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Show H Farm Bureau Hears l Report On Irrigation H At Annual Meeting i Reports from committees on irrl-cation, irrl-cation, Mijr beets, livestock, arop pleats, and various other committees wen- fckuures of the morning session t of the Weber County FVirm Hurcau meetlne which took place at Lhc Wtd-oral Wtd-oral building this Honlnc. The rnornJnjf scksIoii was opfnoil ly an iiddiess from Presldeoi J. It. li-us of th- i L r County Farm Buro.i i He .sui'i there is gvaniii reason for iln-, iln-, qBUstence of iii farm bureau loiias thnu there ever-wan beforo In the hi-tory hi-tory of the country. Mr. Hpiih said tho farmers to bp on a CQmpstitva da-sis da-sis with ihe other Industries must organize, or-ganize, if agriculture Is to progress. M K Y ES R PORT. D. I . McKay, chaicman of the committee com-mittee on Irrigation, who Hulunitted the rteporl of this committee, jircaented a resume 'l the work done by the com-, " i Hi report erA a pariod since Juije, 1919, When .mii-i were ftrat: taken towards the croalipn of an Irrl-gailun Irrl-gailun dlstilct, which would BmbrAoeu ' th entire count)', and would he the lueatia of saving farmers .f the com-1 munlty an annual loss, seven years out j of ten Irum 1500,000 to 11,500,000 1 The report showed that water fll-j Uk have been madi- on the Magpie renervoii- on the South fork of the ( j-il-; river, ami on Marab bike Additional rlliuK. nne for 3.'i0 set-unij set-unij fact of water oi Hear river, and a power filing was made for the purpose pur-pose of securing power with which to pump water from othor altes. I IB ITMI'IM. 1 ! ; Mentiun w.'S niaile in ihe report ih.it the st.ito engineer has assured the county additional filings on the NV'eber river.' W ati r nllotmentK made by 1"". Samuel Sam-uel Fortler were certified to the county coun-ty commissioners durlnar the early part f of March, Thaae allotments embraced j 90.000 ncre of land in Weber county, and were made mi H000 linlivldual al- lotments. Further preliminary steps; , wen l.. i i n. such the readjustment f water allotment, and at an . ip -tlon. held August lu, the district was I carried thi-oiiRhout the county by a 00 per ent majority, he said. M VN Ml niM.S III I. II The report shpwad that j'Too was raised and expended for certain Work i preliminary to the election. Thraa hundred and fifty local meeting! were held in connection with the project. in tin. 1 1. uaslon following the read-i" read-i" -t (hi- report a number of nnit-teis nnit-teis not clear lo a number of the representatives praaaot were explained l" Mr M K A rumor to the effect .that $50,00 hud been spent for making filings tii reaarvoir sites was refuted, jthe flgurei ragaMMog th coal of tiiuig jot the v.inou.s sites being o.s follows: Piling on Bear River, MagpU flling. 4 1 : Jlarrli l-ike filing; $ !8J, jpowei filing, H92, Anpouncrm. nis that fisnesmeul on 'ho acre f-et of water allotted eacli land owner would he made to defray the pi ellinlna I epeme.s Weir- iiuile Notwithstanding the foci that the la of the ytate allow 19 us the maximum ii!-.si-H.sment, present Indications arc i h.ii not mpra than fio cents per acre loot of Avater will be asaeaaed against the property owners 01 the county. Mr. McKay waa empbailg in bringing out the point that the property owners own-ers would he assessed upon the actual ai re feii of water al iheir disposal, rather than th( actual acraaga nr an, I in their poaseaalon. SOt I l- '! I I HIS. In the report on social activities, Chairman A. w. Harriott; reported that outlined projects had been com- Jpleted. The projects Included the or- ganiaatlop of a basket ball league, the' holdlnE of an annual i ount- lvarm I Bureau day observance and an annual i excursion. The organisation of a bas- kothatl team and the holding of winter win-ter meetings through the county, to i real.- community spirit, were also Included In-cluded m the report M. P, Brown, chalrnvan of tho can- ninc crops committee, submitted ;( re- uort on canning oropa. The object whs to sal) the canning crop! under a unl-!"rm unl-!"rm price and contract for the entire1 state, and to tabulate the cost of producing pro-ducing canning crops by keeping cost records. The bureau was successful in the ilrst project, having obtained what was; known as the packer's and glower's contract. The contract, which with hi" one slight ihaiig- was thr 1 ! 1 7 -1 S contract written by the Weber county i.irm nureau. was accepted throughout .the slate. The report sets forth that this step m.irkfil the first time In the bbjtory of the si.ite that a uniform price for canning can-ning cropa prevailed throughout the Stdte. The cost of producing canning crops ;wa determined successfully, the report re-port sr-t forth. FIGURES i:i"l I i(s ' Average acreage of tomatoes waa I four acres to a farm The average lyltld was 11 tons per acre and the re-iturn re-iturn on the crop amounted to $li";, per I acre i 'o.Mt of the crop amounted io ft 47 an p.M ;.c-e. showing n profit of $is as the average increase. The average Weld pi peaa was 5.2 acraa. The yield amountMi to about - - '""S per acre. Average returns amounted to $132 4S per acre, while thfl crop cost $110.50 per acre, leaving a profit of $21. 93 or u percentage of 10.04 on the investment. O-OPJ RTTVE ICT1VITIE8 T. It. Jones then guve n report on co-operative activities 01 the bureau Which showed that the bureau mem hers had found that by purchasing coal to carload lots. they would secure their coal at approximately $1.25 lower low-er than the price for which it is of-fered of-fered for sale by local dealers. i' B Pettlgren. chairman of the crops and peat i OfUtnitlce, was not present. A tHhulatlou was pnsentefl, however, showing that the dbltrlbutlon of poison as a mean of controlling rodents, had been very eff.cin. M I Ids ( i il Mill I I ;. T. K. Powell, chairman of the Ar- , Stock committee, gave a report on the effort, of the committee t0 negotiate th sale of market milk at Ogrten and I Improve the quality of the niiik pro- : d need I Imriiig the season, price adjustments were made regarding the sale of mill dealers and producers entering Into an agreement). The report sets forth that milk sold Ion th( Ogden mark. il during 191. v..,-of v..,-of a very poor grade, or the lowest quality produced In the slatr A campaign against milk pmducers waa started which resulted In a num-I num-I her f prosecutions With the Changing Chang-ing of the city health department, so ihat a man recommended h tn. County Farm Bureau whs dealgnated especially for the purpose- of testing milk in the oit) the milk market in ' gden became much bi tter than It had been heretofore, and milk now sold on the local market can be classed as the best In the state, the report claims. COMPARISON madi A comparison of the milk offered for sale on the local market during 1919 and 1 920 is as follow - 1 9 1 9 19 -' ' Average total butterfat . 3.75 4.02 Total solids 12.37 12.33 Dirty milk aamplrs S 1 The report set forth that steps were taken to eliminate the sale of milk on the old basis of quarts and gallons, and a system for selling milk with the Weight of Its actual amount of butter-fa1 butter-fa1 and solids as 'he hida was evolved. This system has not been put into practice, however. |