The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-04-09
WHO GETS ALL
THE PROFIT?
THIS is THE QUESTION GARDEN.
ING EXPERTS ARE TRYING
TO SOLVE.
Meeting Held at Chicago at Wh,er
Interesting Facts Are
Brought Out.

CHICAGO. April S.-Chicago house
wives to-day paid cents "A pound or
from To lee a head for fresh cabbage.
or South Water street commission
merchants paid $50 To So 4 crate:
down IN the Rio Grande country. on
the Gulf coast OF Texas. cabbage is
rotting on the farms.
The hunt for an answer to that prob
lem prompts farmers. truck growers
anu agricultural experts from thirty
states and Canada To start thr &c
, days inquiry hero To-day. CabblE,
is only one of the products that H.
causing shaking of heads. As Ed
ward Il. Eonr. commissioner of agri'
culture 81 Texas said. some body els.
Is getting the money for nearly every
thing that farmers grow. The meet
ing WAS called To- find out who gets
the farmers profits.
Officially the assembly Is known
as the National Conference on Mar
k"ting and Farm Credits. II is the
/ first 80 it's kind. II is independents Of
organizations and came into being be
caus, neads OF farm oranges. farm
experts and growers who had invest
cd millions In land In the aggregate,
saw their products going To waste
while the cost o. living went up and
the consumers paid the bill.
After Somebody.
THE railroads aren't getting the
money said Kon". AT least we think
/ not. The farmer isn't The consumer
! isn't getting the farm goods cheaplv.
/ Hes hollerinG about the high cost nj
/ living. where does the money go? IL
/ to the mIddlemaL were after him
Peter Radford, president of the
/ Texas Farmers Union. said that far
mers have long been FESTIVE under
! present marketing conditions.
We are going after the trouble in
an organized way" said Radford.
we want TO know why we get only
thirty cents on bushel for potatoes
/ which sell for - cents to 81 a bushel
here. That means too big a profit.
Other states besides Texas are in
revolt Warren Durham Foster.
member of the Massachusetts Home
stead commission. told why New Eng
/ land is supporting the conference.
Potatoes We raise on truck farms
in Cummington. Mass, are rotting in
/ the fields" said Mr.. Foster I'm
| Worthngton. town practically con.
/ tiguOus TO Cummington. they sell for
l $3.50 a bushel. There seems to be
need for cooperation between east
/ and west"
Session Opened.
/ Harry A. Wheeler. president of the
Chambers Of Commerce of the United
States. welcomed the conference on
4 behalf OF Chicago. Colonel Frank =.
Holland permanent chairman. opened
' the session.
/ Sidney l.. Mezes. president Of the
] University OF Texas. was unable 10
attend and his address was read for
him.
While some progress has been
made in teaching the farmer how 20
grow more crops the paper reads
Little has Yet been done to aid in
getting fair prices for his product. To
Illustrate the gross injustice OF our
present marketing system. ! may
point out the fact that at Laredo
, Texas. in our onion growing district
one day a short time ago. onions were
sold FOR two cents a pound: the next
morning Laredo onions were sold in
the open market at Austin. Texas al
u cents pound In this transac
ton. as You will soc. the commission
man. the public carrier. and the retail
dealer divided six hundred and fifty
percent az the price paid 10 The
grower