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Show Utah Poultry Head Talks Cooperation Organization of national cooperatives coopera-tives along commodity lines, for the control of agricultural production and ;limination of surplus, was advocated at Durham, N. H., by Clyde C. Edmonds, Ed-monds, Salt Lake, general manager of the Utah Poultry Producers' Cooperative Coopera-tive association, in an address before he American Institute of Cooperation nnual meeting, according to dis-jatches. dis-jatches. State-wide producer cooperatives lealing in certain commodities might logically be combined into regional organizations, which in turn could be unified into a national association, Mr. Edmonds suggested. The contemplated effect of such onsolidations would be the stabilization stabiliza-tion of agriculture through a system of orderly production control, creation crea-tion of an orderly system of distribution distri-bution on a natural basis conforming with the law of supply and demand, and an adequate supply of products for all markets, minus the disastrous gluts. (Continued on last page) , Utah Poultry Head Talks Cooperation (Continued from page 1) Manufacturers have learned that it is more profitable to manufacture somewhat in harmony with demand and to make a profit on the operation than to blindly produce beyond reasonable rea-sonable limits; only to find that the cost of goods cannot be realized through their sale, the speaker said, adding that in many respects agriculture agricul-ture has not yet recognized the fact and continues its promiscuous, haphazard, hap-hazard, unregulated production methods. me-thods. ' , Outlining a production program for the poultry industry under present conditions, Mr. Edmonds recommended recommend-ed the rigid culling of all flocks, a check-up of sanitary conditions on the premises, a series of meetings in production pro-duction centers to give instructions on proper poultry farm management, feeding problems, and care of eggs to protect quality. Sanitation on poultry farms was said to be vitally important as poultry poul-try diseases are readily transmitted by cats, dpgs, birds, flies, etc., and some types of diseases are even carried car-ried fr.om coop to coop pn a person's shoes. 'Proper feeding, lighting and ventilation tend to increase the health of the flocks and percentage of production, pro-duction, while caring for the product after it is produced minimizes, deter-, ioration in quality and thereby increases in-creases the possibility of getting a better price. |