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Show THRESHING PRICES BEING PROTESTED Grain Growers to Consider Matter at Meeting in Ogden Next Monday. Grain growers of Weber and Davis counties are protesting against what they term exorbitant prices for threshing. thresh-ing. They represent that the threshers of the two counties have formed a threshermen 's association and have established es-tablished a uniform charge of 14 cents a bushel for threshing wheat, oats and barley. This price is set regardless of the fact that oats run only thirty-two pounds to tho bushel as against sixty pounds of wheat, thus bringing the cost of threshing oats up to practically twice that for threshing the . same weight of wheat. The threshers in the district last year asked 8 cents per bushel, it is understood, and the farm bureaus of both Davis and Weber coun- ties have objected and lodged a complaint com-plaint with the office of the food administration. ad-ministration. The food administration has jao authority au-thority to fix prices for threshing, according ac-cording to M. H. Greene, local representative repre-sentative of the United States grain corporation, but it has the right to hold hearings and protest against unreasonable unreason-able prices. A hearing will be held upon the protest pro-test of the farmers at Ogden tomorrow morning, at which time the thresher-men thresher-men also will be present. |