Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-10-21
NEWSY GOSSIP FROM NATIONAL CAPITOL
Aoboet N. McWa6e.
Tribune tWoohinGton Bureau.

Aobsrt NJ. MSWads.
Bismarck Tribune Warrington Bureau.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.--Willet NJ.
Hays, the Assistant Secretary Of AZ
r~iculture. has = plan Of reducing the
high cost OF living In his advice to con.
sumers and producers to cooperate"
He suggests that tho cost Of living
can be greatly reduced If both pro
duccrs and consumers get together
through the medium OF cooperative
stores and ether cooperative concerns
as many OF the wise folks TN the west
arc now doing, particularly IN the
state of Minnesota.
Chatting over this subject with the
correspondent Of The Bismarck Trib-
une, he says: "The c%o.operatice Idea
Is steadily growing In the West, anu
in time. OF course. 1t will get a flrmer
foothold in the East because 1t has
been found to pay. Out III Minnesota
and Wisconsin, and IN other nearby
States, there Is a concern which runs
$50 cooperative stores for the beneht
Of it's members. I understand that Its
members a from IL TO 20 per cent
on everything they buy.
"If people everywhere would only
combine with the farmers In the near.
BY producing areas and buy their
goods directly from the farmers, both
the city people and the farmers would
be benefited. The city people would
get cheaper and better goods. and the
farmers would get higher prices. The
mldd!emen would be eliminated and
their profits, cut off. s...s-
Il was talking recently with u man
who is the head Of q large cooperative
concern with headquarters In Los AL
geles, Calf, which deals In more than
y.o, 600, 700 worth Of oranges and LEM
ons a year. Through this concern
the producers Of oranges and lemons
get better prices for their products,
and the people who buy get lower
prices than they used to pay.
"Of course, there arc a number OF
explanations which can be given Tor
the increased cost of living, but there
can be no doubt that It lies within
the power of the people of this or any
other city to greatly reduce the cost
Of living if they will only. combine
with the people, who produce what
they want. and get rid OF the middle
men, There IL no reason why this
cannot be done, because It has been
proved again and again that 1t can be
doue-and very successfully.
"kecently In Indianapolis, a confer.
ence. Of farmers representative organ
izations was held fol. the purpose OF
providing better and more Systematic
methods Of marketing products. The
principal object of this conference
was to prevent the occurrence OF
scarcities of products In n section
while Overabundance existed In 9th
CrS. " F"
There is no doubt that the time
must come when this entire subject
must he thought out, and worked en-
carefully II, the people want to live
economically 1t Is only logical That
the producers and consumers get To-
gether because the one class has what
the other wants. They should deal
directly with one another, and thus
get the best results Of their time and
labor"
Cooperative farm demonstration
work Is being extended by the Depart
ment Of Agriculture this year oil over
the country, largely In response 10
tho demands OF such energetic anu
pushing Congressman Hanna and
Helgeson, Of North Dakota. who as
certained by dint Of patient investi'
cation and long-continued inquiries
that sucl, work would be highly bene'
pficial to their constituents.
In previous years all OF the farm
demonstration work was done IN the
favored Sunny South. Under all idea
which was originated by the late $.
A. Knapp, the department sent prac-
teal agents" into the field, and each
Of them took hold Of as many arms
as he could handle, and put In the
whole season from early fall to the
following harvest, teaching the hard
working farmer the best way OF get.
ting all he could out Of his land, ana
ut the same time improving it, In.
stead or robbing the soil.
The result was that the demand
spread all over the South. On the
average the demonstration agents
managed to double the production on
a given farm without increasing the
expense. When this matter was pre-.
scented to Congress at It's last session.
although many Of the Democrats kick
ed against It vigorously. both; the
House and the Senate enthusiast1cal-
ly Increased the amount appropriat
ed for. former demonstration. giving
altogether nearly half q million dol.
lars more TO the good work.
Then 1t was arranged definitely that
the demonstration work should be e
tended to the North, and this year
there are to be several score of farm
demonstrators placed throughout the
heretofore neglected Northern States.
1t. is almost needless to say that the
right sort Of men are hard to find, and
mostly have to be trained to the work.
The number of demonstrators In the
North will be increased Just as soon
i as tile lnen can'be trained. q
The southern section extends in .
straight line west through southern
MARYLAND from the Atlantic seab0ard.
1t will Interest the many readers
Of the Bismarck Tribune to learn that
There IRE now over 1000 farm demon
strators at work in. TIE Southern
States this year, and that they are