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Show UTAH FORGING TO FRONT IN EGG MARKET I Benjamin Brown, President of j Utah Poultry Producers, at Leadership Week. "Co-operative marketing in Utah is on the verge of a big advance-" declared Benjamin Brown, manager of the Utah Poultry association in his lecture on "Poultry Marketing," at the Farmers Conference at Leadership Lead-ership Courses Tuesday. He declared that, although the farmers realize that they are the backbone of the country, yet they do not fully realize that the backbone back-bone must be brought to the front rather than remaining in the background. back-ground. "The American farmers are able to carry out a plan of co-operative marketing because as a whole they are a broad-minded class of people," said Mr. Brown, "Since co-operation calls for sacrifices to place it on a sound foundation, those entering into such a project must be able to see the ultimate goal rather than the immediate future." "The personnel to head a scheme os such magnitude as co-operative marketing must be composed of the very best men available' said Mr. Brown in emulating the qualities necessary for such men. He mentioned men-tioned the following qualities : Truthfulness, personality of character, char-acter, experience in assembling material, in denoting" quality in grading, packing, and advertising, as well as knowledge of finance, accounting, ac-counting, commerce and transportation. transpor-tation. "If you have a high grade article the market is unlimited," continued , Mr. Brown. "During the year from March 1922 to the same month in 1923 Utah shipped out of the state 17 cars of eggs, since March 1923 we have shipped 150 cars. And I expect to see a total increase over last year of 170 cars of ten times the output of last year. "On these eggs we realized an increase in-crease in price per dozen of from five to eight cents over the prices of the previous year, giving a cash return re-turn of from $125,000 to 150.000. "During this same period Idaho and Nevada' farmers lost from one to two cents per dozen on their eggs sold in 1923 as compared to the previous pre-vious prices received in 1922. "This is not all; it helps in other ways. There are 27,000 farmers in this state, now say that 20.000 of these men eaeh have 300 chickens or a total of six million birds for the state. If each hen lays S3. 50 worth of eggs during the year, which is about the average production, the farmers of the state would realize twenty-one million dollars. It takes about one half of this amount for lion bushels of wheat, we can keep I our wheat on the farm rather than sell it. "Can wo overdo egg production? Just recently I opened a market in 1 Detroit for one car of eggs, now j they want two cars per week. These Jfccd. If chickens consume sis mil-j mil-j eggs sell at top New York prices. (Another retailer in the east wants j 10 cars of Utah eggs per week if he could get them. |