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Show S FARM TOPICS , Preparations are being made in Oakland for the annual regional meeting of the boards of directors and secretary-treasurers of the livestock production credit associations as-sociations of Utah, Arizona, Nevada Ne-vada and California to be held on July 9 and 10. Those expected to attend from the Utah Farm Production Credit Association are T. A. Butterfield of Riverton, president; Abraham Hanse, Richfield John P. Holmgren,, Holm-gren,, Bear River City; Saul E. Hyer, Lewiston; John M. Mills, Ggden; and E.' K. Winder, secretary-treasurer, Salt Lake City. Representatives of the Utah Livestock Production Credit association as-sociation will include Ephraim Berge-son of Cornish, president; S. M. Jorgensen, Salina; Moroni A. Smith, Salt Lake City; D. H. Adams of Layton; W. B. Mathis, St.. George; and Arthur Smith, secretary-treasurer, Salt Lake City. quickly, so that riper peaches may be marketed. During 1936 approximately 2,-150,000 2,-150,000 families certified as on relief, received 896 million pounds of foodstuffs obtained by the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation Cor-poration through surplus removal programs coducted by the Agricultural Agricul-tural Adjustment Administration, according to a press release from the Office of Information of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. "To produce efficiently is to release time and energy for other uses, adding to the enrichment of life. Not to produce as efficiently as possible would be silly. Not to regulate the total volume of production, pro-duction, to relate it to consumptive consump-tive demand, also would be silly. No factory is expected to, produce pro-duce without regard for the. market mar-ket conditions. No factory Is expected ex-pected to fail, even when producing produc-ing at less than capacity, to take advantage of new efficiencies. The same reasoning applies to agriculture." Henry A. Wallace, secretary of agriculture. i Wheat prices in futures markets in the United States have already adjusted to an export basis, according ac-cording to a report of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. "But some further adjustment in cash prices, which are still on a comparatively high level on account ac-count of the scarcity of old wheat on hand, is likely as supplies of new wheat increases," the report re-port says. Many growers this year are shipping peaches in a ventilated basket designed by fruit-marketing men in the United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture. Its open, crown-shaped cover and slotted slides allow the fruit to be pre-cooled pre-cooled more effectively and more |