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Show vice president of the Union v Union Pacific Declares Tanu- en Must Study Operation Costs. The fanners of Utah should tiuly tlit-i i- fanning operations view of elimination uu-x uu-x profitable business, just as the jhnufiu'turer stiulies his costs. jtK-lnrtxl Viee-lhvsiaeut II. M. y-ims of the Union Pacific - Rnilroaa, at the afternoon w ssionof the Utah Agru-ul-II tunl Conference held at the U. t c. July 3ist. -I understand that your Ag 1 ricultural College has worked 1 cut for you farm bookkeeping osteins Vhieh will show you vbich elements of your busi-are busi-are most profitable. Yor. should use these systems on ' vour farms and get a financial picture of your operations. ' ' Other practices advocated by :" Mr. Adams were the introduc- tion of diversified farming, unci the production of concentrated products such as meat una dairy products rather than forage. for-age. Dr. George P. Clements. Manager of the agricultural department de-partment of Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, in an address before the conference said that Utah has great markets mar-kets for her products on tlie Pacific Coast, if she will but develop them. "Up to a few years ago, 1 would have hesitated in advising advis-ing the Utah farmer what to do I with his crop. Today, I can say that your product is as necessary ne-cessary to us as our merchau-), merchau-), dise is to you. Eecent developments develop-ments in high freight rates, high wages for all union labor, competition of areas nearer Utah's old markets, the inabili-i inabili-i ty of Europe to buy, these I factors are combining to force i you to raise for sale, not what you have for years been in the habit of raising but those things needed by the markets around you. The Pacific Islands Is-lands offer your greatest opportunity. op-portunity. This field is just opening up. Two and one half million pounds of butter from this region last year went through the San Francisco port to the Pacific. This is one indication in-dication only of the new trend. What California and the Pacific Pacif-ic need by way of wheat, hides, meats, poultry, and poultry products, butter, cheese and milk, and certain vegetables and fruits, WHICH NOW SHE SHIPS THROUGH UTAH FROM THE EAST OR . XOETH YOU SHOULD PRO-nnmr. PRO-nnmr. twq should be pro duced by carload and train load lots. This means state-wide cooperation co-operation in production, grading grad-ing and storing. The problem is not easy. It means that you must standardize standar-dize your products, a thing which you are now doing. You must store them so you can furnish them when needed. But first you must know what the market is and realize that you can meet it., |