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Show Utah Farm Groups Favor Retaining Marketing Act Senator William K. King will bring the wrath of Utah'r organized agriculture down on his head if he rt tempts to carry into ef fscL. his reported ;-lan to destroy the agricultural agri-cultural marketing' act and the federal farm board by congressional congression-al action this winter. This was announced in Salt Lake recently by officials of the Utah Poultry Producers' Cooperative association, as-sociation, the Northwestern Turkey Growers' association and the Utah State Farm bureau. Clyde C. Edmonds, general manager man-ager for both poultry and turkey organizations, has taken the first step in the fight to preserve the marketing act of 1929 and the farm board which it created, bv sending a letter to Senator King in Washington, Wash-ington, D. C, asking if the reports re-ports are correct and if the Utah solon is preparing s bill repudiating the effect of the marketing act dissolving the farm board and seeking seek-ing liquidation of obligations and loans. George F. Stallings, president of the state farm bureau, will also send a letter to Senator King asking ask-ing for a definite committment of his policy, respecting the act and farm board, Miss Edna Rosen-krantz, Rosen-krantz, bureau executive secretary announces. Ih his letter Mr. Edmonds in-1 formed Senator King that the state j poultry organization, comprising : over 8,000 members ,and the turkey i group with 14,000 members in eight; western states, aretrongly in. favor of the- marketing act and the farm ,board because of their past and potential po-tential benefit ' to agriculture and .poultry- . These organizations will bitterly oppose any action tending to destroy these federal agencies or diminish" their effectiveness, it was stated . -- If reports are correct and Senator Sen-ator King persists in his attack. Mr. Edmonds plans to urge the members of the organizations he represents to flood Washington with letters of protest. The state farm ' bureau, said Miss Rosen-krantz, Rosen-krantz, is 100 per cent in favor of the act and the farm board and will resist ny effort to do away them. z |