The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-16
WHAT Farmers LOSE
Who GETS PROFITS THAT OUGHT
TO GO TO TEEN
STRESSED AT Meeting

OF Experts at Chicago, VINO Met to
Consider the Need Of Better Mar
keting Of the Products of the
Farm, and Other Matters Of Cen
eral Interest.
Chicago housewives Wednesday
paid two cents a pound, or eight to
twelve cents head, for fresh cab
hage. One South Water street COM
mission merchant paid $3.50 to 81
crate; down in the Rio Grande coun-
try coast or Texas cabbages were
-rotting on the farms. The search
for an answer to that problem
prompted farmers, truck growers and
agricultural experts from thirty
states and Canada to start three days
inquiry at Chicago on Monday.
Cabbage is only one Of the pro-
ducts that is causing shaking Of
heads. AS Edward R. Kone, commis-
sioner of agriculture of Texas said,
somebody else is getting the money
for nearly everything that farmers
grow. The meeting was called to
find out who gets the farmers profits.
Officially the assembly is known as
the National Conference on Market
ing and Farm Credits. It is the first
of its kind. It is Independent OF or
ganizations and came into being be-
cause heads Of farm oranges, farm
experts~and growers who had invest
ed millions in land in the aggregate,
saw their products going to waste
while the cost Of living went up and
the consumers paid the bill.
''The railroads are not getting the
money" said Kone, Eat least we
think not. The farmer isn't. The
~consumer isn't getting the farm
goods cheaply He's hollering about
the high cost Of living. Where does
the money go? If to the middle man,
we're after him" Peter Radford,
president Of the Texas Farmers IN
ION, said that farmers have long been
restive under present marketing con-
ditions.
eve are going after the trouble in
an organized way" said Radford..
eve want to know why we get only
thirty cents on bushel for potatoes
which sell for seventy-hve cents to
one dollar bushel here. That seems
too big profit Other states be-
sides Texas are in revolt. Warren
Dunham Foster. member Of the Mas
sachusetts homestead commission,
told why New England is support
Ing the conference.
Potatoes we raise on truck farms
In Cunningham, Mass, are rotting in
the fields: said Mr.. Foster. I'm
Worthington, town practically con-
tiguous to Cunningham, they sell for
$3.50 a bushel. There seems to be
a need for cooperation between East
and West" Harry A. Wheeler, pres
ident of the chamber of commerce of
the United States, welcomed the con-
ference on behalf OF Chicago. Col.
Frank P. Holland, permanent chair
man, opened the session.
B. F. Yoakum, chairman Of the
board Of directors Of the Frisco
lines, though not able to attend, sent
a paper which was read; President
Harry Pratt Judson, Of the University
of Chicago; C. W. Thompson, OF Min
neapolis, director of the bureau OF
economic research Of the University
of Minnesota, and Congressman Hat
ton W. Summers, Of Texas, were
among the more prominent men on
the program.
On Relations of the Government,
Agriculture, and the Railroads and
Their Bearing on Better Marketing"
MIR. Yoakum said in part:
agriculture and transportation
have laid the foundation which has
made this the greatest and most pow
erful nation of the world.
."There are now not more than l.
900 miles of new railroad under con-
struction. 1t would require the con-
struction of $4,000 miles Of addi-
tionaI railroad to furnish the same
transportation facilities west OF the
Mississippi river that there are east
OF it, on the basis of area. That
great area of rich country can not
grow as it should on 1000 miles per
annum Of newly built railroads.
"Our public men as rule have
not realized what confronts US in the
way of agriculture development, The
production Of farm foods supply and
its movement to the market and its
relations to consumer require the
same intelligent consideration as do
raw material to the manufacturer
and its relations to the consumer, IN
readjusting our present tariff sched-
ules."
Mr.. Yoakum declared that if Con-
sress should wipe out the entire tar
if on every article that is brought in
to this country, on last years collec-
tions it would amount only to $685.
COO. 600, while the waste of products
on farms of the nations, means an
annual loss Of over five times that
amount. He gave figures showing
that s35,Oo0,OOO worth Of fruit and
vegetable rot in the fields every year;
s35o,ooo,ooo loss from cornstalks
rice, fax and other grain stra"
burned in the field and s1,5OO'ooo''
900 additional which the farmers
could receive if by cooperation, they
knew and where to sell their pro-
ducts to the best advantage.
President Judson presided over the
round table discussion while the SUB
ject, "why is the farmer not ehec
tfyelv organized" was discussed os