Show meeting monday ado d na hi A large and enthusiastic gathering of livestock men and farmers listen ed to professor professor john T caine III and J H manderfield manager of the salt lake stockyards Stock yards at the vernal first ward chapel tuesday night llie visitors came by way of lapoint from roosevelt and had experienced perien perlen ced some real pioneer travel ing by auto they arrived in time however to deliver stirring addresses and to point out the possibility ot 01 feeding steers and lambs in the uin tali basin for marketing during the spring months when the market Is usually bare and prices are the high est the industry Is new in this section and practically untried but the speakers believed it to be within the range of possibility mr manderfield derfl eld indicated how such a move can be financed the money is loaned to farmers who have built up their credit for the purchase of lambs or steers it I 1 la Is furnished on the usual terms and upon securities that are ample by local bankers the local bankers are aided when necessary necess necessary ark by the larg er banks of salt lake city these loans will enable the farmers carmera to purchase steers or lambs for feeding during the winter and to be marketed in the spring when prices are the very best this in brief was their message and it will no doubt be not only received but acted upon by the uintah basin farmers and stockmen stoc kmen prof A theodore job johnson in a brief announcement introduced prof john W T caine III as the first speaker mr caine said in part we have held meetings today at cedarview Ced arview and other places outside of roosevelt then visited moffat and from the latter place WP wo came to vernal experiencing much difficulty on the way it Is certain ly a hard road to travel our trip is a hurried one and our business the most serious in the world while the war into which our nation has entered is reaping its harvest of death and spreading misery among the nations of europe a greater en only einy than the armies of the ger mans is threatening the inhabitants of the world viz famine the battle is one of food and the producer of food Is fiven even more essential than the man in the trench some say we are not interested in this war be cause it is so go far away it is far letter to do our fighting in france than on our own soil if the germans are not vanquished there we will have to meet them here on american soil with famine threatening to overwhelm the world america must not only feed herself but also her allies to do this every person must do his utmost in food production the government Is sending out an army of trained men to awaken tho people to the peril the world is in and to cause them to exert themselves to the utmost to increase and conserve the food supply that is our business tonight when I 1 as in washington I 1 learned that the government Is preparing for a three years war government experts have computed that it will take at least bushels of wheat out of the 1917 crop to feed the allies and the hinted states must furnish it this year next year this ecat ua produce one billion bushels of wheat an increase of 12 per cent over the largest wheat crop we have ever produced of this an aunt utah farm ers era must produce more than their share in the meat supply of the world the condition la Is appalling during the past two years the decrease in meat animals in the world Is alf million nill llon that immense number have disappeared from the earth two years ago the united states had 61 51 million beet beef animals now it has only 42 million it will take the united states at least five years to get back to a normal production of meat animals and it will take europe twenty five years to do so this condition insures high prices for meat animals of all kinds for i 2 long term of years in the matter of dairy cattle the condalor con dAlon is even worse in the east because of high prices tor for beef millions of dairy tows cows have been slaughtered for beef until now there Is a famine for milk butter and cheese in III washington and oregon butter fat ts Is bringing 72 cents a pound butter fat is selling in cache valley tor for 62 cents at present and in the near future butter will be 75 cents a pound on oil the salt lake market with these conditions existing the uintah basin farmers have a splendid opportunity feed beef steers and lambs this winter and sell them on the salt lake market next spring prod produce uce 1 lhutter utter fat and your creamery can sell it for you outside at high prices produce hogs bogs and keep the at home that you are now paying out for hog products it Is a crime for the uintah basin to draw on the hog bog supply of the corn states their meat every pound of it should go to europe ile he complimented the people upon tipon what the ladles ladies had lone done in cons rv ing food every thing should be tved caved by canning or drying it will all be needed and needed badly the government la is now taking up the cause of the farmer and the middle man is gradually being eliminated filin no now on the firmer will lie de given ghen a square deal county agent J H introduced trod rod J 11 dinager of f th salt lake stock yards company mr manderfield stated that a number of the leading stockmen stoc kmen of the state had bad united their financial forces and at a cost of a quarter of a million dollars had established a r adern stockyards stock yards ards in salt lake cit cra tibey faey had also alao induced one of tile the birge packing houses of the united blates the cudahy people to establish a branch house in salt lake the stock block bards were opened in III april and in four months handled over a million dollars worth of cattle sheep arid and hogs the producers had received prices that netted them more than they would have received had the animals been sold in the great packing centers of the east an intermountain livestock market was needed and has now been established the great problem Is to supply fat animals during april may and june the speaker said that when he was in the uintah bas ban in with the salt lake commercial club he be was impressed port unity the farmers of this see sec tion had to feed and fatten meat animals thereby providing a splendid market tor for their hay and grain ile he advised the farmers to buy good promising thick fleshed steers and teed feed them until spring then send them to salt lake in other sections of the state the local hankers bankers had financed careful farmers N worthy orthy of credit and these bankers in turn had been supported by hie large banks of salt I 1 ake city in some cases to the extent of 50 the farmers had made money money and in turn the banking institutions had profited thereby one farmer at duchesne last year bear fed life his hay bay to beef cattle that were marketed in salt lake and his hay bay brought him 30 per ton mr manderfield said that his company did not ask the people to soil sell their livestock in salt lake unless th they ey could do as well as thea the could hy by shipping elsewhere the present capacity of their yard la Is ample anil and when this region can supply the meat animals other packers will establish plants there is no limit to the market ile he urged the farmers farmere to make every possible effort to establish the feed industry in the uintah basin and to send finished animals t to 0 the market ills his company would do all in its power to aid them representatives of the commission companies of salt lake city were present but none of them delivered addresses there was an unusually large attendance of farmers and livestock men and all exhibited intense interest in the important message the gentlemen had to present they have called attention to a new and profitable industry that will bo be established the start ill doubtless be made this winter |