Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-07
SECRETARY WILSON SAYS FARM.
Err IS NOT Receiving HIGH
PRICES
DOES NOT ATTEMPT TO SAY
WHO GETS 100 PER CENT
Secretary in, Annual Report Shows
That Cold Storage Has Advanced
Price Of Porishabie Foodstuffs-Corn
Crop Moving Northward BY sesd
Selection.

Washington Dec. 1.-THE consumer
pays dollar for food; the farmer gets
less than so cents of it. Who gets the
rest?"
That is a question which Secretary
Wilson, of the department Of agricult-
ure, asked today in his annual report:
The secretary does not attempt to an
swer it. He does explain in some detail
the results Of an investigation his de-
partment has just concluded into the
effect Of cold storage on the whole
someness and cost of food. His in~esti-
cation leads him to recommend pub
licity for the amount Of food In cold
storage. just as the department now
gives publicity to the condition of crops
from month to month.
Not Long in Storage.
Instead Of food remaining In storage
for longer than a year or two years. as
a rule, the secretary declares tina. MS
showed that receipts into
cold storage are entirely or vc., neariy
exhausted by the deliveries out of cold
storage within ten months"
secretary asserts. Warehousemen ex-
planned to the department that excess
sively long storage was due to lawsuits
and other circumstances OF an uhco:a-
mercial nature. The cost Of storage,
including storage charge. interest ana
insurance, is considered as barrier TO
very long storege.
Storage Increases Prices.
Cold storage, the secretary reports,
has raised the cost OF living by in
creasinR the annual price level Tor Dut-
ter and eggs.
The secretary says that an examina-
ton of the record of prices gives
suspicion" that there has been much
speculation in some years by the men
who keep commodities in cold storage.
He refers to IAN apparent mistake
OF the storage men in over-estlmauHs
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 sec
rotary declares that the warehousemen
ought to be required to send to WASH
:ns.on each month the amount OF cont
modities placed In storage so that the
public may be able to judge OF the ~
ture trend Of prices.
Many Subjects Treated.
A great variety of subjects are dealt
with by the secretary in his report. He
saws that the day is not far distant
when the United States will cease to
nessee and Idaho are mentioned as de-
positories.
Recommendation is made that all
government agencies that conserve
health should be grouped together III
one bureau.
The success of the department in the
southern states thru object lessons IN
tn. fields, is pronounced to have been
such as to justify the extension OF the
work to all states.
The department announces that tho
corn crop Is moving northward by seed
selection.
The American systems Of renting
land are declared to be faulty and re-
suit in soil robbing. 1t is suggested that
domestic animals be kept on farms.
even IL the land owner must furnish
them, and that there be rotation OK
crops.
New Crops Possible.
After years of experimentation. the
department says that Egyptian cotton
can DE grown in southern California
and bulbs in the state of Washington.
The crayfish Is pronounced to be
serious pest in the south. carbon
bisulphid is said to be a sure remedy.
+ The finest dates from the Sahara
desert succeed in the southwestern
states.
Poultry products for the past year
are estimated to have been worth $780,
100000.
f, The foresters Of the forestry bureau
are learning by experiments how to re-
forrest 81, 900 acres in year. The sec
rotary says that ten times this mucn
must be planted annually to cover all
the bare acres in a generation.
I'VE are sending explorers to the
ends Of the earth for new plants-and
getting Them" says Secretary Wilson.
The secretary warns the irrigation
farmers that they must conserve their