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Show waIIeI annual mention Governor George H. Dern will tell of the possibilities for the advancement advance-ment of agriculture in Utah at the annual convention of the Utah State Farm Bureau and its affiliated co-operatives to be held at the Newhouse Hotel, January 20th to 23rd. according to an announcement made by M. S. Winder, secretary of the Farm Bureau. Bu-reau. Among some of the other prominent speakers to address the convention will be Dr. George Thomas, president of the University of Utah; D. W. Aupperle, president of the Colorado Potato Growers' association; Harden Bennion, State Commisioner of Agriculture; Agri-culture; Professor Levi Edgar Young of the University of Utah: Ephraim Bergeson, president of the Utah State Farm Bureau and others. Many of the problems of the farmers farm-ers including taxation, marketing of crops, weed control, farmers investments invest-ments and other matters will be taken up at the various sessions of the convention. con-vention. Each of the six cooperative marketing market-ing associations will have complete I charge of one of the sessions. The home and- community section of the Farm Bureau which is conducted under un-der the direction of the women will have a prominent part in the program. The election of officers of the farm bureau will be held during the afternoon after-noon of the opening day of the convention. con-vention. Several of the cooperative marketing organizations will also elect their officers for 1926. One of the largest crowds ever attending at-tending a convention of the farm bureau bu-reau is expected. From the present indications there will be more than 2000 persons present. This will be a 100 per cent increase over the con' vention of last year. The reasons for the large increase which is expected is said to be due to the activities and accomplishments of the cooperative associations. More than $11,000,000 worth ot farm products were handled by the various cooperative associations associa-tions during 1925. Better prices was received by the farmers through this means, it is said. One of the outstandng features of the convention which no doubt will attract considerable attention will be the display of the Utah seed exhibit which won thirteen out of the fifteen prizes in the alfalfa seed division of the International Hay, Grain and Seed Show held at Chicago in December. Utah was given the credit of raising the best alfalfa in the United States at the show. Dr. George Stewart of the Utah Agriculture College and E. E. Smith, the two men who had charge of the exhibit will be on hand. |