The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1910-05-27
FROM THE FARM
TO THE TABLE
An Address Delivered by B,
F. Yoakum Before the
National Convention
Held at St, Louis.
Continued from last issue. J

The farmer works TO produce
/ the food, the consumer works to
pay for it, the dealer under or
gained methods takes the lion s
share of the profits. tits through
organization of the producers
working closely with the trans
porters, that food stuff can be
! placed on the table of the con-
sumner at a fair price.
Every banker, and every mer-
chant in every community should
aid the farmers in finding way
to handle their produce Wi t h
the greatest profit and in help
ing to increase the supply and
demand by cheapening the cost
to the consumer.
The rice farmers of Texas,
Louisiana and Arkansas. cannot
sell their rice for more than . IL
cents pound. The consumer III
New York is paying ten cents a
pound for rice. 1t costs to trans
port rice from Texas, Louisiana
and Arkansas to New York one
half cent a pound. II the rice
farmer was paid 3 1-2 cents a
pound and the dealer received |
cent a pound, which is 25 per
cent. profit, rice could be sold in
New York at 20 pounds for d
dollar. What | am trying to
make clear is that the rice
farmer could receive one cent
pound more for his rice and the
consumer could get twice as
much for the same money if
through proper organization tie
product could go from the farm
10 the consumer leaving one
cent a pound to the dealer.
Therefore, every member of
every community in which pro-
ducts are grown and every con-
5 mer who must pay for these
products is interested in aiding
the farmers to organize a system
of doing business direct from the
field to the table. Effective or
ganization cannot be had by
creating prejudice through poll
ticians who have no relief to
offer.
The California Fruit Growers
are organized. They were
widely scattered and losing
money ten years ago. just as
cotton growers are widely scat
tered, unorganized and losing
money to-day.
The railroads of this county
are not bankers or furnishers of
money, but they are organized
and can cooperate. It is to the
interest of the railroads to work
with the farmers; it is to the
interest of the farmers to work
with the railroads. This state
ment cannot be contracted, and
this being true, why as business
men should we not take advan-
tage of each others strength? ?
No manufacturing institution, no
commercial organization, no
manufacturing association, with
its interests extended into every
state and foreign country, has
ever found it to its interest not
to work with the transportation
companies in perfectly legiti-
innate manner, nor would it
think of permitting any influence
to come between its business
and friendly relations with the
railroads. Business methods
that apply to Ole business, when
it comes to money making apply
equally to any other.
An important subject on which
the Farmers Union is urging
national legislation is more strin-
gent regulation of immigration.
This subject has two sides. We
cannot afford to place too great
a restriction as to number of
immigrants, but we should fol-
low the Canadian plan of en-
couraging the best farmers and
selecting them with great care.
Within the last five years 400
thousand Americans, principally
farmers, have left the United
States for Canada, taking with
them an average of one thousand
dollars each. During the last
five years there came into the
United States 5 million immi-
grants. Statistics show that last
year each American who went
to Canada took with him as much
value in cash. live stock. farming
implements, etc., as IA immi. |
grants brought with them.
Every American going to Canada
becomes a producer: rs per cent
OF the immigrants coming to the
United States remain in our
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