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Show FARM BUREAU 7000 STRONG President Bergeson Says Membership to Reach 10,000 By June (Special Dispatch ) SALT LAKE. Feb. II. Contending ) that membership his gone forward In Utah until one out of every thre farmers in tho state is how a member of the farm bureau Ephrnlm Her- geson, president of tho 1 tab State, Form bureau, submitted n report to the American Farm Bureau federation federa-tion today showing approximately 7000 organised farmers. The MTnfl official of-ficial also predicted for the benefit of the national organization that by June X of this year th" 1'tnh member-Ship member-Ship would reach 10 00n, which mMlll one member In approximately every two farmers, according to the census reports of 1920 RJ ( OG lllnN EN Widespread recognition that has been given to the farm bureau mm -mint In m:iny ways during the past year ani ei oompliinments of the agricultural ag-ricultural blue In congress are believed DJ Mr Hergeson to be largely reflpOP--111. for the keen interest shown In the organization In Utah. The deflation de-flation of wartime, prices, which sent farm products to itarDHnkfUpt y levels, Is nlso declared by the farm bureau official to hive awakened farmers and livestoc k men in general to th need of co-operative action. "Organisation work In Utah has Kono beyond Ihe propped vtHge." Mr. EMrfMOfl aid' !n his statement for-wurded for-wurded today to the national farm tmreai orga nutation ne;,iiiiarier in OhlCafOi " u Ranlznt Ion In this state is a reality In which records pr.c that our membership has already been doubled ovor that Of last year and at un increased membership fee and on a throe-year basis. TO HUM RATIO "This means that one out of every three farmers in thi state Is a farm bureau member Wo have a good reason to believe tint by June 1 we will raise this ration to 50 per cent with over 10,000 members "The results to date may be Inrgely Credited to the work of an efficient organize!- sent to us by the American Farm Bureau federation but we do not expect to drop organization work even after every loiintv in the state has been organized." President Bergeson also stitcd that In the campaign which in been gains ga-ins on for the past three month So- ' H r county has established sornethlnc of a record with a membership In- . create of 750 per cent over last year. In 1921 that county had es.i than) 100 members, according to the farm bureau official while to dite it has reported 639 members and expects to eventually go to 800. t m; now dfd oi t So far as Individual counties are concerned Mi. Ueitcsun reports Din Utah county with the largest farm population In the state has 16imi farm bureau members for this and two succeeding years, which mentis that Cache county. former'. highest in the farm bureau movement has been I crowded out of tho top position. Mr. Bergeson returned to Salt Iake today after opening: :i farm bureau I membership drive at Tooele. John V j Burton,' l'tah representative on the executive board of the American Farm Bureau federation1, was the principal speaker at a meeting in He-bcr He-bcr City today which opened a drive in Wasatch county Mr Burton encs to Price, Carbon county, on Monday and to Beaver county on Wedncsdav Other counties are asking the stare organization for speakers and team leaders, according to Mi. Bergeson, end t.heso are being furnished as fn j as available. |