The Florida agriculturist., 1907-10-23

the large majority of city people.
Now, the influence Of the city pa
pers will be to put postal savings
banks before parcels post The inter
est Of farmers is to have parcels post
before postal savings banks. Both
these reforms will not come at once
It is important which comes frs.
Farmers organizations Of all kinds
farmers Institutes, farmers picnics
farmers clubs, ETC., etc, should not lei
pass an opportunity to pass ringing
resolutions in favor of the parcels
post And then see to it that these
resolutions are sure to be sent to con
gressmen.
A mighty lively hustle on the part
Of farmers is the price Of a parcels
post
The New England Farmer says:
The Scientific American gives sew
eral cogent reasons why we may look
forward with reasonable certainty tc
the success Of the movement in favor
Of the parcels post. It says:
"The farmer has the rural free de-
livery of mails although this was
thought to be impossible few years
ago. Shall he not have a parcels post!
Each year the good roads movement
originating at the cities, is extending
itself further into the real country
Trolley lines are extending country
Ward soon they will come actually tC
serve the farmers needs. The te1e.
phone, as separate rural enterprise
is extending itself. Extensional edu-
cat1onal enterprises are reaching fur.
ther and further into the open farming
districts. Cooperation and organiza
ton movements are at the same time
extending and cOncreting themselves
The New England Farmer advises
every grange to discuss the parcels
post question very thoroughly this fal
before congress COnvenes; also tha
after discussion resolutions demanding
the parcels post be adopted, signed BY
the members and copies forwarded tC
the state senators and representative
in congress from the district in which
each grange is located. And these
gentlemen should be given to under
stand that their public acts are oeing
watched by their constituents.
The editor of the Palm Beach News
mentions the opposition Of the store
keepers. We have at various times
called attention to the fact that store
keepers are not willing to pay farmers
any more for their produce than they
can buy for elsewhere. That is i
they can buy shipped eggs for 20 cents
they will not pay you rs, or if cab
bage can be shipped in at 81. pei
crate they will not pay you ST. 50
Then why should they object to your
saving money by buying where yor
can buy cheapest. One of the best
expositions Of this position that we
have seen, was written by the mayor
Of Kalamazoo, Michigan, and was
printed in Farm and Ranch, under the
title, Fairness to Yourself. It is as
follows:
[ cannot bring myself to see that
the dealers are altogether consistent
in their criticism of farmers who buy
where they can buy to the best ad-
vantage. [ would like to ask you as a
farmer if your dealer will pay you
more money for your butter and eggs
or produce Of any kind than he would
pay a man who lives outside your
county or in another state? If he
wants to buy a horse, does he buy
yours just to keep the money al
home, or does he buy where he can
buy the cheapest? If he wants to
borrow money, is he willing to pay
you a higher rate Of interest than he
would have to pay in Chicago or New
York? Of course he isn't Why then
should he lose his temper if you
do exactly what he himself does