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Show UTAH HOLDS FIRST PLACE IN MARKETING W ASHINGTON. Feb. 25. Utah , I held first place In cooperative house-; hold marketing dining the last fiscal year. This work as organized by the j home-demonstration agents, super-' j vised by the United Slates department depart-ment of agriculture and the 8ta(, agricultural college, bus proved very popular with the women of the atati in on.- Utah i ounty ax,ty-suc local leader.-, assisted by the home-demonstration agent, m ule surveys of textile tex-tile .standards and of the durabilltv and service of various pieces of household house-hold equipment. After the lot al groups of wemeii ha.i completed a stud, of the material and articles. tbt, pooled their orders and placed them with local merchants or wholesale whole-sale dealers As a result, a total sav-' sav-' lug of 3.1 per cent was mnde on all I mono) expended on household sup-1 j i 1 1 r i and equipment. Another encouraging result of this ; piece of work is that' many merchants have been Induced to carry a better ! grade of goods to meet Improved and ' 'more critical demands. One local merchant Is eald to have stated that the si.-indard of his bulne.-s had been raised BO per rent by the Intelligent buying of the women. |