The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-07
lRINER GETS LESS
|THAN HALF THE COST
[fretary Wilson Wants to
Know Who Gets Rest of
h Price Paid for Food.
|AKES ANNUAL REPORT
|sny Subjects Taken Up,
Among Them Relation of
\ Cold Storage to Prices.
|AKES ANNUAL REPORT

EAsHTNGToN, Dec. 6.-"Thc con
n,r pays dollar for food; the farmer
Iess than hfty cents OF IT,. Who gets
rsst?"
10, Is a question which Secretary
mean % the department OF agriculture
La ,odav IN his annual report. The
L,,,ary does not attempt 10 answer 1t.
II docs explain in some detail the re-
H. N an Invesliga rion his department
4. inst concluded into the effect OF colo
<~sge an the wholcsomene ess and cost
fnod His Investigation leads him 10
.6mmcr6 publicity for the amount Of
"a ia cold storage just as the depart =
"A, nov gives publicity 10 the Condi-
"a Of crops from month IN month,
|Instsad Of food remaining in storage
"A longer than y year or two years, as
'rnlr The secretary declares that his
@cstjcation showed that receipts into
"a storage arc entirely. or very nearly,
..austed hv tho deliveries out OF cold
rage within ten months.
Long storage i the exception, tho sec
||&ry. asserts. Warehousemcu explained
Il 1be department that excessively long
.farc was due 10 lawsuits and other
.'nms,ances a. an uncommcrciaI ns .
3 The cost Of storage, including
.raee charge interest and Insurance.
rousider,d a. barrier 10 very long
1Pge.
Raises Cost Of Living.
|oh storage. the secretary reports. has
Led tho cost Of living by increasing the
.nual price icvei for butter and eggs.
Ihr sccIctaTv says that an cNamina
nd OF The record of prices gives q ''sus-
<|on'' that thcr" has been much specu-
.|on In some wears by tho men who
ID Commodities In cold storage.
||r refers TO ''sn apparent mistake Of
i storacc mcn i'm oVcTestims ting The
sumption OF cGgs by the public at
|rbtsnt prices last winter. with tho
HIl That in tho spring tho storage
d had 10 soil eggs at remarkably low
Les and send abroad the largest
|opnt Of Gags eyer exported IN order
kct rid % The supply, The secrc taGy
|Dres lhal llr war"hcuS"mcn ought
be required 10 send 80 Washing on
ID month the amount of commodities
|fd In storage. so thai the public may
eble 10 Judge of the future trend OF
A Potash in United States
4 great variety Of subjects arc dcalt
hr tho secretary i'm tho report. lie
i thPi tho lay is not rar distant when
j 1li"d States will cease 10 import
Hfh Florida, Kentucky. Tennessee
u Idaho arc mentioned As repositories,
|erommcndal j. nude that all gov
mont agencies that conserve public
~ should hc grouped together IN ono
fhe success Of the department in the
uihotn states. through object lessons
fhe fields - pronounced 10 have been
IN ss ln bfsiicv til" 'cStcnsiOu of the
us TO all slatcs.
TIC department announces thal the
n rVop Is moving uorthward hy seed
'fction.
|nr American systems Of renting land
declar"l So bc faulty and result in
|-rothnc. II IS suggested that cTones-
animals hc kept ON farms. even If
lsnd owner must Cuuish them, ana
N 'herc be rotation Of crops,
Egyptian Cotton.
*IleT wars NJ experimentation. The de-
|''r'ni SAYS that Egyptian cotton can
<oNn in southern California and bulbs
LIE stat" of Wu<hiactou.
.nr crsfNSh t. pronounced tu be a scri-
pfsl in tUc south. Carbon bisulphide
&c I" lie = s1iro remedy.
<Af hrrs; dates from The Sahara dcs-
sgccfcd ~ til" southwestern states.
guilty products for the past year n, &.
--mhiei I" have been worth $3.50. 00O. 600
|nt fotcsters - the toTcstry burcHu are
*:plnS BIZ experiment how 10 rcforcst
~ HcrcS In year. Tho secretary
ihai ten times this must bc planted
.pp'ly TO cover all the bare acres In u
Tcra,ion
DC arc sending explorers Ia the ends
.P. chril for new plants and getting
~. saws Secretary Wilson
~ secretary warns llc irrigation
|prrs that they must conserve their
thai Irrigation VIII bring maNlmum
~ |hlie The laud is new and iull uf
g iocd But where the rrons arc sold
ny wear. irrigation ol itself will not
arf pooG results.