Show plute county farm news THE OFFICE OP OF THE COUNTY AGENT hewing hearing held drw county v soil oll conservation conaci vanlou district ray walker coordinator from the state soil boil conservation service bervice and doyle lund of the sevier devler county soil conservation district wore were in Cir circleville cleville friday evening of last week to hold a hearing on the necessity and de sir ability of bf establishing a soil conservation district in pluto plate county twenty farmers from Cir circleville cleville kingston and antimony were present pie sent junction marygale marysville Mary Marys sale ville and greenwich were not represented mr walker carried away with him a picture of the needs tor for the county among them being control ot of flood waters water storage drainage laud land leveling re seeding of range areas development of good soil by af version of water from poorer soil and development of more mora adequate irrigation facilities he declared that the people at the meeting showed a great interest in rectifying rectify ing their common problems ile he said it looked favorable tor for the organization ot of a district providing the state soil conservation committee considered it worthwhile and providing a successful referendum could be obtained A tentative date tor for voting on the question was set tor for about june 20 every land owner or occupier in the county will be notified of the referendum and urged to tast cast a vote on the question regardless gard less of a negative or positive reaction to the idea county counti runners farmers attend dehydration plant meet A meeting of the members mem bera of the utah food products cooperative commonly thought of as the ilia potato dehydration plant at elsinore was well attended by pluto plute county stockholders wednesday n of last week stockholders made up only of potato growers in sevier pluto plute an garfield Gartt eld counties and afta backers of the movement visited the plant at elsinore Els lnore at p ta the plant to is about ready tor for a n trial run to determine imperfections in the machinery machine y in order t that h at every flaw will be eliminated before the plant goes into full operation this coming tall fall the machinery was birgin ally intended to dehydrate dehy diate sweet potatoes and some adjustments need to be made in order to handle irish potatoes following the inspection tour lour of the plant the crowd assembled at the north th ward chapel in monroe for lunch A plate lunch was seved following lunch a meeting was held in which stockholders ant and backers were acquainted with tile the difficulties that had been encountered in constructing the plant A plea was made by D C winget richfield and barlo T luke junction toi for further stock subscription by potato growers it was as pointed out that the plant was la in good financial condition but that additional funds were needed to carry cairy out the trial run rull which will be completed before benoie june 1 funds are also needed for other overhead purposes and for commencing operations this tall fall it was explained that nearly share of stock remains to be sold and that it if the stock is not sold to growers of potatoes potatoe s outside interests were ready to buy uy it it was made known at the meeting that a government contract has been received to process r sufficient potatoes to make pounds of dehydrated product the volume of fresh potatoes needed to make the amount of 0 dehydrated product may be determined ter mined by figuring on a ratio of eight to one approximately ai pounds ot of dehydrated product can be made from pounds of raw potatoes on this basis the contract calls tor for pounds of 0 raw potatoes dairy federation meet bleet iteld held in richfield D L fullmer 0 ot f Cir circleville cleville and max E conrad county agent attended the utah dali dairy federation fedei atton district meeting irl in richfield thursday after afternoon hoon of last week president merrill warnick of 0 pleasant grove presided at the meeting forty people were present pie sent including dairymen daliy men and county agents from seven counties besides a few ew represents tives alyes from daliy dairy processing plants and federal agencies A mr mi benson of the american dairy daily association and professor ta A J morris from tile the utah state agricultural college were also in attendance prof plot morris gave gae an 0 overall over el all picture of the dairy industry in utah talking particularly from the standpoint of processing dairy products mr denson benson presented a plau plan which it la is contemplated will go into operation tor for a two week period in june beg beginning innig on june first the idea he presented ted concerned a mobilization fund for advertising ver Yer of milk and milk products in the united states mr denson benson pointed out that every commercial interest intel est in the country advertises its products pio ducts by every conceivable means ile ha pointed out that tremendous tiemen dous increase in sales of their respective products due to sales promotion pi emotion through advertising mr air benson warned of a slump in prices pi ices on milk and milk pro pio duets ducts after the wartime consumption of milk Is slackened ile he said now is the time to make the nation conscious of the food value alue of milk and milk pro ducts he pointed out that the american dairy daily assoria tl binl I 1 ll 11 already is advertising milk ini competition ath w th arous beverages he said that 18 states have hae gotten behind them in their advertising movement by subscribing to the mobilization I 1 fund the purpose of his visit to utah was to encourage and solicit the he support ot of the state on the project he mentioned that the fund Js raised by a scale oft off on producers checks the scale off amounts to one ona cent per pound of butterfat butter tat for a two week pay period beginning june 1 and running to june 15 mr benson says this amounts to approximately 10 cents per average cow every dairyman la Is urged to give this plan his hii g sup port it Is calculated to provide him better prices for the beat food man can consume |