The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1913-04-24
LOOK OUT, MIR. MIDDLEMAN.
The Farmers are Organizing to Get
Their Just Profits.

Ineir JUST FRONTS.
Chicago housewives paid 2 cents a
pound, from to IL cents a head, for
fresh cabbage. On South Water ST.,
commission merchants paid s1.5O to
50 crate. Down in the Rio Grande
country, on the gulf coast of Texas,
cabbage was rotting on the farms.
The hunt for an answer 10 that
question today prompted farmers,
truck growers and agricultural ex-
perts from thirty states and Canada
to start three days inquiry here to-
day.
Cabbage is only one product that is
causing shaking of heads. AS Ed
ward r. Kone, commissioner of agri-
culture of Texas, said, someone other
than the farmer is getting the money
for nearly everything the farmer
grows. The meeting was called to
md out who gets the farmers pro.
fits.
Officially the assembly is known as
the National Conference on Mark It.
ing and Farm Credits. 1t is the first
of its kind. 1t is Independent of or
CARNATIONS and came into being be-
cause heads of oranges, farm experts
and growers, who had invested mil
lions in land in the aggregate, saw
their products going to waste while
the cost of living went up and the con-
sumers paid the bill
"The railroads aren't getting the
money" said Commissioner KCne. CAT !
least we believe not. The farmer isn't /
The consumer isn't getting the farm
goods cheaply. He's hollerine about
the high cost of living. Where does
the money go? If its the middleman,
we're after him."
Peter Radford, president of the
Texas Farmers Union, said that
farmers had long been FESTIVE under
present marketing conditions eve
are going after the trouble in an or
ganized way" said Mr.. Radford. eve
want to know why we get 80 cents
On bushel for potatoes which sell
FOR rs cents to 81 bushel here That
seems too big profit"
Other states besides Texas are in
'evolt. Warren Durham Foster mem
'er of the Massachusetts, Homestead
said New England is
the conference.
1.-The potatoes we raise on truck
arms In Cummington, Mass, are rot
ing in the fields" said Mr.. Foster.
In Worthlngton. town practically
ontiguous to Cummington, they sell
or $1.50 bushel There seems to be
eed for cooperation between East
nd West"
Sidney Mezos, president of the Uni
ersity of Texas, was unable to at
End the conference, but his address, :.
hich was read for him, declared that,
while some progress had been made
teaching the farmer how to grow :
ore crops, little has as yet been
'ne to aid him in obtaining fair :.
ices for his produce. To illustrate i
e gross injustice of our present !!
arketing system, | may point out :
e fact that Laredo, Tex, in our ::
ZION growing district, one day a {
ort time ago onions were sold for !.
10 cents pound. {
ihS uS<N1 HiOlIlIS bdTcuO OHlOnS =
ere sold in the open market at Aus +
|, Tex, at fifteen cents a pound. In !;
is transaction, as you will see, the Z
mmission man, the public carrier, +
d the retail dealer divided among Z
emselves $50 per cent of the price i
the grower. (
"The glazing injustice of such I
stem is made more apparent by :
nparison with the results :
cooperation in marketing farm :?
oducts in Denmark In that coun- :
: cooperation union handles, sorts !;
:ording to size and packs eggs for :
! per cent; the shipping and sell i
, cost per cent, leaving the far :
r 921s per cent of the final pur- i
Use price paid by the consumer" I.