| Show NEW I 1 T F wm hand agricultural news turkeys shipped successfully on last thursday 28 thousand pounds or of turkeys were shipped from elsinore Els lnore through tile the poultry association and consigned to los angeles buyers the prices realized by the local produces is 37 cents per pound which is about 7 cents higher ahli than any quo quotations lations that have ien ben received from local markets inasmuch as this method of handling the turkeys is a new movement people who handled turkeys were not careful in selecting fat ones which were the only ones that would bring the better price however the number of culls were not many and even in that event 32 cents was paid for the poor ones there are still enough turkeys left in this vicinity to load another car tor for the christmus market and the producers are now fattening the turkeys they had left for this sale marketing fat cuttle cattle saturday of last week the farm bureau livestock committee met at the county agents office tor for the purpose of considering the advise ability of 0 pooling the fat stuff and market through one agent during the coming season after the matter vas considered thoroughly it was decided that each local re return to their community and secure the signatures of feeders in their respective communities who are in favor of such a method of marketing g A committee is in session today to take final action with reference to the marketing and if things look favorable for cooperative marketing an agent will be employed to handle this part of the agricultural industry for the coming season investigating poultry Condi conditions dons in california thursday of last week H H metzger poultry project leader departed for california for the purpose of investigating the stock aiom which baby chicks will be produced next neet spring and to place an order for some sixty to seventy thousand thou sand chicks if any good stock and s satisfactory prices can be secured mr air metzger Aletz ger is now in the employ of the poultry association and has been active during the past ten days among poultry growers soliciting orders for baby chicks for spring delivery and just before leaving he had orders for about some sixty odd thousand to be delivered some time in april mr Aletz metzger ger expects to be gone about two weeks and upon his return he will no doubt have a valuable report to make of conditions as he finds them in california county sugar beet mooting A county sugar beet meting was held at richfield Rich neld last wednesday for the purpose of discussing a possible contract for next bear year also to hear a report of W W buchanan who represented sevier county at a recent meeting of the state sugar beet committee and representatives of the utah idaho amalgamated Amalgamate cf and the people sugar company of this state mr air buchanan reported that the sugar officials did not feel justified in offering a much better contract than the one under which beets were grown luring during 1922 the only offer they made was to increase the minimum price per ton of 50 cents after a general discussion among the beet growers from the different sections of the county the following resolution was moved and adopted 1 I move that it be the sense of 0 the sugar beet raisers of sevier county that the state beet committee be Illi informed that we are willing to stand by whatever action they may take relative to the 1923 sugar beet contract and request that definite action be taken not later than january 1 1923 that the members of the sevier county farm bureau sign no contracts until such contracts shall first have been approved by the utah state sugar beet committee and the sevier county sugar beet committee T o in one the international livestock exposition the worlds biggest stock show will be held in chicago december 29 2 9 the fourth annual convention of the american farm bureau federation the worlds biggest g est farmers organization will be held in chicago dec december ember 1114 11 14 reduced rates on all railroads are offered for both events thousands of farmers are planning to attend the two in one 11 |
