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Show FRUIT GROWERS JOIN STATE ORGANIZATION : ! Committees Organized in All Interested Communities in the County for Marketing of Agricultural Products A. L. Kelly, secretary of the Utah Fruit and Vegetable Growers' Grow-ers' association, spent last week in Washington county, meeting fruit growers of the principal communities interested in this industry, and encouraging them to join the state organization. The county locals have tentatively tenta-tively agreed to join and the local committees were selected as follows: Hurricane and La Verkin Amos Workman, chairman, with the board of directors of the old organization. Toquerville Martin Anderson, chairman; James Z. Naegle, J. W. Bergstrom, Howard Bring-hurst Bring-hurst and S. B. Stapley. Leeds David Stirling, chairman; chair-man; Evan Sullivan, Edward McMullin, Max McMullin and Willard McMullin. Washington Eugene Cripps, chairman; Haven Paxman, Mazel Sproul, Wm. Tobler and George Hall. Santa Clara E. R. Frei, Jr., chairman; Julius Wittwer, Milo Ence, Ivins; Rulon Stucki and Joseph Ray. Enterprise Ivor Clove, chairman; chair-man; A. P. Winsor, Heber Holt, Arthur Barlocker, William J. Truman. "When all other industries are so well organized," said Mr. Kelly, "agriculture has no chance in the new program unless un-less it, too, is organized. The U. S. government recognizes that agriculture is the backbone of all industries, and that the strength of the nation comes from the rural people. It is, therefore, vitally concerned with the success of agriculture." "President Hoover organized the federal farm board and has set aside a great sum of money to be used in the stabilization of agricultural commodities. He recognized the fact that a farmer, farm-er, acting alone, cannot market his crops to the best advantage." advan-tage." The state association is in line with the national program, and being a non-profit organization, organiza-tion, it can borrow money from the federal farm board to build marketing facilities. The only way that individual farmers can get federal farm board help is to organize local marketing organizations or-ganizations and then join with the state association. The national program aims to have all agricultural commodities commodi-ties marketed cooperatively, and have the supply regulated to meet the demand. This will, undoubtedly un-doubtedly bring a better pr'ce. The Utah state organization has the proper set-up and is offering of-fering to extend its services to this county. They already have 25 locals signed up, and last year handled 2000 carloads of produce. |