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Show SEES NEW ERA FOR fARWIERS President McKay Delivers Address Ad-dress at Farm Bureau Convention Denouncing a widespread hclief that hardships of the past season may be the beginning of bankruptcy of og.i-CUltUre, og.i-CUltUre, and predicting that the dlifl-CUltleS dlifl-CUltleS of last season will but paVS the Way for B new era in the agricultural Industry In the United States D. T. McKay of Huntsville, president of th Utah state Farm bureau, addressed 500 members of the organiz.it Ion at the annual convention, held at the Hotel Utah yesterday morning. STR1 m i in N BOD1 "The chief concern of the organization." organiza-tion." he stated, "would he tho strengthening ni the organization by having within lis fold as large a percentage per-centage of the farmers of the si lis ts possible, gaining their support, financial and moral, and seeking their council in the solution of problems which lie ahead. " "It has taken the full force of the present shock lo awaken us to a realization real-ization of the fact that the methods of our grandfathers are out of date While we have Improved wonderfully In the matter of production In the last few yeans, but little attention has bean paid to the matter of distribution. "Farming is the ..niy business i know of that buys at the seller's price and sells at the buyer's price. Without With-out taking thought It-, products have are wanted least nd other agencies art left tc- store and dole them out as I needed, reaping a rich harvest In con-! con-! sequence "The first great step Is In the matter mat-ter of distribution A leaf can prrflta-My prrflta-My he taken out of the hook of ,any of the big corporations with respect to 'the marketing of their products. They nave found it profitable to keep con-jtroi con-jtroi of the articles through the selling j agencies, cutting out lost motion, presenting' pre-senting' market gluts and preventing, iiit the same time, speculation by middlemen. mid-dlemen. M i IN DL'STRY TO Bl M l 1 1 1 "Jf agriculture can he put upon a sound basis, with Just profits lurge 'enough 10 supple more than a mere 'existence every other line of lndustrv I Will feel the Impulse of new activity. Contentment will abide on the farm, , food will he produced in abundance. nw homes will be built, equipped with ! modern conveniences, and music. hooks, education and refinement will juc as accessible In rural communities atl in urban centers" ' President McKaj then told the convention con-vention of the action of the executive ! committee 1 hoard of directors) at Its meeting held an hour before the contention con-tention opened. At this executive ses-iSlon ses-iSlon a decision was reached to virtually virtual-ly double the membership fees, .. charge of $1'.50 for each s'.ati membership mem-bership .'hi, a suggestion of a like I amount fpr each ceuntj membership. This precipitated a warm and lively discussion, opposition to flip raise he-ling he-ling led by Farley 1 '.lover of the Salt ' J 1 1 . county unit. Who predicted that ,t OUhl eost (he countv about ho per I cent of Its membership. FEES RAISED. 1 J. s. BsSlan, representing the Gunnl- ison bureau, forcibly replied, declaring thai the members who opposed such I an Increase in dues were exhibiting I the spirit of 'pikers." as it WSJ through ih Influence of Hie bureau i thnt the farmers received 112 ton fnr their beets, Instead i 18.50 or $9.1 After a dozen or mom meihbsra had lapokon )ro and on on th matter the Icxcciitlvo committee was on motion, j unanimously ustalned In its action. Aposile Anthony W lvms, president presi-dent oi the board of trustees of the I'ttih AerlcnlUiral lolh;,.-, w.is thol Bpsaiker at the nootfday luncheon hi Idi tin the banquet room of tlx hotel and attended i ;irout io delegates. Yesterday's session of the. convention conven-tion was declared highly UCCOSSful. The attendanoi vo.s greater than aVer before. Various singles of bunking, road building taxation, legislation and marketing were dlsrus-sed, while the ! speakers also emphasised the need of agriculture In being placed upon a bet-jtcr bet-jtcr btislness bjLsis. It Kl.K TAIJCS Joel r:. Parrlsh, cashier of the Farmers' State bank of Woods Cross, , told the convention that "under pres-, pres-, ent conditions the bank represents I b keystone of the arch of c ommerce and J 1 1n- farmers the sources of the Stream lot business Whicn flows through the I 'arch." He went on to point out the Importance- of co-operation and mutual confidence on ll'e part of farmers and !j bankers, charact i i::ln;r the two ;is the IjmQSt Important (lenient., in Hie coun-, coun-, try. former Governor illlain Spry (old the convention that next to taxation, and ranking with it. the iiue.stlon of road building was of paramount intcr- lo lb- farmers. In his discussion of road problems he urged that the i XdrmerS advocate policy of re- trenchment In road building ss one of j the eoonomii necessities of t tie times. Twelve committee meetings h-id hist night concent r;i ted thf Interests of In-' dividual units of farming In tho state and the discussions held began to Qlar-if Qlar-if opinion which the entire convenl ,tli pass upon when the committees 'present their reports nnd resolutions tomorrow evening. |