New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-31
FARMERS COME TO TOWN
Pennsylvania Changers Here to
Study "High Cost O livin'.'
CITES SHEEP AS EXAMPLE
Delegate Tells How Consumer
Pays S12 for Animal Orig
inally Sold for $3.50.

Be they farmers. hevo Well. T reckon
they be. takin into consideration the looks
Of their lids an how they jog along
kinder deliberate-like, s il they was
trailin a plough or a herd of cattle. Yes.
sir real out an out farmers. come from
down Pennsvvany way. An they amt
here TO buy no gold bricks. neither.
They're here 10 investigate this here high
cost o. Twin, b. gosh
There were seventy Of them in town yes
terday. members of the Pennsylvania State
Grange and each a master Of his local
organization down IN Potter and Tioga
counties. They are going 70 stay in town
for two DAYS, and when they get back 10
the sixty thousand Changers whom they
represent. the poor, hard working people
of the metropolis Will be in fair way TO
get their vctuals at reasonable prices
that is. all the hard working people that
don't starve before three months are cut
It will take them three months, the farm
ers calculate, 10 get their plan in working
order
All yesterday was spent mp al the Offices
OF the United States Association, 40. 1861
Broadway. discussing the plan for reducing
the high cost of living which the associa-
ton thought up some months ago and is
now beginning to put into action for the
first time.
f. W KjelEaard. whose 100 acres NJ
land is run mostly Dy the natural gas that
grows on IL and whose name isn't nearly SO
hard 10 pronounce as n looks the first time.
came ont Of the afternoon session beaming
a.l over his broad countenance.
"1t's the greatest movement the farmers
ever got into" he exclaimed with enthu-
siasm Were not going 10 let the drover
and the apple buyer come through and buy
mp cur products any more. and then sell
them for half as much again.
WHY. look here. We represent A prop
ortv value OF $500. 600 Ooo iE Pennsylvania,
and the New York state Grange represents
value NJ about $500. 100000 And vet We
ot the other fellow TX orr prices. It's alb
surd. Take mutton. FOR instance We sell
a sevent--pound sheep for s. 90. When the
drover, the commission man, the slaughter
house. the wholesale butcher and the retail
butcher have al received their share the
consumer pays IN cents A pound for the
forDouarters and % cents = pound FOR the
hinlquarters. o~ about So for the whole
sheep We're going TO cut them all out
except The retailer.
We're down here now 70 look after the
matter Of transportation for our products
and storage. When We get through there
won't b. any cold storage. You'll never
get an egg that's over three days old and
your milk Will he So fresh 'hat you New
Workers. won't know a. Why. man. there
are one hundred thousand cows pledged 10
this association already"
Gecrge r. Powell, president Of the Agri-
cultural Experts Association. took up the
story a. this point. He said the farmers
project was part of a great plan 70 Join
seven thousand dealers and perhaps three
hundred thousand consumers In this city
into union that would return the public
over 100000 a year Of the money spent
for the necessaries OF life. Five hundred
dealers had already Joined the association.
he said II was the Americanization o. the
English cooperative stores.