Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-07-30 | Page 12 | Farmers' Meeting to Talk Threshing Price

I i I IXU f I XU ESDA Y YI t I FARMERS FARMERS' MEETING TO TAU TAEK THRESHING PRICE I A meeting of farmers of Utah county Is being held hel this afternoon at Sandy t to discuss uniform threshing charges of wheat oats and barley The grain growers will consult Mark H. H Green Utah representative sent tive of the United States grain corporation who Is a assisting In adjustments of charges whenever I called upon I Thre Threshing prices for for- Weber and andI Davis counties were lVere agre agreed d. d upon at a I meeting of farmers of those two counties counties coun coun- ties yesterday afternoon at Ogden I Thirteen cents a bushel will be paid for wheat 11 cents for barley and 9 cents for oats These prices were I fixed by Mr Green as as' as asa a compromise I between th the prices prices' asked by the j I threshers and the prices the farmers I desired to pay Both sides agreed to f t accept his compromise e. e I According to Mr Green the have taken a patriotic II stand In Ia f submitting their prices prices' to adjustment ad- ad ad 1 d and but for this action on I I their part the threshing threshing n in I Utah with a wealth of wheat ripen ripen- i j ing ling In the fields nelda might have become I serious