Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-08-07 | Page 2 | Seed Growers of Utah Will be Protected

GROWERS OF UTAH WILl ILL I BE PROTECTED II I I I State Farm Bureau Selling Committee Proposes to Market Product t Under Cooperative Arrangement I II I A large Jarge percentage of all aU the alfalfa and clover seed sed grown In Utah and I I Idaho the present t season will be bej marketed through h one agene agency controlled b by D the producers themselves accordIng according accord accord- I in ing to announcement yesterday b by Nl N. L. L Peterson o of f Delta chaIrman airman of a aI I special MO committee that his has been tinting in a 1 5 contract f for tor r the cooperative selling o of the product According to Mr Peterson tho the plan Was approved ed b by the Idaho Growers I sex several oral weeks ago and the necessary I minimum acreage under the contract has already been signed in the Gem Gm I State Action was withheld In this i however Pending Indorsement ement lof th the C plan b by the thc Utah I state ate farm Carm bu buThis bu- bu reau This Indorsement Is said to have h been en given I at a meeting of oC the board of ot directors In Logan LOJan a n few tew days a ago aRo o. o A plan originally worked out by th the special committee and accepted with minor chan changes chane es by Northrup King Co a Minnesota i seed com company pan pro- pro I tha that t Its we Wester tern branch In this city will be or organized Into the Wc Western tern Marketing company for tor I the purpose of oC financing the tJ growers rowers land land selling their se seed jd d The 1 seed ed producers pro- pro I are to exercise full tuB control over r I the sale of oC eer every consignment accord accord- lIng jing to Mr Ir Peterson on 1 Sixty per cent of oC the prevailing pre market mar mar- I ket price of oC the seed will be paid the grower at the time he delivers his crop I the balance due le less s the charges to be paid as the seed I Is sold In addition to 1 I the freight and actual cost of or leaning cleaning 1 J I warehousing and bulking the grower pr will pay the maI marketing com company pan 7 74 per cent of or tho ho selling price for the theer service service ser ser- erco vice co rendered Contracts covering co the acreage e necessary necessary essary to completion of or the thc plan in this thin state tate will be obtained through the Utah association an or organization organization tion growing out of ot last years year's pooling operations Chairman Peterson of or the special committee stated tatT tat T yesterday that local associations In the Millard Emery Emen and Uinta sections of or the state would be advised at once once to proceed with tho the signing of ot contracts for or the 1921 crop He also said that Maurice K Keating western representative of ot Northrup ort rup King Co for the past last seve several nl years e rs would bl be retained as as manager of or the Marketing com company any