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Show "jHalf Million Loan Is ; Boon to Poultry men A commodity loan of $500,000 was 1 made Thursday of last week by the 8 Berkeley Intermediate Credit bank to the Utah Poultry Producers' asso- ' ciation of Salt Lake City, to enable ' that marketing cooperative of 6,000 " members to carry their eggs in storage stor-age for fall sales. The loan was se-! se-! cured by warehouse receipts from storage plants in Chicago, Buffalo f and Xew York, f , The loan negotiations which were t closed by Clyde C. Edmonds, Salt - Lake City, manager of the coopera- tive, will have significance for all ! poultry cooperatives inasmuch as it , marks a new policy on the part of the r Intermediate Credit bank. With the i sanction of the Intermediate Credit ; commissioner, George M. Brennan, of I the Farm Credit administration at ! Washington, for the first time eggs 1 have been included in the farm com-' com-' modities handled by cooperative as-' as-' sociations upon which the interme-! interme-! diate credit banks can make loans. :, The interest rate of such banks is now 2 per cent, which is considerably consider-ably lower than poultry producers have had to pay "in the past for stor- age facilities. i |