The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-07
KANSAS CONNENT
THE FARMER.

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Among the causes assigned for the
| failure of farm products to keep pace
| with present demands are:
Scarcity of farm help and conse-
quent inability of farmers to obtain
the best results from their lands.
The drift of young men and women
from farms to town, thereby reducing
the number of original producers.
Nonscientiflc farming.
Carelessness in the housing and pro-
lection of tools and machinery.
Lack of proper care in the selections
Of seed.
Failure to make due return to the
soil for what is taken from it.
Waste of feed on scrub stock, when
less feed would maintain better stock.
Neglect to properly prune, spray and
care for orchards
Failure to devote sufficient attention
to the breeding and care of poultry.
But here and there in every locality
scientific farmers are settino an ex-
ample to the neighbors, and the grade
of farming is constantly rising.
In reality the farmer is receiving
only fair price for what he has to
sell. but middlemen are charging too
much for handling and trying to make
the public believe the farmer is re-
sponsible for the prices they charge.
For years the farmer has been at
the mercy of every trade combination
tAAdI SOA0 INN SuPpllCS VI udl0lO0 HIS
product.
l. Now he is prosperous and is not
obliged to dump his crops upon the
market the next day after harvest to
stop interest on some debt, but he can
hold. or sell as his judgment dictates,
and by means of the telegraph and
the telephone and free mail delivery
he is in touch with the markets of the
world-in touch with the thought of
the world.
The farmer has come into his own.
He has been caricatured by cheap
city humorists, preyed upon by grass
hopperS and money sharks, and mis-
led by predatory politicians. Now he
is able to take care of himself.
He is one of the safest, soundest,
cleanest elements in our civilization.
E-Leavenworth Times
FREIGHT RATE CASE.
In declaring valid the order of the
interstate commerce commission which
was to the effect that the rate between
Mississippi river and Missouri river
points as a part of the through rate
on through shipments originating in
the Atlantic seaboard territory. the
supreme court places in effect reduc-
ton which has long been asked by
Missouri river cities. The rates now
charged between Mississippi river and
Missouri river points on Atlantic sea-
DOdTQ business Will come uOWn CeutS
on first class, Z cents on second class,
cents on third class, 3 cents on
fourth class and 2 cents on fifth class.
This is considerable of a reduction and
it will be in effect until the contest
over the new rates, now held up under
Injunction, is settled.
The winning of the case by the Mis-
souri, river cities will put them more
on an equality with the Mississippi
river cities as Jobbing centers. but will
it help the southwestern cities? If
fair rates are made by the railroads in
compliance with the ordered reduction
by the interstate commerce commits
sion, southwestern cities should have
the same reduction from Atlantic sea-
board points, but it isn't likely that we
will get it. The reduction on rates
to points in the southwest will not be
granted until the case before the COM
mission regarding rates TO and from
Gulf points has been determined.
The southwest will never profit by
rates asked for by Missouri river cities.
Wichita Eagle