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Show UTAH FARM BUREAU GOfflGJ FRONT So much has been accomplished during the present year in the way of favorable legislation and improved means of marketing the farm products pro-ducts of the state through the efforts of the Utah State Farm Bureau that little trouble is expected in securing the greater part of the 25,000 farmers of Utah as members of the bureau for next year, during the membership drive which will be conducted between be-tween now and January 1st. There is a greater spirit of optimism opti-mism among the farmers of the state at present than has been evidenced for many years, due to the bountious crop, the good prices and the ready markets which have been secured through the activities of the many cooperative co-operative marketing associations of the bureau. At present the farm bureau is taking tak-ing up the fight of preventing the application ap-plication of the western railroads, which asks for a blanket increase of 6 per cent in freight rates on all farm products, from passing the interstate commerce commission. If this increase in-crease should be granted the carriers, it would mean that the farmers would pay an additional $500,000 a year in freight rates, or an increase of $20 a piece for each of the $25,000 farmers farm-ers in the state. Besides putting forth an effort to prevent any increase in the rates on farm products, B. O. Foubert, manager mana-ger of the Merchants and Manufacturers Manufac-turers Traffic Service Bureau who has been appearing before a committee commit-tee of the interstate commerce commission com-mission at a meeting which was recently re-cently conducted at Denver, is attempting at-tempting to secure a decrease on many of the farm products which are shipped out of the state. Utah at the present time Is kept out of much of the Wyoming and North. Dakota teritory by discriminatory discrimin-atory rates, according to some of the evidence presented by Mr. Foubert. It is now possible to ship potatoes from Ogden to Memphis, Tenn., cheaper than they can be shipped from Ogden to Casper, Wyoming. The rate on mixed vegetables from Brig-ham Brig-ham City to Evanston, Wyoming, is 36 cents per hundred pounds, while the rate from Ogden to the same point is 38 cents a hundred pounds, despite the fact the distance is twenty-two miles farther in the first instance. in-stance. Much effort was put forth by tha farm bureau to be prepared to present pre-sent the best evidence at the hearing. Four hundred copies of the brief and exhibits had to be prepared. In each copy there were 110 exhibits or a total to-tal of 5,000 pages of evidence. The membership campaign will be carried into every county in the state during the next month and one half. In many sections the work is under way while other counties are making preparations for the opening of the drive. All of the officers of the state bureau, bu-reau, including Ephraim Bergeson, president, M. S. Winder, executive secretary, Fred Mathews, commercial agent and all other officers and heads of the various co-operative organization organiza-tion will take an active part in the work. Utah county is now under way. A preparatory school for the membership member-ship works was held at the Brigham Young University at which all of the state agricultural officials and officers offi-cers of the state and county bureau spoke. Preparations are being made in Juab county for the opening of the campaign. Fred Mathews has been spending the past several days in Box-elder Box-elder county. Cache county will start its work in a few days and many of the other counties will be under way by the end of this month. |
