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Show WHY DO FARMERS JRGANIZE? Salt Iuko City, May 19 PromptoJ by tho rapid growth of tho farm bur-onu bur-onu movement throughout tho nation, a nowspnper In ono of tho promlnontl enstern cltlos recently Instituted nl questionnaire on this subject: "Why do farmers organise?" Somo or tho answers, according to reports received receiv-ed by tho Utah 8tato Farm Dureau, are: A farmer cannot carry enough hides across tho street from his wngon to tho Btoro to pny for a pair or good shoes. A South Dakota farnior may get 28 or 35 conts for his corn. It costs that much to ship tho corn to tho processing proces-sing mills In Now York. According to tho most conservative figures tho corn cost tho farmer from 7K cents to a dollar a bushel to produce A fannor at Iowa City, Iowa, shipped ship-ped a carlood of hay to St. Ixuls. Ho got $82.C1 for It. Tho freight and other chargos totallod $92.13. Commenting on somo of tho answers ans-wers quoted abovo and also on tho grain marketing movement Instituted by tho farm bureau, tho Philadelphia Public Ledger had this to say In an editorial way: "Tho report of tho grain markotlng commltteo of tho American Farm nu-, rcau Federation has been made and adopted. Thcro Is nothing radical, PolshovlHtlo or dangerous nbout It. It strikes, or will strike, a terrible blow to grain oxchangos and to middlemen; mid-dlemen; but tho farnior Insists that ho should havo moro than thirty-four cents of tho consumer's dollar and that tho exchanges and tho middlemen middle-men must take less. It Is the sanest end most ambitious effort that tho farmer has mado for himself." Omcors of tho Utah Stato Farm Bureau Bu-reau contend thoro aro equally striking strik-ing examples In this state of why farmers should organize |