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Show FARM BUREAU INTO TALK C. E. Gunnels Will Address State Meeting to Be Held in Salt Lake That C. B Gunnels, former aKit-.-nt rhicf of western extension wbrk, I department of agriculture who l now assistant secretary of the American' I farm Vmrtfui federation, will adlre a meeting i" I hi M m S.. I i . r . sunn. was Information given out yesterday w. p Thomas. Weber county agri- , ' cultural agent. Mi- Gunnels visited ppterday at ttv-;l"tih ttv-;l"tih Agricultural college ,t Logan! land was in conference with Dr 1-. J Bvana of the U- A, C. extension db i-I i-I sion. ! Mr Thomas said that all members of the State farm bureau in Weber County, 900 In number. WSTC alSO i members of the national organization.; He a1d that .f t too f.irincrs in We. : brr county. 900 belonged to the counts farm bureau Thllty-tWO states have taken up the ' national farm bureau movement, and I the national enrollment Is approxl- mately OO.OOO, according to Mr. Gun-I Gun-I nel. I Matters of cooperation nnd metho'l Of developing the farm bureau move- j ment will bo taken up at the Salt i i Lake meeting. The principle purpose of the feder-1 ation is to act as a clearing house for! I all farm problems. There are now being established separat" and di- I tinct bureaus in the federation for special problems There are: The bu- i reau of farm economies and statistics. j bureau of transportation, bureau of ' trades relations and the bureau of eo- i I operation and legislation. Ea?h hu-1 reau will act in it-? particular field to make all information on the subject available for the use of the farmers j The economic situation and statistics concerning crops nnd production will' be given out by tho bureau of economics econ-omics rnd statistics Rates and ways of transportation come tinder the second sec-ond bureau, while the other two take up the fields of selling and buying and all laws that are enacted coer-intr coer-intr the field of agriculture. The ln- ' formation thus accumulated must necessarily have a powerful Influence! i for more lntellleent farming |