Show A UNION the editor of the HERLD has been visited by a number of weber county farmers who complain bitterly and we believe justly about the arbitrary manner in which the market prices of certain products arc manipulated by buyers middle men or commission merchants la ogden these hardworking farmers further allege that there ia a disposition among produce dealbera in this city to combine to depress market values so that the producer cannot get a fair price for what he has to sell to combat this combination the farmers of this county are considering the advisability of forming a go operative union in plain city and pleasant view the farmers have already organized a society with the best results members of these local unions agree with each other that they will not i sell their produce for less that a fixed rate per pound or per bushel As a consequence they haac lately been able to command from buyers in ogdan five cents more per buchel for their potatoes than these same boyera would pay producers who were not members of that anlon from this single fact one of the advantages of operation cooperation co among the farmers ia clearly illustrated the hardworking hard working industrious imen who till the soil are certainly entitled to protection fron the un anit impositions of produce dealers it is probable that a convention delegates representing the farmers of each settlement in weber county will soon convene ia this city to jearm a general county organization somewhat after tho plan of the cooperative associations of plain city and pleasant view we shall aake great interest in thin move farmers can depend upon the friendly offices of the editor of this paper |