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Show FARMER PRICE PARITY URGED Passing of resolutions, discussion of Future Farmers of America and 4-H club activity, and consideration considera-tion of technical subjects featured the closing sessions of the four-day convention of the Utah State Farm bureau convention at the Newhouse hotel Friday. James A. Hooper, secretary of the (Continued on Pact Eight) (Column On. I FARMER PRICE PARITY-URGED (OMkM mat Put OMl Utah Woolgrowar" association, de-4 de-4 cried objection to Increases in meat j and clothing prices with the taw- 7 tioa Chat farm en cannot stand th Inese incurred through mora eost- i ly operation, but that tha load mint a Wo be passed on to the consumer. ! "We muat (at a parity price for our product which will pay ua to I remain in agriculture," ha aaid. ' Share No Fair ! Averring that agriculture produced pro-duced AO par cant of th budgeted necessities of th nation, ha aaid that tha f armor i -not receiving bin j (air share of th returns. H producod figures to show that vr on billion dollar In materials bad been Imported In th United State during th first six months of th year, and that only .433.000,-000 .433.000,-000 la value had been exported, which, he asserted, deprived America Amer-ica fanners of a $713,000,000 market. mar-ket. C It Woods, assistant regional forester, presented a paper written by It. H. Rutiedge. regional forester, for-ester, which stated that Utah Is approaching ap-proaching a point where lack of water will seriously hendioap fur-thst fur-thst '"I ElpamlHsn Cited The paper showed that about on and one-third billion dollar had been expended to develop the arid valley of the state, a sum equivalent equiva-lent to an Investment of about $139 for each of the 10,400,000 acre of watershed lands. These data aleo suggest that. In order to safeguard the huge Investment Invest-ment already made, it la highly es-I es-I sential that proper never condi-I condi-I tions be maintained on the water-' water-' shed so as to Insur Indefinitely the maximum yield of usable water. To th extent this can not be accomplished ac-complished nnder private ownership, owner-ship, the state or federal government govern-ment should acquire and manage the lands." Aooompllshments of the stats farm debt adjustment bureau were outlined by N. G. Miller of Murray, state farm debt supervisor. ! "Many farmer have made con- j tract in good faith, but climatic conditions and price change over ! which they had no control have i rendered them unable to meet their i debts with the produce of their farms," he explained. "It ha been the object of the adjustment bureau to brine about i mediation which would find a point f economic justice between debtor and creditor and allow the farmer to continue his labors." He reported that between September, Sep-tember, 1933, and November, 1937. consideration had keen given 349 eases, of which 915 were adjusted. The adjusted case Involved 90,000 acres of land with a value of $1,-. $1,-. 70,000: farmers were saved $313,000 f debt and IMJOO of delinquent taxes were paud. Cooperative Insurance was described de-scribed ta the delegates by Dr. j Francis W. Kirkham, and Karl & j Little, maaaging director of the ! Utah 8Ut Credit Union league, outlined the operation of a credit ( union and reoom mended th establishment estab-lishment ef credit union among I fart people, . - |