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Show SPEAKERS STRESS COOPERATION Farm Meeting at St. George on Tuesday Night Attended by Nearly Two Hundred Persons i ' ' The meeting Tuesday evening at the College building called for the discussion discus-sion of the problems facing the Dixie-farmers, Dixie-farmers, and conducted by Walter F. Smith, county agent, and Orval Hafen, Ha-fen, manager of the cooperative produce pro-duce association, was attended by nearly two hundred persons. Acreage-for Acreage-for a definite growing program next year was signed up, memberships in the cooperative produce association were received, and preferred stock of the organization was disposed of. Those taking part in the discussion were Walter F. Smith, "Orval Hafen, Pres. Jos. K. Nicholes, W. W. McArthur, McAr-thur, Brig Jarvis, Jr., D. H. Morris, Will Whitehead, John T. Woodbury, Sr., Jos. T. Atkin, Sr., H. L. Reid, Geo. Brooks, Jr., Ruben Stratton and others. It was the expressed opinion of the speakers that the efforts of the county agent and the Cooperative association to bring agriculture in Dixie from its present declining state to an outstanding outstand-ing industry, was worthy of the support sup-port of everyone, farmer, business man and the average citizen; that all or- ganizations of the county should come forward with financial assistance in support of the program as outlined by the county agent and the produce association. as-sociation. This organization's only-means only-means of support now is the sale of preferred stock and money derived from this source is used to defray operating op-erating expenses and to purchase seed to advance to farmers under contract with the association. Following are the four districts of Washington county as segregated for agricultural purposes, the vegetables; recomfmtended for each and the minimum mini-mum acreage desired by the cooperative coopera-tive association for next season: District 1. Enterprise, Central, Pine-Valley, Pine-Valley, New Harmony, Veyo, Gunlock- Vegetables desired: Late dry beans, 100 acres; late cabbage, 10 acres; mid-season mid-season lettuce for Salt Lake market, five acres; late dry onions, mostly for local markets, 10 acres; sorghum (raised (rais-ed this year mostly at Gunlock), 10 acres; late potatoes, 100 acres. Total for district 1, 235 acres. District 2. Springdale, Rockville-,. Grafton and Virgin. Vegetables recommended and minimum mini-mum acreage: Supplying needs of the-Utah the-Utah parks with miscellaneous vege , tables such as carrots, potatoes, turnips, tur-nips, onions, sweet corn, string beans, tomatoes, 10 acres; dry onions for June-shipment, June-shipment, 15 acres; early tomatoes, 10 acres; early peas for Salt Lake, 15 acres. District 3. Washington St. George;. Bloomlington, Santa Clara and Ivins. Vegetables recommended and minimum mini-mum acreage: Miscellaneous vegetables vege-tables for truck lines such as early-cabbage, early-cabbage, corn, lettuce, beans, potatoes, 15 acres; bunch vegetables for shipment ship-ment on truck lines and for carlot shipment to Salt Lake (radishes, carrots, car-rots, beets, bunch onions, turnips), 40 acres; early tomatoes, 25 acres; early cucumbers, 5 acres, melons 15 acres,. June dry onions, 25 acres. District 4. Hurricane, La Verkin, Toquerville, To-querville, Leeds and Pintura. Vegetables recommended and minimum mini-mum acreage: Early onions, 35 acres;, early tomatoes, 25 acres; early asparagus, aspara-gus, 10 acres; early cucumbers, 5 acres; early carrots, 10 acres; early cabbage, 5 acres and sorghum, 40 acres. , , i |