The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-12-21

grade This manure he viii arrange to keep
covered until be hauled to the zelda that It
will not be exposed to the teaching effect r.as
and be robbed OF large percentage quickly avail
able plant food. He win keep enough hoga horssa
cows and steers to which 70 tsad al his oern fodder
clover hay and clover pasture When he market, his
fat steers and hogs he viii receive in money worth
OF the they have eaten we'll additional
profit greater less according to his skin @ stock
feeder Meantime OF all the crops fed the marketable
stock S5 OF the plant food contained therein have
been returned enrich the soil fields and to
prevent depreciation Year after year manure IL
hauled on the efficient farmers fields. improving the
Of their soils and gradually increasing the crop
yield per year.
Nature rotates her tree crops As each passes on
in obedience to her dictates crashes ground
and decayins there improves the forest
soil and prevents its depreciation.
The inefficient farmer wants to his product
into money as quickly as possible. He sells practically
all his corn-his one crop. He keeps for the
family milk. and butter. and enough horses to
work his land. What produced BY these
animals is piled outside under the of the barn.
exposed to the weather and its destroying
fects. He looks envy his neighbors cribs
stock barns, sos and hog house says to himself
If had his money could do we'll" II he had his
neighbors efficiencyfree for the time spent study
and effort-he would do we'll
The inefficient greatly outnumber the efft.
Gent ones As their inefficiency increases year BY
they its MISUNDERSTANDING by passing
it to the city dweller--the consumer OF farm pro
ducts-in higher prices In they are
forced to shoulder the responsibility the
bring about This is when the market which they
sell their produce is controlled by agency the
Money Power. The American Tobacco trust absolutely
controls the selling price which farmers dis
of their product. Less wise than STANDARD OIL
trust in dealing with the individual producers
tho Tobacco trust sets its buying price for tobacco
figure that allows practically profit to the tobacco
farmers. Consequently they hardly make bare
living
1nasmuch as government has had the right
remedy to apply to the trust and monopoly problem,
the tobacco farmers could look other source for
relief but themselves The relief of the inefficient
applied by industrial workers in the cities. used.
society formed to which all tobacco farmers in
efficient we'll efficient practically forced to
belong In reality this tobacco farmers union.
Those who refused to join it became the victims of the
might riders" and had their crops destroyed
times lives were taken. There 10 remarkable similar.
ity Of methods in this respect between this farmers
union and the unions factory in the
ment accorded non-unionized Workmen.
The tobacco trusts greatest weakness lay In it's
having to buy always certain amount Of tobacco to fill
the demands of its enormous trade. This the
point attacked by the tobacco farmers union The
union endeavored to limit the production of tobacco
and attend to the sale Of that the would be-
forced to pay higher price for what it required
to buy. For time the union succeeded In its object
and tobacco farmers received considerably higher
prices their product Eventually however, the
bacco trust by virtue Of it's and better organized
strength prevailed and the Of the union to main
tain prices destroyed There is considerable SINH
larty between this and the situation existing be-
tween the steel trust and its laborers shown
in former chapter it longer deals with unionized
workmen. 1t has eliminated the unions from the
industry and works its men twelve hours a day for
$167, seven days in the week
Inasmuch the markets in which farmers sell all
their products gradually coming
Of the money power-the products trust,
storage milling baking grain elevator etc.
proposition of the farmers forming gigantic union
protect their interests is being seriously considered
Such an organization will mean but thing eventual
ly-tte efficient farmer like the efficient factory
will be forced down to the level of the least eff
Gent farmer. A farmers union will possess but
element Of strength with which combat the
ments Of the money power-ths might Of limiting pro
duction in order to maintain prices
Limitation Of production will fall heaviest the
efficient farmer. The inefficient farmer needs all he
raises order live. In union, In which the
inefficient farmers will predominant their votes will
be cast for proportionate limitation. They will de-
mand that the more efficient farmer raise just the
quantity Of product per the inefficient
efficiently farm smaller number OF acres.
that s share alike in the increased prices brought
about by production Limitation That simply is trades
unionsm applied to farming conditions. Efficient and
inefficient farmers today between the devil OF
Money Power controlled markets and the deep blue
OF having to borrow money from that same power with
which install and upto-date larger farming i'm
plements. Between the two. despite all efforts to
thwart destiny long special privilege exists in
the other great branch OF industry manufacturing
either through farm unionism government interfer
ence, the will being ground thinner ana
thinner UNTIL the age Of the completed Money Power
they will exist free agents.
The special privilege OF manufacturing industry Is
inevitably overlapping the efficiency competition OF
agricultural industry and bringing 1t under its power
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