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Show OGDEN WEST'S FARM CENTER This City Wlil Be Main' Distributing Point, Dr. i Wanless Asserts That Ogden Is destined, becauso of- its geographical location, to become the distributing point of the inter- mountain country of agricultural product pro-duct and that the day would come when along the railroad tjgcks there would be erected largo warehouses, owned and managed by and in the Interests ot the farmers was the state- Diem made Saturday atternoon by Dr. W. L. Wanless, director of the school ot commerce and business admlnWra- ' tion of the L'tah Agricultural college. Dr. IWanlesa was the principal speaker before the meeting of potato ' growers ot Web6r county hold at the federal building. The civil service ex- amlnatlon hail was crowded by those 1 In attendance and S large numher at ' In the hallway outside during the ml-dre: ml-dre: : . At the conclusion of the address the meeting way thrown open to dls- cuaslon of the various phases relative to tho marketing on a co-operative plan ot potato a sKKTt IllCs Ft ONOMIC FACTORS. In his Introduction Dr. Wanlces Sketched brlef the economic factors that have to do with the marketing of potatoes from the time they are produced pro-duced at the farm until they reach the ultimate consumer. He called attention to thc need of standardization and grading and tOld of having seen carloads of potatoes that had been shipped Into hlcago ill. by fanners that had paid no attention at-tention to grading their product. The potatoes had to be sorted in tho rail- road yards at considerable expense, he said, with the result that farmers were I forced to pay long freight hauls on j potatoes that in realitv were rr nuls- , once ami had to be tin-own out of the product that was finally placed on the market, WAREHOUSES N EEDED. Ho also spoke of the need of ware-houses ware-houses at the different points of the . transportation system, thc financing and the sales function. Aftor discussing those portions of the subject briefly he raid that there were some things that the farmers could not bo expected to do but that thero were other things that they could do by organized effort better than anyone else could do thorn and more economically. He then took up the subject, of standardization ami grading and tolu of how this could be accomplished. I He defined value which he said would j result from grading and which he defined as a relationship existing be- i twecn the commodities and the public. pub-lic. The old idea, he said, that value was measured by the amount of la- : bor expended on a product was not I tho idea prevalent now. Grading of I potatoes so that a better relationship WOUld be established between the! graded potatoes and the buying public would result In thc greater value, he said. He also pointed out that by organ-' lzed effort tho farmers could take! advantage of the law of increasing returns re-turns which he said meant the waving that could be maintained by larger ncale production and larger scale marketing. In illustrating this idea he called attention to what had been accomplished along this line by such large corporations aa the United States ytcel and other similar corporations, cor-porations, whose success, he said, de-ponded de-ponded upon their doing business on the largest poesible scale with the! minimum outlay of capital and receiving receiv-ing the maximum return. Tho present period of depression through which the country was pass- i ing. Ire said, was not alarming and should be met with optimism and more confidence. It was but ono of 10 or 12 through Vfhich the country! had passed since 1782 he said and was! not to be compared to the panii of 1803 which was much worse because it was a panic of money and credit. WATCH REPORTS. He advised the farmers to take advantage ad-vantage of the market reports put out 1 by the bureau of markets und crop estimates at Washington,, of which bureau he is the state representative and promised them any possible aid he oould glvo them along that lino. H. J. Webb, state crop pest Inspector, Inspec-tor, was the principal speaker during the forenoon session. Ho also dls- I cussed the standardization and grading grad-ing of potatoes and called the attention atten-tion of the farmors to tho state hav- j Ing adopted the United States grades, j The meeting was held under the ' auspices of the Weber County Farm bureau. |