The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-12-15
MIDDLE MAN
Gets ONE HALF
Farmer Splits Price Of Products
With Those Who Hand Them
10 Consumers.


"Thc consumer pays dollar for
food; the farmer gets less than City
cents Of II. who gets the routfn
That Is a question which Secretary
Wilson Of the department Of agricul.
suro asks In his annual report, presented
to congress on December 6. The secre.
tary does not attempt to answer Il. He
docs explain in aome detail the results
Of an investigation his department has
just concluded into the effect Of cold
storage on the wholcsomeness and cost
of food. His investigation leads him
to recommend publicity for the amount
of food in cold storage, just as the de-.
partment now gives publicity to the
condition of crops from month to
month.
Instead Of food remaining in storage
for longer than year or two years,
as a rule, the secretary declares that
his investigation showed that ere
ceipts into cold storage are entirely or
very nearly exhausted by the deliveries
out of cold storage within ten months. -
Long storage is the exception, the
secretary asserts. Warehousemen ex-
planned to tho department that ex-
cessively long storage was due to law
suits and other circumstances Of an nm
commercial nature. The cost of stor-
ags' inciuolng storage eharge, interest
. .anu tHsulan'e, - Sonsluereu as par
~ ~ Very Nng storage.
oolu storage' tne secretary reports
uas iulse ~ 'ne COSY OF nvlng py IN
ter and eggs ''S' -'F'' AZ D1'
mo so eses .. 4h,4 a.
80 -
tloh Oh the record OF prices gives
Suspicion tnat there mas peen much
speculation IN SOME years by the men
VINO keep commodities IN cold storage.
Made Wrong Guess.
He refers to can apparent mistake,5
of the storage men in overestimatine
the eonsumption of epgs nv the publie
at exorbitant prices last winter with
the result that in the spring the storage
men had to sell eggs AZ remarkably
low prices and send abroad the largest
amount of eggs ever exported in order
TO get rid o6 the supply. The secretary
declares that the warehousemen ought
to be required to send to Washington
each month the amount Of commodities
placed in storage so that the public
may be able to judge of the future
trend of prices.
Potash Possibilities,
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With h .ha sooro ~ SUI a. aAe so Ges'
~ s, ~ 4bat 4So do ~ sas i;Ito.
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depositories. ~. an
Recommendation Is MADE enas a
5rhi;o health sbonid he fha groS SUmse- to-
poIac ~ ne anu hureel u ~
ge1ner IN one one bureau taa donor+mont N tho
soutbern states through object lessons
in the felds. is pronounced to havegiieen
sncb ne 10 iustifv the extension of the
work To ali states.
The denartment announces that the
corn erop is moving northward by seed
selection.
Rotation of Crops.
M. 1870. .,r.+oma 80 rontino
aeaISal - ~ so,It,, and 10
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sun SUI. ~ soa on;rai. ha LaTt an fay yr
.iat uo es sl.a I'M ~ 'Inst snrn;sb
Even = sne "a lan AZ 49, To- rotat;nn ~
snenl' anu '""' 'Ao'e " '
ci1p s.o. ,oa.. 80 o~nor;montotion +ba
Ailer years % AL "a Ea,s,t;an elton n
uePai eiiieho e"Je ma 50 49, =,
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