Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-12-14
URGES PUBLICITY
ON CHILLED FOOD
Secretary of Agriculture Says
Farmer Gets Less Than Half
OF Each Dollar

plains in eome detail the results of an in
vestigation his department has just made
into the effect of cold storage on tn,
wholesomeuess and cost of food. This
leads him to recommend publicity for the
amount Of food in cold storage.
Instead of food remaining in storage
more than n year or two years. as n rule
the secretary says his investigation show.
ed that receipts into cold storage are
entirely or very nearly exhausted 10y
the deliveries out Of cold storage withir
10 months" Long storage is the exception
he asserts
Cold storage, he reports. has raised the
cost of living by increasing the annual
price level for butter and eggs. He SAYS
an examination of the record Of prices
gives a suspicion that there has been
much speculation In some years by the
men who keep commodities in cold stor-
age.
COMMENTS ON FARM TOPICS.
He begins his report with a series OF
short paragraphs, Of which the following
are specimens:
Would 1t be asking too much of our uni
versities to have them educate more plant
pathologists and road engineers?
Every country in the world that has
diseased plants that cannot be sold at
home can ship them to us. This results
in great loss The chestnut disease here
is an illustration
Seven hundred and fifty million dollars
is the best estimate for poultry products
this year.
The day is not far distant when we will
cease to import potash.
a serious pest in the South Is the cray
fish: carbon hLsulphide is a sure remedy.
We are sending explorers to the ends of
the earth for new plants, and getting
them.
The phosphatos are abundant in our
country for all possible uses Florida,
Kentucky, Tennessee and Idaho may be
mentioned as repositories
II good roads from the producer to the
consumer We're general the benefits to
both would be considerable.
When II foreign insect invades, our
scientists seek its enemy where 1t came
from The natural enemy of the boil
woev!l was an ant that could not endure
our winters, but the native ant is getting
busy.
The experiment stations of the several
states are doing better work each sue
cecding year, the scientists are maturing,
and the people are approaching.
The object lesson in agriculture is the
best teacher; we had sixty thousand of
them at work last year.
CHANCE FOR SUGAR MAKING
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sugar wcre made ,ost ,.oa. =. ~ Doe'
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