The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-21
Farmer Doesn't Get as Much as
He Should.
COMBINATION IN IT
Dealer Must Make Up Deficit
on Consumer.
Total Loss in q. s. Is Forty
Five Millions.

Washin gton, May N.-According to a
recent report of the department of ag-
riculture, the eggs dealers of Kansas
suffer a loss of s., 100000 annually because
poor care and handling of the product.
The report says:
I'm spite of the fact that prices are
better than they were formerly the
producers are not receiving as mucn
for their eggs as they should, consld-
ering the ultimate prices paid by the
consumers of these eggs. This is not
the result of any combination on the
mart of buyers to keep prices down.
for competition is usually sharp enough
TO cause as much to be paid as the
buyer can afford.
1.-THE real reason lies in the fact that
the system of marketing and buylng
eggs in this section is faulty anu
canses a good deal of tpreventable loss
and deterioration. This mainly because
no Incentive is offered for care and e&-
pedttious handling of the product III
other words, the careful FARMER "he
markets good eggs as rule gets NJ
more for them than his careless nelgh-
bor who markets poor ones. AS re-
suit of this loss, prices paid TO pro
ducers must be depressed to cover IT.
and this accounts for the olhereIlCo
between the prices paid for these esss
and the prices charged the consumers.
cat first glance it might be thoughl
+ha+ tbis loss and deterioration was
slight and of minor Importance. quite
+ba contrary, however. is tne Case
morn a careful study made OF the SIT
nation il appears that the annual LOSE
resulting from these sources IN tne
trade of the country totals ABOUT 10
per cent OF the VaAue OA Ine -
or $45, 10000 hove
ssTn the state of Kansas alone Wiz
+ha investigations of the depar
have been principally carried on tne
ka1 Of
annual loss is estimated aI nnol 20
million dollars. A condensed re-
7ort of the total receipts of three Kan
sas egg buyers during the montns 90 %
81 August and September, 1SlV
shows the number of 'rots tnro~ oi'
ont as the result of Gambling, as WEI
as the number Of seconds anu cneoN9
IN two instances each month.
.sI.ba total receipts were 70S,569 dozen |
At * cents a dozen the value OF tne
total receipts would be $lOo'Soo.0o' -
80 basis of 6 cents a dozen less Iol
seconds and checks than Tor nrstso ~ ~
loss due to this class Woulo pe S,-o1,,+a |
rrhe 6e. 44o dozen rots are an apsolor1
loss of s9967.35. The total loss, tnere
fore from eggs thrown out ana InoSo
deteriorated in quality is $15'15Sbl, OF
14.3 per cent of the original Value-
Curtis Gets an Investigation
Senator Curtis secured an amend
ment to the agricultural approprIallon
tary of agriculture to cause tnorousn
to be made and report 10
at the opening OF the neA'
session upon the feasibility and the
economy of irrigation by the reservoir
system or plan in western Kansas.
This investigation is to be made out
of the fund of SOS, 300 provided in the
q agricultural bill for irrigation 1nVestl-
cations.
The AGRICULTURAL bill contains an item
enabling the secretary of agriculture
to investigate and report upon the laws
of the state and territories as erecting
irrigation and the rights of appropr1-
ators, and of riparian proprietors ano
institutions relating to irrigation, anu
upon the use of irrigation water al
home and abroad, with especial sug-
gestions of the best methods for the
utilization of irrigation waters in ag-
riculture. 1t provides further for OBJ
tanning information regarding the use
Of different kinds of power and appn-
ances for irrigation.
More Postal Banks.
Four additional Kansas postoffices of
the third-class have been designated tic
become postal savings bank depositor-
es on June 1. They are Lebo, Lin
colin, Quinter and Sylvan Grove.
Kansas postmasters appointed: Will
lam H Smith, Colby; Morgan NJ
Norcatur; Anna r. Wood, Selden; JOS
eph l. Stevens. Stockton; Dora I.
Proctor, Carwood: Charles Mcconnell.
James H. Force, Kipp; Eliz-
lbeth NJ. Kreigh, Lasswell; Charles A.
Raup, Norwich; Fannie Bitner, Shields.
The president has nominated George
W. Rains to be postmaster at Galena:
KAN, in the place of Charles L. Rains,
deceased.