The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-23
PULL OUT STINGER
Farmers Congress Has Plan to
Fix the Beef Trust.
Cure All the Meats for Home
Consumption.
SEND REST TO AGENTS
Pay Nothing to Commission Men
Who Control StOckyards.
Cooperative Selling Agents to
Dispose Of Fruit.
SEND REST TO AGENTS

ing place for the next uduoIlat SsSslOH
Of the Farmers congress in 1907 a
movement to declare for. Topeka is on
foot and local interests are working
strongly to this end.
The singer in the beef trust is going
to be drawn provided the plans and
recommendations made by the Farm
! ers congress reach consummation
Eure your meats for home consump-
tion. ship through county agents and
to terminal commission agents who
shall be members of the cooperative
eties-these are features which VIII
lead to securing better prices for cattle
than can now be secured through the
commission firms operating at packing
centers.
The business of the cattle commits
sion firm is not the only one to suffer
for the fruit growers plan to reap
part Of the reward which is now going
TO the commission fruit firms by estao-
fishing cooperative agents and Irult
warehouses in the large cities immedi-
ate to fruit districts.
Fruit commission firms and cattle
commission firms presented its two
horns in the discussion held in the
morning session of the congress and
both were firmly grasped and pinioned.
AS a relief from the arbitrary fixing
OF prices for meat which has worked to
the injury Of both consumer and pro-
suggested that the cattlemen in each
county get together appoint an agent
as their representative in that county
through whom shipments would be
made to an agent at the terminal
pOint-the latter to be a member of
the cooperative society. The private
commission firms, the committee de-
clares, are resulting in the deprivation
Of legitimate margin of profit and in
some instances less than the actual
nF f4r0dIIrffnn The efforts n the
United States government in alienation
have been barren of results is the fur
ther declaration and the only effectual
~emedy lies with the producers and
consumers
The fruit commission man in the
south seems to be the bogey man for
the fruit growers. just as his compeer,
the cattle commission man of the north,
is to the cattleman-
We raised s500.O00 worth of peaches
In my state alone last year. We send
them to the markets and trust it to the
honesty Of the commission men and
they grow wealthy on it," said G. NJ
Davis of Georgia we also raised 81,
100000 worth of melons last year in our
state. Crates upon crates of fruit lie
there with the world wanting it. We
want to get it to the markets however
without making the commission men
rich.
The commission men are in the busi-
ness 10 MAKE c5 lllNtA IlOlEg d. DDSol=
bic as quick as posi- ible-this seemed to
be the cleaning of the experience made
by the fruit growers as they related
what they had met up with in market
ing.
one man said: sfWe want to have
some agent situated so that we won't
ship to one market when the market is
already over crowded there; we want
to have some one keep US posted as to
what is the best market Nor do we
want to have some one to tell US to ship
in baskets and then afterwards tell US
there was no market for basket trade
and probably be compelled to put up
the freight charges back"
Some of the commission men are
honest. I know" said another. But
the majority of these commission men
are cut throats."
The trouble Of the fruit growers will
never be solved thundered James But
Ter. suntn you have your own men and
your own houses Men who are in SYM
pathy with you, who win cooperate
B. F. Parker. however. did not be
lieve that the cooperative selling
agents were necessary to get rid of the
fruit crop. The cooperative canneries
viii take care of that claimed Parker.
whenever you cut out the adulterated
food, the poison stuff, you can sell the
pure food and you won't have to have
this big expensive office in the cities
You forget that we can't can water
melons and yet watermelons are fruit, "
retorted G. NJ Davis.
The delegates accepted the report Of
the committee on fruit and vegetables /
samending 1t slightly so as to read for
fhe eventual establishment of co-opera-
tive commission agents stationed at all
Of the principal cities together with
local sales agents during the season,
and cooperative canning factories to
take care of the surplus crop of fruit
and vegetab bles. When 1t comes to
shipments of grain the members of the
cooperative sections are urged not to
ship to the Kansas City board of trade
whose charges are declared to be bur
densoue but to the Farmers National
Grain and Elevator company allied
with cooperative interests Ownership
of elevators and the shipping of moth
ing but car loads lots are encouraged.
To overcome the failure which has
been connected with some of the CO.
operative creameries the report of the
committee on CT eamery recommended
that centralized cO-operat tive plants he
organized. The failure to economizs
properly in the management of cream
cries was declared to be another source
of the failure Of some Creameries to
wage successful fight against those
owned by corporations OF private fndi
viduals.
The reports Of the committees failing
to report this forenoon viii take nm tho
major part Of the afternoon. Evening
sessions which will be called for Wed
nesday and probably Thursday will be
held in the council chamber on the
third floor of the city han instead Of
at the Auditorium.
The special committee appointed IN
der the La Toilette resolution received
hearty commentator from the hands
Of the cooperative associations in ses-
sion in Topeka, at their first evening
conference last night.
Resolutions which condemned. the
.vrain trust in no half halting words
we're offered By c. w Peckhan of