Show farm bureau r e a a news e S mintah county C ft COUNTY FARM BUREAU A T JOH JOHNSON EL IL D SMITH SMITA A 0 GOODRICH F 0 LUNDBERG DAVID COOPER 1 L D YOUNG 11 WALTER aloo 1 evident secretary treasurer Prest prudant dont western division DiTt lon vice president assistant treasurer commercial agent vernal utah who wh 0 will W 1 11 pa pay y I 1 the bills by george A will tho the fanner farmer go on a strike it thie this qu question could be answered by tho the present necessity of the farmer to protest and pro long hie his business life tho the answer would bo be NOW tho the farmers aro are juat just emerging from ono one of tho the most prolonged strikes over ever mado made by any class of tradesmen tro dosmon in id response to tho the cry that food will win tho the war ho he has truck struck tho the ground sixteen hours a day with but little assurance ae as to tho the business buel nosi outcome of his efforts he willin willingly kly and uncomplainingly did hie his bit against tho the great odde odds of bu business sinead it may sound a little radical to say any that during tho the war was the tirel first timo time for many years that tho the farmer had it in hie his power to profiteer the world was crying tor for bread broad and tho the army was crying tor for lead it is I 1 hard for tho the farmer to forget what happened tho the ono one who woe was to furnish tho the broad was restricted in hie his prices until ho be could barely burely pay the high cost of production brought on by high wages and profiteering ite ering arl prices COG on C commodities and farm equip equipments menti I 1 f 1 w ho he did hie his bit lie ile sent his sons to the front and hie his daughters to the fields ho he planted high priced code needs that came from e bouses only to find himself burdened with ith a abundant supplies of potatoes beans and other war products produced at st a tremendous cost and then to be left on his hands to spoil now what about the man who pro lead wae was ho he restricted in his prices ho he too was told to produce and cheerfully did ea so to the tune of cent on his investment annually now the use of all this stuff its all past pat now and the UBO use of spending time and wasting paper on national affairs when we have problems at homo home even oven more serious to tho the farmers interests than the above we are now emerging or struggling to emerge from one of tho the hardest blows ever experienced by ia farmers r in this section of tho the state an unparalleled drouth followed by an unprecedented hard winter in speaking of farmers I 1 include the cattle and sheep men for they are a very important part of our ag agricultural ri interests now to the issue that Is before us our county ie is now provided with abundant crops of grain and forage and those who need to purchase are destitute of funds and our banks havo have gone the limit in tiding us over the past crisis wo we are living in a county with an bright future a county with hills laden with latent wealth with soil soll groaning to produce and the bowels of the earth hilled billed with light and power only walling the roar of the locomotive to open their treasured vaults but put our problem is the present how are we going to lift the burden of debt that has to a great extent been unavoidably placed upon us there Is but one answer A long pull t a strong pull and all pull together got lier tho the banker can never hope to got back on to a firm lotin foundation dation by forcing tho the stockman to sell his bli cattle at one b half balf alf of what it cost to feed them through the past hard winter and leave in his burds banks of hay without a market anet bleave our nine destitute oft of i stock A 4 our merchants can never hope to relieve tho the financial strain by foro inc ing tho the fermor to dispose of his hi products at one half halt of tue th cost of 0 production our doctor doctors dentists and other professional classe acan never noyer themselves from their shareef share of the burden by taxing a bankrupt com beyond their power to pay what a must do la in to bo be magnanimous enough to share our put of tho burac our abne thought must be tho the future of the country it la Is useless for or one class to say wo we must have more for our services because we are burdened with greater expense than thun formerly it nants and pr professional people act on OU this theory under our present t condition where will tho the burden fall it will fall on the pro ducor ducer and if the producer la to to dis du poso ot of his products at halt tho the coat cost of production there Is but one ono thing left far for him himo and that ie to inevitable if tho the producer falls what will become of all those dependent upon him bim there moro la Is but one auB answer they to must fall there le to a certain class that seems to think that it Is alright to pay from one to three hundred per cent more for every hing abey buy ext except ept farm products and that farm products product a ought to sell ell on a prewar pre war baste basis the tact fact le is that the farmer li 19 and always baa has been one of tho the poorest paid of professional fess ional men t considerately say professional men because not with standing the opposite opp osato view there le Is no profession on earth that requires greater abil ity aban successful agriculture in su support p 0 rf of we that farming has not been a profitable business here in tho the past I 1 want to quote you from some of our most oat and best farmers the question wae was asked them by the writer before the war has your business paid sam herron 1 I have bavo made no money farming in ashley valley alley Vl I 1 have made some money buying cheap new land and developing it and selling it again clayburn Brim balls answer was almost verbatim to mr herrons nelson merkley markley ono one of our oldest and considered one of our best end and most successful farmers was asked the same question and his answer was about as follows 1 I 1 am going behind all alt the time I 1 told old my wife the other night that just as an soon as chii old body of mine was laid to rest to sell the farm and do it quick now if this the experience of such worthy farmers aa as these before the war how can you expect the farther to live and survive from the hardships of the past calamity and sell his products on a pre war bu sis he can not do it it means ruin to him and to you how can you expect a man to pay per ton tor for hay and per hd tor for corn to winter his stock and per hundred for seed grain two to three dollars per bushel for seed potatoes 50 00 per ton for hay and per hundred for oats to teed feed his yearns teams to plant bis his crops and pay from four to five dollars per day for men to help on the farm pay twice the usual price for all farm 1 lacau Pr ideate secretary treasur P 0 address donnett bennett wm adam adams J Z M lundberg Lund borc bennett utah alteria john gardner A mr D reynold reynolds ft Ducho Duch eno utah independence IL E womack J la finn GY myton utah moffatt 0 W bodily john 0 hacking 1 ft vt Duc Due hoino beene utah wm sprouse harman mulling lapoint utah aridell P 11 goodrich Goodr morley jonee jones tridell aridell Tr idell utah diamond ML wm F hanja hanson frank glines vernal utah A T F 0 LUND DEnO D SMITH J it county acet FOREST 8 club leater all communications for this page must bo be signed by the author and should be forwarded to the farm bureau office vornal vernal utah equipments and lell sell hie ble produce on ik 0 pro war baals ho ile cannot do it any more than th the a hanker k can n loan money at 6 per donjan confer t the h O 0 merchant can sell 11 good goods 50 60 per cent below coat cost or doctor doctors can work for or per day the tanner farmer must twelve more for hie his products product a or a famine Is inevitable ovi table many glod farmers are leaving their farms and going to the mine mines in an effort to moot meet their juat obligation there to 1 a reaction tf 6 n to follow a lack of production the eafe safe and eane sane way for too the consumer to be assured food at reasonable price la in to be willing to pay a reasonable arico for or food stuffs at all timea times the question naturally arises what Is a reasonable price if the farmer never made mado money before the war then you must multiply the pre war price of farm products product a by at least two that a would 0 in this county count wheat to per bushel oats to 0 per hundred hay bay 1200 per ton potatoes per bf bushel isbel eggs 40 to 50 cents per par dozen etc now I 1 am not contending that tha t the farmer should receive these prices but I 1 do contend thai he should be considered on an equal with all other lines of industry and that it Is poor business for any business anan to try to crush this foundation of all au other industries lets all pull together end and magnanimously nani nant bear our sharo share of the burden until the crisis has past FIRST FARM BUREAU PRESIDENT RANKS rann 4 IV e 0 A 10 4 1 01 01 4 4 GW 0 41 V A 4 G 2 0 ak 17 op W dram the american farm bureau Fedwa federation tion drafted a real farmer arster troa vom the ranks to erre serve as its it first president proal deat he ie james R howard of clemons Clemo aa ia three year years aco ago jim howard was va known to his as a the th best tanner tamer in central iowa so 0 o they elected him head of the local county fana farm barbaa Bare aa laa year the etaf state a selected him and now he head kea the national body howard krew grew up on the amis tar tara where be he bew now urea only the thal ari original ginal quarter octlona now numbers barea he ile attended ehtel at grinnell penn collese and university of Ch leaco he tried teach then bankins ban kinc kint bat but 10 year yeata aco ago returned to active charf charge of 0 as th old OW cara tam which BOW row Is coed 1 aea of the UW beat in tae um tata awe |