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Show Poultrymen to Discuss Vital Topics at Meet Problems facing Utah's poultry industry and vitally affecting every individual engaged will be discussed discus-sed and solutions offered, at the annual convention - of the Utah Poultry Producers' Cooperative association, as-sociation, to be heia January 19 to 21 at the Newhouse hotel in Salt Lake. Because of the importance of the meeting and the nature of lho business to be considered, every poultryman in Utah who can possibly pos-sibly do so is urged to attend tho sessions. The poultry industry, like prac-tically prac-tically all others, is facing a crisis J y T brought about by general depres-I depres-I j T sion and low prices; many Utah V, ' producers undoubtedly entertain f " fears for the future. The foremost fore-most poultry authorities in this section of the country have besn engaged to express their views on future prospects and solutions for existing problems during the annual an-nual meeting. At least several hundred poultry men will be present. pres-ent. The convention will open Monday, Mon-day, January 19, with the first day devoted to turkey sessions und?r direction of the Utah Turkey Growers' association. .The sessions for the egg and cnicxen men will begin Tuesday at 9 a. m. Community Com-munity singing under E. J. Kirkham Kirk-ham and selections oy the Spring-ville Spring-ville quartet are first on the program. pro-gram. Joseph Anderson of Lehi, presi dent of the Utah Poultry Produe-C Produe-C ers' Cooperative association, will preside at the meeting. He will ' S 'open the business with an address 7 of welcome and the president's an-' an-' nual address. '. Clyde C. Edmonds, general manager man-ager of the association, headquarters headquar-ters at Salt Lake, will present his annual report including a discussion discus-sion of the association's activities during the past year and prospects for 1931. Musical numbers ar-l ar-l anged by Mr. Kirkham will follow. fol-low. The poultry disease situation In Utah will be discussed by Dr. Hugh Hurst, Salt Lake, one of the association's chier poultry veterinarians, veterin-arians, and then the meeting will :.djourn to visit the association's new $225,000 central warehouse, office building and egg plant, near-:;ng near-:;ng completion in Salt Lake. Free transportation will be furnished convention delegates. Returning to the hotel, the business bus-iness meetings will reconvene at 2:30 P. M., with Mr. Kirkham directing di-recting the singing of an old thus rong and then a musical number from Draper. Benjamin Brown, director ol markets for the association with headquarters in New York City, ", 1 vho is coming to Utah expressh " k I01' tne meeting, will give an ad-'r ad-'r ctress. Mr. Brown is expected to ; recount the association's market- ling experiences in the east during .the past year-, tell of the boycott tun Utah eggs attempted by New York "racketeers" and "gangste"s" ivnd explain the advantages of the direct sales connection formed between be-tween the Utah poultry society and the Jewish Grocers' association a huge organization of over 1,000 chain store units. Expected market mar-ket trends for 1931 will also be discussed by Mr. Brown. After an address by Carl Frisoh-Knicht, Frisoh-Knicht, an expert poultryman. a picture show will be enjoyed and then the local presidents and state veterinarians will hold separate meetings. Community singing and a musical musi-cal number by the Riverton local will open the Wednesday morning session, January 21, foUowed by an address from Byron Alder, professor profes-sor and poultry expert at the Utah .State Agricultural college. Dr. U. j T. Jones, veterinarian, and E. G. X r Peterson of the U. S. A. C, are the .other speakers for the morning r session. Dr. Pren Moore, veterinarian; a representative of the Utah State Farm Bureau, and Harden Ben-nlon, Ben-nlon, state commissioer of agriculture, agricul-ture, will speaJc at the Wednesday afternoon meeting. The convention conven-tion will close with the annual election el-ection of directors. |