Show EVADE TRIBUTE B UTE TO MIDDLEMAN Object of Move Started By Salt Lake County Horticultural Horticultural Horticultural tural Society BAND GROWERS TOGETHER Hope to Sell at Higher Prices While Consumer Will Pay Less Less' LessA I. I A call has hap b hon hen on I issued U by N. N N. N fly By- or secretary tar of oC tho the Salt CaIro Lako County Count Horticultural society for rot a l meeting of oC nil all the tho growers of or farm tarm arm products to meet met Saturday afternoon at tt o'clock in tho the county count and anti city building bl for Cor tho the o of forming a n. farmers farmers' Q association All 11 growers o 01 fruit and farm arm products p In the tho county nr are urged to attend If Jr th hi n association I is formed formed- It will have ha for rr Its object I tin ho selling o of fruit it ml farm lorm products direct to I ConR consumers rs In Snit Salt I I. ke independent of time tho mid 1 dle illo mon men It Is held hell such n a course e will willlie he lie of mutual I benefit to the grower grover anti and consumer r It hi has been the tho understanding for tor many months that tho the growers of at Salt SnIt Lake Lako Tn 1 cO county are arp not satisfied with wiLl the tho prices J obtaining through uAn tho the middle lp men It has been IHen alleged man many times that It was as more moro for r the growers groverS to ship their products than to to soil to middle men min In Salt J It Lake Some Sonie of or the growers gri feel fe that time till prices paid paM to them have lune not been at nt nil alt In keeping with time the prices finally II by the tho consumer arid and that the tho middle mon men not tile the growers have made the he profits profits' It Is the tho understanding understand tug ing In that time the grower rr er In 11 selling direct to the consumer will get gret a n. price In adVance advance ad art- vance vanco of that that- by tho the middle middlemen men muon and nt at the same tune the tito consumer consumer con con- sumer will pay par a n price prier under tinder prices I have ha prevailed pr for fruits and ala farm products Just what hat the th growers will do O remains re- re mains to 0 he developed at tho the meeting It is expected there tho will be bc n a largo large and antI representative gathering or of farmers farm farm- ers pms PIS produce p men Inen and fruit growers of the the count county pr present s nt Saturday The Tho fact tact the tho farmers of or Salt Rait Tal Lake county nr are consIdering the tho proposition of 01 selling direct ct to the consumer anti and antior or of forming an un assocIation for tor that purpose purpose pur pur- pose poso Is 18 directly lit iii line lino with what has hus husI I been r n done Jon In Ill man many states state The TIme Farmers Farmers' co operative anti and E Educational Edu u- u Union or America which has hasa a a. grip on Texas Arkansas Mississippi Missouri Illinois and other states s. s has uris even en gone so IO far Car as to fix lix the minimum price on farm arm products The TIle national convention lon of oC the tho armors union was held hold at nt Little tAttle Rock flock 11 Ark on September T 3 1 i and ami 5 S and minimum minimum- prices wp were fixed on mn many n of t the hl products pro ducts of ot time the soil soli Wheat lien t was ns At 1 a n hu bushel hJ corn at 10 ift cents cents and cotton cotton cot cot- ton at nt 15 Hi cents a pound In some Home of or orthe the slates states named ll great groat warehouses Be have Q b been on hullt by p tlc o r farmers rm rM and the he products product 1011 until the Iho ii tOn y H j prices prIce fixed Ih lii Kentucky tho time tobacco growers row have havo formed an association for the purpose of or dealing direct with tho men mea who manufacture cigars and smoking and anil chewing tobaccos In the tho apple growing sections of north Arkansas and southern Missouri I growers have stored their U products with tho time n a of going direct Into the tho marl markets tR during the holidays nys In all the states named the rs c contend con n- n tend it i is both holh Ten reasonable and just that the time grower g obtain a n. profit profit- In figuring ti the profit tho the farmer gives giveR himself lt a R. surplus S after he ht has counted tho the cost of or the tIme land labor taxes anti and other ex cx expenses |