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Show Poultrymen To Get Market Reports by Air Plans for the construction of a large radio broadcasting station by the Utah Poultry Producers Cooperative Co-operative Association, an affiliation of the Utah Farm Bureau Federa- ticn, to serve members and f ur-tlier ur-tlier the cause of organized agriculture, agri-culture, were announced recently j by Clyde C. Edmonds, general man-' man-' a;,'er of the association. Petition for authority to operate I the proposed station is now before the federal radio commission at Washington, D. C. The station will be erected immediately following follow-ing favorable action by the commission. com-mission. It is understood that this is the first time a cooperative marketing organization has undertaken to utilize the readio in its service to members and to all farmers. Agriculture in Utah and most ol the west has never had an official instrument through which it could picture its struggle for a fair existence ex-istence before the public. One of the principal functions of the proposed pro-posed poultry association's radio is to sponsora griculture's cause and afford a medium of disseminating general farm information Association members will be given ard po'i'.lrv market statistics and market trends at regular and frequent intervals. Officials be-leve be-leve that it will be of great value in furthering service to this state's 6,000 commercial poultry men, and thus prove another progressive move tc.waitis perfection in cooperative; marketing. If the requested permission is granted ty the federal commission the radio station will be made an integral part of the association's new headquarters now under construction con-struction m Salt Lake. |