Show THE ENCAMPMENT NEWS 4 KEYNOTE OF ENCAMPMENT STRUCK IN OPENING SESSION (Continued from Page One) of at least a million people In addition to this are the expert facilities of Los Angeles reaching throughout the Pacific This market is one of a number of very important developments of the last fifteen or twenty years-Beforthat time it did not exist as a prominent factor in our economic life Here is a discriminating public with large pure What do they need? Just what we produce: butter milk eggs poultry apples and a meats sugar ' wheat variety of other basic necessities California is a beautiful but chasing power country producing superficial oranges olives lemons nuts and such luxuries We can well do without them all We produce basics the foods just mentioned and wool and hides and in a mining way the basic metals and coal What an opportunity this gives us to sell to a comparatively wealthy population Los Angeles is only one of a number of such Others opportunities we have exist or could be developed “What must be done to enter and stav in this market? We must produce a commercial grade of the products they need and in sufficient quantity to be depended upon as a permanent part of their subsistence We must if we go into this field or other similar fields profitably have standardized production on a larger scale “It was remarked last winter that one of the most important developments of our Farm Bureau movement should be the encouragement Of the organization and administration of industrial r units among our farmers so that our butter or cheese for instance could be bulked graded and marketed in sufficient quantity to attract Los Angeles or any other similar market So with egg production our poultry men should unite in such a way that their products could be put in the best markets available instead of depending upon local manipulation So with apples so with dressed poultry so with other meats and This is now an all our staples urgent possibly the most urgent problem confronting the farmers “The conditions under which we meet this summer are encouraging Agriculture has not passed out of the shadow entirely but there has been sufficient development so that any doubt about our future has been dispelled The past two years has not been without its great value All America now knows how fully national prosperity rests upon the purchasing power of the farmer Take away this purchasing power as was done in 1920 and the whole economic structure of trade and manufac- turing collapses- - “The power of agriculture is overwhelming in America This power is now assuming an organized conidtion Every thoughtful citizen I believe is coming to recognize the necessity of this In our present organization trouble between laborers on one hand and owners of our large transportation and mining enterprises on the other it is a source of great comfort to know that Congress is measurably and desirably controlled by those whose constituents are the farmers of the nation In our present grave industrial crisis it appears to me July 27 1922 providential that the farmers of America have come to exercise the control which they now have in federal legislation Their interest is not in wages nor in dividends primarily their interest is in political and economic security because they own the land of the nation and raise the children to carry on the nation after they are gone It is this primitive and noble relationship of man family and land which will save us from the extremes of Russia But we must give this great population every legitimate facility by way of education roads and tax adjustments And let it be said also no advantage should be given The which is not legitimate farmers of the nation neither require nor ask anything which will be injurious to any other class Class favoritism of any kind is a grave curse to societv and no free and happy people can exist long in its presence” o SIGHTS AT THE EXPERIMENT FARM FOR VISITORS One of the Encampment excursions will be to the Experiment Farm at North Logan where visitors will see at least two vital experiments One is ten methods of killing morning glory which is a pest all over the state and nand otoriously so in San Pete Davis counties The best of the ten methods is frequent tillage The other experiment is on the subject of treating overcropped beet land Four methods are in use those of tillage green manure farm manure and rotation Warfare against weeds and the secrets of beet culture are two subjects that should be of prime interest to visitors from all over the state EN-CAMPME- NT |