Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-12-07
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cost OF LIVING. | |. /! ! !.
Secretary wilson: Submits il i i il
Annual Report Of Ills
Department
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Who Gels the Middle Profits
and Why are They so
High?
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-THE con-
sumer pays a dollar for food; the
farmer gets less than so cents of it.
VINO gets the rest?"
That is a question which Secretary
Wilson Of the department Of aericul-
ture asked today in his annual report.
The secretary does not attempt to
answer 1t, He does explain in some,
Detail the results Of an Investigation
his department has just concluded
into the effect Of cold storage on the
wholesomeness and cost Of food. His
Investigation leads him to recommend
publicity for the amount of food in
cold storage, just as the department
now gives publicity to the condition
OF crops from month to month.
instead of food remaining in stor.
age for longer than a year or two
years, as rule, the secretary de.
clares that his Investigation showed
that receipts into cold storage are
entirely or very nearly exhausted BY
the deliveries out of cold storage
within ten months"
:: Long storage is the execution. the
secretary asserts. Warehouse men
explained TO- the department that ex-
cesslvely long storage was due to law
suits and other circumstances Of an.
nfcom mercial nature. The cost OF
storage, including storage charxe, IL.
terest' and insurance, is Considered
as q barrier to very long storage.
Cold storage, the secretary reports.
has h4ised the cost of Giving by in
creasing the annual price lever fof
butter and eggs. =, - -,
The secretary says that an examina.
tion Of the record of prices gives q
suspicion" that there has been much
speculation In some years by the men
who keep commodities In cold stor-
age.
He refers to "an apparent mistake"
OF the storage men in overestimating
the consumption Of eggs by the public
at exorbitant prices last winter with
the result that In the spring the stor-
age men had to sell eggs at remark.
ably low prices and send abroad the
largest amount Of eggs ever exported
in'order to get rid of the supply. The
secretary declares that the ware
houses ought to be required to send to
each month the amount !
Of commodities placed in storage so
bhat the public may be able to Judge
Of the future trend of prices.
A great variety of subjects are
dealt with by the secretary in his re-
port. He says that the day is not far
1istant when the United States will
cease to import potash. Florida, Ken
lucky, Tennessee and Idaho are men,
Toned as repositories.
Recommendation is made that all
government agencies that conserve
public health should be grouped to-
,ether in one bureau.
The success Of the department in
he southern states through object les
IONS in the fields, is pronounced to
lave been such as to Justify the ex-,
ensiOn of the work to all the states.
The department announces that the
'orn crop is moving northward by
eed selection.
The American systems of renting
and are declared to be faulty and re-
ult in soil robbing. It is suggested
hat domestic animals be kept on
arms. even if the land owner must
urnish them and that there be a ro-
alton OF crops.
After years of experimentation, the
apartment says that Egyptian cotton
an be grown in southern California
nd bulbs in the state of Washington.
The finest dates from the Sahara
esert succeed in the southwestern
tates.
Poultry products for the past year
re estimated to have been worth
750, 900, 900.
The foresters of the forestry bu.
eau are learning by experiments how.
reforest 10000 acres in a, year.
he secretary says that ten times this
luch must be planted annually to
over all the bare acres in a genera
on.
1--WE are sending explorers to the
1ds Of the earth for new plants
citing them" says Secretary VIII
IN.
The secretary warns the irrigation
!rmers that they must conserve their
Ill; that irrigation will bring maxi
um crops while the land Is new and
III of plant food. But where the
ops are sold year by year irrigation
itself will not of itself, assure good
lSultS