weber County Farm bureau is to bring together to-gether for eo-operatiou and mutual activity ac-tivity the farmers and others of allied industries who desire to investigate the fundamental problems of agriculture. An important feature of the bureau's operations is the close affiliation with the work of W. Preston Thomas, county agricultural agent. Mr. Thomas is om- ployed by Weber county and the United' States department of agriculture to assist as-sist the farmers in solving their agricultural agricul-tural problems. Although there were only three branch or district associations iii existence at the time the bureau was launched, its scope has now been extended until seventeen sev-enteen districts out of twenty are represented rep-resented in the central body. Sixteen of this number have wideawake associations. associa-tions. In addition to the district association asso-ciation representatives, several industrial indus-trial interests that are closely allied with the agricultural business have directors di-rectors in the central bureau. Roster of Officers. The complete list of directors, together to-gether with the district or company represented, rep-resented, is as follows: D. D. McKay, Huntsville: James E. Bous Hooper; V. N. Pettorson, Weber county schools; W. Preston Thomas, county agricultural agent; T. E. Jones, Kanesville: M. P. Brown, Eov; W. C. Hunter. Wilson; J. M. Wheeler, Slater-ville; Slater-ville; David Hancock, -West Weber; Joseph Jo-seph Skeen, Warren; J. L. Eobson, Plain City: George Taylor, Farr West; W. H. Lowder, Harrisville; R. T. Knees, Pleasant Pleas-ant View: John Bailey, North Ogden; ' H. B. Stalling!?, Eden; David E. Chard, Liberty; Timothy Kendoll, Uintah; Joseph Jo-seph Jacobs, Riverdale; John F. Barton, Amalgamated Sugar companv; John Felt, Blackman & Griffin Creamery compflDv. and S. S. Jensen, Ogden Packing Pack-ing & Provision company. The regular meeting of the directors is held in Ogden on the second Saturday of each month, and special meetings are leld at the call of the president. Local problems are taken up by the branch associations as-sociations and referred to the central bureau if necessary, while the directors take up any problem concerning the entire county. For the year 1916 the bureau has outlined out-lined much important agricultural work, the plan being to take up a few proi-ects proi-ects and consider these in every detail. This outline has been approved by the extension department of the Utah" Agricultural Ag-ricultural college. The major project will be dairying, which will be taken up under four general heads, namely: breeding, feeding, testing and marketing. market-ing. Projects Outlined. The other three projects for the year have been outlined bv Mr. Thomas, farm demonstrator, as follows: Diainage To create at least two drainage districts. Plain City and Hooper. Associated with the "bureau and farm demonstrator in this work will be W. X. Hall, United States drainage drain-age engineer, and R. S. Corlew, county surveyor. Development of underground water Pigling and driving of wells for water to be used for both irrigation and culinary cul-inary purposes, a careful check to be kept on cost and results. Eradication of the Canada thistle at Huntsville The county agent will cooperate co-operate with the county commissioners, Huntsville Farm Bureau association and farmers to eradicate the thistle from the district. The success of the farm bureau has beeu such for the first five months of its operation that the directors are considering con-sidering the question of opening offices in Ogden, where the county farm demonstrator dem-onstrator and officers of the organization organiza-tion may be found at regular periods. ft w is also planned to make such offices the headquarters for farmers and their .vives when they arc in the city. |