Show I FARMERS OF UTAH DISCUSS PROBLEMS PRESIDENT PRESIDENT OP Or STATE rATE oRGANIZATION TION SEES B GINNING BEGINNING OF NEW EPOCH OF SERVICE Bettering g of Business Conditions and op Co-op operative Co-operative Movement Discussed DIsCussed at Annual Convention Substantial Gain in Membership Shown Salt V Lake City Ten City Ten Ten thousand farmers of the state attended the time opening session of the annual convention conven conven- Hon tion of the tho Utah State Farm Fann Bureau on January 20 26 time tIle representatives of ol the farmers of the time state having as their their motto better farming better business better living In the time opening days day's discussions place was made for consideration of the thc w work rk the time bureau has done and can cando cando cando do in making for better farms In helpIng helpIng helping help help- ing the farmers to better business methods and in promoting better homes Beginning of New Epoch D. D D. D McKay of Huntsville president of the state organization characterized this tills convention in Ia his ills opening address as the beginning of a n new epoch of service to agriculture We expect to protect and promote our own business business busi busl- ness Improve rural life Ilfe and cooperate oper co ate atc with any agency that tends to the development of the tue state teaches loyalty and supports the law operation Co-operation is Promised President E. E G G. G Peterson of the Utah Agricultural college told the bureau bureau bu bu- bu reau members the aim of the county agricultural agents agents' was to operate co-operate I with them and assured them that the time state and the nation will work with them in every possible way toward toward toward to to- ward a realization of ot their alms through the Agricultural college and the time federal department of agriculture Dr Peterson discussed the relationShip relationship relation relation- ship of the time county agent to the bureaus bureaus bureaus bu bu- bu- bu and spoke of their mission as one in which the educational element predominates teg Womans Woman's Place Important Mention was made anode time and again by the tile various speakers of the place of women In the bureau organizations showing the general desire of the bureau bureau bureau bu bu- bu- bu reau members to give the farm fann home o It greater cons consideration than ever er be be- fore Emphasis was placed upon the necessIty necessity sity alLy of having the women as active participants in the bureau affairs and int Interests rests Professor Rena B. B Maycock Maycock Maycock May- May cock of the extension division of the Agricultural college said The farm bureaus cannot properly function without women The farmer and are engaged In a business where they are interdependent ent and where they have ha the same end in view Women the spend by far the greater part of the farm tanu Income which t the e man creates and both the man and the woman should see that this expenditure brings to th them m the time health comfort the moral moral moral mor mor- al and spiritual returns which It ItI I should hould Bettering of Business Conditions The bettering of business conditions for forthe the farmer was discussed by J. J Edwar Edward Ed Ed- war warp ward l Taylor commercial agent who spoke of f the time necessity for securing for the farm products producer a n greater share of the price the consumer consumer con con- sumer sumner pays pas for that product It is the aim of the bureau he said to establish adequate distribution facilities ties to handle the products of the I farm to get et the products to the consumer consumer consumer con con- sumer with the least possible expense Inspection System Advocated Mr Taylor likewise presented the the question of standards standards' for foodstuffs saying that Utah farmers should endeavor endeavor en en- deavor to more nearly standardize u their h. h products V in order to save risk and expense to both seller and buyer Th rh The establishment of an Inspection system en would form fonn a par part of the standardizatIon standardization stand stand- I measures that Mr Taylor and other speakers of the day I Ii D. H. H Taylor of Payson secretary secretary- tr treasurer treasur r of the bureau made his Imis annual an annual aim an- nual nual report showing s substantial gains In for the bureau and a a betterment of Its financial condition The question of the time relationships between between be be- tween the banks and the farmers with especial al attention to the time question of ot agricultural credits red Its was discussed by E. E L. L Van Von Meter cashier of the State Bank of Ogden After explaining the meaning of credit In general Mr Van Meter told the tile convention con delegates that In his opinion agri agricultural cultural loans constitute the be best t possible security for a bank Credit he lie said Is based upon the four principal considerations of character capacity capital anti and c collaterals |