The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-03-15
PROGRESSIVE REPUBLICAN, WEEP
A BOUT MA RkETING EXPENSES


problem solve is the Of cooperation and no" lar
We not solve the problem today or tomorrow
hut will without doubt In considering
before the fruit grower should not be
that matters although minor Importance which
the whole of great Importance the individual great zeal
could subject much will be said in later Issues but
while we are absorbed the marketing problem let forget the
of production Ten cents box saved In cost OF
production box extra price, The fruit grower
human save money of production and get better
he naturally entitled it, and justified in wanting BOTH
People will than article WORTH expressing 1t d
eren than the market value but the market value we ought to
increased by distribution In this
might said marketing
should avoided which gives the question: is there
expense markeng? from statement
by George Powell president the Agricultural Experts Aso
caion address delivered hundred farmers of Pennsylvania
meeting held New York City, September %, in which he states
he farmers who supplied New York City with potatoes in 1910
for which the paid Inwha
absorbed marketing worthy of nvest
CATION on pa of the potato grower
railroads certainly entitled to their share at living profit
large em wholesale dealer entitled his profit
also entitled his profit These three
seems unavoidable items but there other
eliminated, and what? The pertains other
agricultural products and fruit WELL which the fruit growers
vitality interested.
That the retail profit of the dealer bnonay high prob
ably questioned anyone familiar with the business except
tail fruit dealer himself be added that by this statement
that all retail dealers make exobant profit but that many
generally admitted fact and to what extent retailer line
takes profit that than his legitimate
problem be solved and problem be met possible Many pacu
lar instances be cited but sufficient indicate that
condition exists One retail fruit dealer in large CITY,
small store with stock of goods amounting probably
500 time after paying all his conducting
business and his living BESIDES So 600
home in Europe.-Better Fruit.
THE DIGGER THE JOB. THE BIGGER NAN
JERBERT QUICK editor Farm Freside says
rent issue of his publication that he has received great many
endorsing his avorie attitude toward
it. He that he had girl she
the daughter of rural mail carrier and that she hoped that
would have the parcels post in the United States because her
would be ovewoked carrying the mails did, Mr. Quick
this by the idea of child he
rural mail carriers themselves the effect Mr. Quick
Il have letter which rural strongly
parcels because of the difficulty he would be carry than
takes and make the distance the vile roads He
that the things the farmers think they could market would
well in the with first class mai-buer and fruit
Il thinks when
parcels he will have everything the
used by him. and transport in the onehorse buggy He
think that he'll have load butter hampers of fruit live
castings honey pickles. and garden all into the
bag with first class mail He himself delivering
valentines with coil of and string sausage
his neck And all with the horse and buggy
ou friend himself wrongly With parcels he would
much position get better have
the work The real the who his magni
fed-whether he be farmer a rural mai-carrier.
For the the the
the the bigger the emoumens That is the
vice..
County decided have the
harbo the Pacific Coast Bonds aggregang OOO
authorized at last Tuesdays election the proceeds spent
the Port Commission modernize the
approved Puget Sound will
the strbuive warehouse anywhere
Pacific To be able
The Seattle Construction Dry Dock Company Moran
Company building dry dock will outrank
anything its kind the coast At the Lake Washing
Canal under way that ALL Seattle is bound to t
come world important port
HE Sunnyside Commercial Club
County, cutting off the southeastern Delegations are VISITING