Show UTAH fARM BUREAU COMING TO fRONT So much has been accomplished during the present year in the way of favorable legislation and improved means of marketing the farm products products products pro pro- ducts state slate through the efforts effort of the Utah State Farm Bureau Dureau that little trouble Is I. expected in securing th the greater creater part of ot the farmers of ot Utah as al members of the bureau for next ye year r during the membership drive which will be conducted between between between be be- tween now and January 1st hi There is la a greater spirit of optImism optimism among the farmers of the state at present than has been evidenced for many years due to the crop the good prices and the ready markets which have been secured through the activities of ot the many cooperative COo co operative marketing associations associations' of ot the bureau At present the farm bureau is taking tak tat fag ing up the up-the the fight tight of preventing the application ap application ap- ap of ot the western railroads which asks for a blanket increase of I 6 E per cent in freight rates on all farm I products from passing the Interstate commerce commission If this 1 In crease should be granted the tile carriers It would mean that the farmers would pay an additional a year in freight rates or an increase of 20 a piece for each of ot the farmers farmers farm farm- ers era In the state Besides putting forth an effort to prevent any Increase In the rates on farm products E. E O. O Foubert manager mana mans ger of ot the Merchants and Manufacturers Manufacturers Manufacturers Traffic Service Bureau who has been appearing before a commit commit- committee committee tee of ot the interstate commerce commission com com- mission at a meeting which was re recently conducted at Denver is attempting at at- attempting tempting to secure a decrease on many of ot the farm products which are shipped out of the state Utah at the present time is kept kepi d out of much of the the- Wyoming and North Dakota by discriminatory story atory rates according to some of the th e evidence presented by Mr Foubert L It is now possible to ship potatoes potatoe s from Ogden to Memphis Tenn cheaper than they can be shipped d from Ogden to Casper Wyoming The Th e rate on mixed vegetables from Brigham Brigham Brig Brig- ham barn City to Evanston Wyoming 1 is e scents cents cents per hundred pounds while whit e the the tho rate from Ogden to the same point Is 2 38 cents a fJ hundred pounds despite tb the distance is ty-two ty miles mlle J farther farther In the first In In- stance Much effort was put forth by th the farm bureau to be prepared to to present present pre pre- sent the best evidence at t the hearing Four hundred copies of the brief and exhibits had to be prepared In each copy there were exhibits or a total total to to- total tal of of pages of evidence The membership m ber campaign will wilt be carried into every county in the state during the next month and one half In many many sections the work Is under underway underway underway way while other counties are are making preparations for the opening of ot the drive All of the officers of the state bureau bu his reau reau including Ephraim Bergeson president M. M S. S Winder executive secretary Fred Mathews commercial agent and all other officers and heads of the various operative co-operative organization tion will wilt take an active part In the work Utah county COUlty is fa now under way A preparatory school for the membership member member- ship works was held at the Brigham Young University at which all of ot the state agricultural officials and officers off I. I cers cars of the state and county bureau spoke Preparations are being made in Juab county for the opening of the campaign Fred Mathews has been spending the past several days in Boxelder Box Box- elder eider county Cache county will start its work in a slew few days and many of the other counties will wilt be under wayby warby way wa-r wayby by the end of ot this month |