Washington County News | 1929-03-14 | Page 1 | Fruit Growers to Meet Saturday

FPJJIT GROWERS TO MEET SATURDAY A meeting of the fruit and vegetable vege-table growers of the county has been called for Saturday, March 16, at 10 o'clock at the county agent's office. The organization of a county fruit and vegetable marketing association will be discussed, and a large representation rep-resentation of the growers is expected. ex-pected. John M. Macfarlane, president of the state marketing association, will be in the county the latter part- of this week and will attend the meeting. meet-ing. The state association is now working on a marketing plan and local growers will be urged to affiliate affili-ate with the state body. Formerly Utah produce has been turned over to outside organizations for marketing. market-ing. The initial committee appointed at the Hurricane meeting two weeks ; ago. will report Saturday on prof'- I r'-ss. The members have canvasser! their local communities to learn the general sentiment and get a line on the amount of support that could be counted on. The committee con- : sis's of Julius Wittwcr, Santa Clara; ; Frank Staheli. Washington Eugene1 Cripps, Middleton; David Stirling.; T.ff-dx; James A. Nric, Toquerville; ' Henry Gubler of La Verkin and , Amos Workman of Hurricane.