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Show Sanpete County Organizes For Emergency Feed Sanpete (bounty Feed Emergency Emer-gency committee is now organized organ-ized to assist in getting car lots of hay through the Emergency Feed Program, according to Russell Rus-sell K. Keetch, county agent. The various agricultural organizations orga-nizations in the county are cooperating co-operating in this matter, and they are: Richard Jensen, Manti, representative of the Sanpete Dairy Association, will take orders or-ders from Sterling and Manti; P. M. Sorenson, Centerfield, representative rep-resentative of the Sanpete Dairy Association, will take orders from all of Gunnison Stake; Wil-lard Wil-lard Jensen, Ephraim, Sanpete Dairy Co-op representative, and Clayton Peterson, Ephraim, Farm Bureau representative, will take orders from Ephraim; Ralph Blackham, Moroni, managei Moroni Feed Co-op, will take orders or-ders from Moroni, Wales, Chester, Ches-ter, and Fountain Green; Lionel Peterson, Mt. Pleasant, president of. the Manti Sheep & Wool Growers' Association, will take orders from Mt. Pleasant; Irvin Bench, Fairview, representative of the Utah Poultry Association, and Ted Mower, Fairview, representative rep-resentative of the Dairy Association, Associ-ation, will take orders for Fair-view; Fair-view; Vivian Larsen, Spring City representative of the County Cattle Cat-tle Associaton will take orders for Spring City. The price of hay in carload lots is $40 per ton, Mr. Keetch said. In less than carload lots the committee has set the price at $42 in order to stand the shortages which might occur in these shipments. Most of these organizations have no finances to carry the program. They are requesting that stockmen placing their orders for less than carlioad lots give checks to cover the orders. A number of sheep and cattlemen cat-tlemen are taking care of their own feed needs by ordering carload car-load lots. This committee is for the purpose of pooling orders to take care of needs of small operators, the county agent explained. ex-plained. County Agent's office has prepared circular letters which were sent out to a large mailing list encouraging everyone to stretch their hay and straw supplies just as far as possible and encouraging the feeding of grain, cottonseed cake, and commercial pellets. |