| Show Nv et I I EMPIRE EDITION 1 '2 Om THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Sunday' January 18 1948 sEcTION - b i E 7cT- t LES LIVESTOCK PRODUCERS ASSO1AT1Ct MAR15ETING vi ' "TOON THE HANDS"' OF A FRIEND SI $ALT c FRGA BEGINNING LAKE TO - END Of WI MAMMA( IWISTOCE POOPUCARS ASSIO 0111 WM ' Ls ax zs AIGIMCIES 11211111E Malting i 101'Y 00 0 I ir- P Your Grower Owned 10 and Grower Controlled C 4 t : fr ' Livestock Hari:cling Cooperative 'q?7! I t'e "opwmo More than 1500000 Head of Livestock Handled First 10 Months of 1947 - I """til Now Serving the Entire West With Agencies at - a' of the future will bo in expert hands when the Much imps rovement in quality of western livestock results from prolects undertaken and directed by Future Farmers F F A boys reach rocrturity and follow the plow—their symbol By MARK NICHOLS ttah State FFA Advieer y BELIEVE in the future of farming with a faith born not of words but of deeds— achievements won by the present and past generations of farmers In the promise of better days through better ways even as the better things we now enjoy have COTne up to us from the struggles of former years" This is the first paragraph of the creed of the Future Farmers of America Every F ir A member learns this creed when he is initiated as a 'Greenhand- - into the organization The majority of Future attendance Livestock crop farm mechanics and poultry exhibits were featured The Future Farmer bond A Fuplayed several concerta ture Farmer sweetheart was selected from contestants In 28 In from the National Future Farmers of America Foundation Inc 5 Twelve or more chapters to conduct a Junior dairy herd improvement program The outstanding chapter to receive a all-sta- te operative effort such as selling crops and livestocks and purchasing feed seed and other materials 10 All chapters to render some outstanding activity in community service The above 10 items are but a few of the proposed activities included in the 1948 Future Farmer program of work which was made up and approved at the 1947 state F F A convention purebred dairy heifer from the Youth Builds for Abundance In Years to Come chapters These and many other addltional features made the state convention a most successful one Farmers integrate this philosophy into the very warp and woof of their everyday thinking and doing The year 1947 has been an important one for intermountain Future Farmers Food production and total receipts from farming were the highest recorded in Future Farmer history Cross receipts from F F A production projects in Utah alone amounted to approximately one million dollars The sale of fat cattle hogs and lambs at seven junior livestock market 'thaws during the year accounted for half of this amount The annual Future Farmer convention held at the Centennial exposition grounds last August lives as a pleasant memory in Future Farmer history Hundreds of lr A members from all chapters in the state were lb the future The F F A association has the following on the agenda for the 1943 program: 1 Every FFA member to continue the hight rate of farm production to insure the maximum amount of food from a given acreage 2 Finish cattle to the "good" grade only in order to conserve grain Every Future Farmer having crop projects to include soil and water conservation practices in his farming program 4 Eight outstanding Utah chapters to purchase a purebred hog sire from funds received 3 PERRY HOLLEY (Drinkard & - lIorth Sall Lake VAN MOSS Mgr Emmert Inc) BEN DIXIE Wt EVEN General Manager Denver rr Ky t:w - VILISATCH LIVESTOCK LOA i firtp7 4 07 77) Ida for distribution over the nation As In all other plants of the west milk received at Star valley factories is tested for sediment and bacteria and that not up to standard is rejected Ls An Mgr L H JACOB Continued from Page 10 pounsds of milk annually for the cheese plants The finished product is trucked 50 miles to the nearest railhead at Montpelier The cheese Les Angeles Ogden Salt Lake City DAIRY PROGRESS agricultural committee of the state bankers association 6 Conduct a state Future Farmer convention and judging The state winning activities and poultry judging teams dairy to compete in the national contest at Waterloo Iowa and the winning stock judging team to be sent to Kansas City to participate in the national FFA livestock and meat judging contests 7 Sixty chapter farmers to receive the state farmer degree at the state F F A convention and three state farmers to receive the American farmer degree at the national F F A convention at Kansas City irt October 1948 8 Each Future Farmer to have one or more projects in farmstead improvement and home beautification 9 Every chapter to conduct three or more activities in co however FUTURE FARMERS their eyes keeping to Products of the soil are developed to new lusciousness and giant size ander the watchful car of youthful experts 300 FIRST NATIONAL BANK BLDG I H TACOS litryoual Telephone I CLAYTON Mgr Salt Lake City is Utah Secy 11 processed in cop- cad per kettles of pacity with one wheel of cheese produced per kettleful The cheese is washed and salted twice a week and placed in a warm room for about two months for curing and eye formation It is then held for aging in a cold room the process requiring from three to six months with some aged longer for certain markets 2500-poun- 200-pou- A COMPLETE Livestock Loan Service nd BREEDER AND FEEDER LOANS '''' I Inferest nale 412 - A little play inspires greater effort on the crop productiod front and comes in handy at conventions of F F A V- - ri AE a swam a i A" 7eptar'! - - 44ow qbk t A '24 v 1 0 7: ) $ 4 7' 1t!r::: i ')11P oo : - ie It tir IP' 7 ii14A'a ito 4 itiv"41s' o C t t -4!4" q V ) ('' eve r0f4t: ie - (111 44414:111)0at dB ''''' Jig zzio dr- i Nri imt 1114e4 1' 40" 160 04 - r- 4 I 4baf L kr"' ZN ' 'k 4 Wr 5r$P VAL r ' kg Oc - a million dollar co-operati- 1' 't cars representing Almost 1000 refrigerated well over a million dollars' freight worth of Utah's Mountain Crisp vegetables rolled away from the Utah Celery five modern processing plants at Corinne Midvale American Fork Springville and Cedar City during the 1947 season These shipments 1944 represent more than four times the car loadings and six times the 1944 dollar volume These Mountain crisp shipments have gone to major markets in every state Improvement in growing practices insistence on strict grading and a pack have combined with sound marketing practices to give the Mountain Crisp brand a reputation for top 'quality among customers of the nation's leading chains and independent grocers strives to put Utah Pascal Celery on the The "Co-op- " market progressively earlier each season Shipments started September 12 in 1944 This year Utah's finest celery — young tender stringless and sweet — was shipped beginning August 11 Next year the "Co-op- " hopes to get its celery on the market as early as July 20 - enterprise ve Co-operati- m ' for Mutual Benefit on is a growing packing shipping Utah Celery s and sales organization owned by its Its goal is twofold: (I) to improve the quality and pack of Utah vegetables by careful selection of seed strains scientific grow ing practices strict grading standards and better methods of and (2) to further the processing and reputation of Utah's fine produce in the markets of the nation In its efforts to achieve these goals the "Co-op- " serves both Utah farmers and all the people of Utah through the mutual benefits of enterprise Co-operati- ve farmer-member- Co-operativ- e's top-quali- Co-operativ- e's - - i c 11 tr'r"aAak opod e o" vit ' C"'" 4 Llitr 'ME 11111111 am -onErner L - 41" N - Ct F -1- I - 111 IA LF1 a ty TOP LEFT: New processor tops grades sizes and sacks onions right in the field CENTER: A field of Utah Pascal celery appears at its prime just before harvest TOP RIGHT: "Mountain Crisp" carrots are harvested from mineral-ric- h fields near çkMf A' i Cedar City BELOW: Ca lleen Robinson munches a tender sweet stalk of "Mountain Crisp" Utah celery top-quali- ty pre-emine- IMMMItaMISMICANDUNEMWINMMR c11f00 Here's the box score of this year's operation as compared with 1944 the earliest year for which complete data is available nt SHIPMENTS 1944 Carrots Celery 1 130 10 Potatoes 4 79 Onions Cabbage Estirnotos on shipmonts i 1947 126 e 4 600 Over150 Over 140 Over 125 to January WinIffakMMEC tfinglatittEMWALTO MUM' 0 AND LCL's IN CARLOADS t: )1 19 0 ea c I r ( I ) s I I - 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