The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-05-04
YOAkUM ON
RAILROADS

st. Louis, Mo-. May 4.-Excessive
reason assigned for hign prices of
foodstufs by B. F.. Yoakum, Chairman
of the Frisco System, In an address
which he made this afternoon before
the National Convention of the Farm-
ers Educational and Cooperative I'm
ion, now in conference in this city.
HE declared that the heavy reductions
in freight rates OF the past few years
had been absorbed by the dealers and
not shared in by the farmers or con-
uTners. Better marketing methods
were advanced as a means by which
farmers would get better prices for
the o they raise and at the same
time lower figures would be given to
those who buy the stuff for use IN the
kitchen. This railroad maj described
the ~de.nagogic politician as a distri
buting and expensive middle agent
and urged that he be cut out in the
dealings which uhe railroads and the
farmers should nave with each other.
THE most important force OF wei
fare of the nation will come when the
land owners of America are organic
ed" said Mr.. Yoakun. This organi
cation is important not only for the
benefits which will ONE TO the farm
ers but on account of money which
will be saved by the consumers. 1t is
not prices received by farmers which
make living expenses high, but the
profits of the dealers handling the
foods between the farmer and con
sumner.
"Tne Florida farmer receives 1925
for a bushel of green beans. the rail
haul to New York. and the
pays 500 for this same bushel of
beans. There is SIS per cent. for the
grower. 8 per cent. for h carrier
and 81 per cent. for the dealer. This
is not a fair division.
Thirty cents a dozen was the av-
erage price of eggs in New York last
year, while the farmers of Arkansas
and Missouri received Is cents. The
freight was two cents a dozen. The
men who receive the eggs at a freight
station in New York and deliver them
to the consumer take 13 cents a doz-
en- profit.
The rice farmer of Texas. louisa
ma n Arkansas gets two and N
hah cents a pound for the grain and
the in New York pays ten
cents a pound for this rice. The
freight is one-half cen a pound. If
the rice farmer were paid 3 and one
half cents Zone cent more than he is
How getting) and the dealer took one
rent profit (Which is 25 per cent? the
New York would get 20
pounds Of rice for q dollar instead of
10 pounds as now.
Every member of every communi-
ty is interested in aiding the farmers
to organize a system of doing bust
Effective organization cannot be had
by creating prejudice through poll
ticians VINO have no relief to Offer.
The cotton growers are not organized
and they are losing money today.
The railroad takes $3.50 for hauling
a bale of cotton iron gin to spinner.
hut the ~speculator must have $3.50
per bale. The time will come when
states viii construct warehouses to
aid farmers in marketing their cot
ton, l understand that Louisiana is to
be the first state to take this inpor
rant step. Under tnis proposed Lon.
isiana warehouse system every far
mer, individually or through his or
can snip his cotton to
New Orleans and hold il until he is
ready to sell. His warehouse receipt
is better in HE hands of a New Eng