Show fARMERS SOCIETY NOW s VAS HAS EPHRAIM BRANCH BRANCHi i S Ne New Organization Launched at Meeting j fr Last Tuesday Evening jI As part of a movement that has be become become come general throughout Sanpete and andt t Sevier counties the farmers of this I community perfected a branch or organization organ organ- an- an X j of the National Farmers Society So I of Equity Tuesday evening The meeting was held in the new library b. b j t building and notwithstanding the unsettled weather a representative gathering g was present and the auditors audit audit- i ore listened attentively the t ors to speech u of H. H G. G Morris field deputy of of the i society With striking illustrations t the e speaker impressed on the minds minda of the farmers the benefits that are derived from organization and nd systematic systematic matic methods of or conducting busin busi busi- n Hess ness ess Mr Morris dwelt at length on on the FM r efficiency resulting from the scientific organization of some of the large busin business s c concerns and acid called particular S lar attention to the railroads and one w of the big shoe manufacturing concerns concerns con cou- cerns cerns erns of St. St Louis The fundamental principle of al alt al business he said is cost of f. f production and this was exemplified exemplified ex ex- rf by the cases cited He ads ad's advocated advocated ad ad- s 's i an adaptation of the same ks methods method to the vocation of the farm farmer er and asserted that limited financial A resources and careless shipping methode methods methods meth meth- ode oft often n circum circumscribe cribe the success of the smaller farmers' farmers organizations T The e speaker called attention to the work of the Idaho branch of the national organization and said that the farmers farmers farmers' in Idaho are denying s profit from the society's operative co-operative r system of marketing and buying He i stated that the farmers have effected f a big saving in the purchase of such z necessities as farm machinery a l and lumber and in the marketing of their J products r as well as through the standardization of crops He referred to the co operative cooperative farmers' farmers organizations organizations in Europe also alse to the go gov government v- v r. r support given the farmers inI in I Europe through i th the land ban banks s and andI I rural rura credit f i t n f r. r if i said said d that l the fal farmer er in Denmark receives 92 cents on every dollars dollar's worth which he produces while the American farmer receives r only 42 cents and the middleman 48 48 cents He also ca letl attention to the coincidence that according to government statistics for the year 1913 the toe middleman's profits profi and the farm mortgages are almost exactly the same in iu amount t Branch organizations of the society e have been formed in Mt Pleasant f Manti Gunnison Sterling F Fayette yette t and Axtell Axtel The local orga organization was organized with t the e following officers 0 C. R. R Dorius r rain raim im Peterson vice-president vice Dan Thompson secretary and treasurer W |