Bisbee daily review., 1913-09-28

local variations Co ali states and to ;he Nation as whole.
 Our civilization has charged Texas farmers With Inc responsibility of clothing twenty per cent of the pOpu- lation of the globe. out the burden Of providing raiment for 300. 00o, 900 peo- ple is not valid excuse for our beg ging bread from door to door of our neighboring states l hold that every farmer should live at home. We can and should. as rule, produce on the !arm all the things we consume, as well as supply home markets, and when this is done, We have made rapid progress toward eliminating waste and inefficiency in living. As farmers, we must study the pantry of our community and nation and see that it's wants are supplied
 The farmers of the United States Go not properly balance the Nation s rations. Our farmers cultivate larger areas and produce larger quantities of products per capita than the people of any other nation on the globe. To i've in waste and luxury and send a surplus of over a billion dollars of agricultural products per annum to foreign lands, and without our ex. ports the world would go hungry and shiyer with cold. We export 10.675, 900 bales of cotton. 40,00O, ,00o bushels of corn. 30,oO0, 900 bushels of wheat; livestock and it's products slS6090,, 900 and miscellaneous products valued at S297.000. 900 per annum But notwith. Ee -rp ,F al. American farmer as a producer. the Nations larger has empty shelves, as we'll as those that overflow.
 We call upon foreigi, countries for approximately quarter of a billion dollars of agricultural products an- nually which can and should be raised n the United States. l will mention a few of them: Vegetables slS,0OO, ,OGO, itemized as follows: Potatoes s7.O00,. H00; canned vegetables S5,O00, ,000; beans sl,s57,000; pens SI,5l6,OO0: onions S1.234.000: other vegetables s1,726.0G0 In dairy products, cream $924 900; butter s237. .G00 and milk s62,- 900 Tn sugar and moIasses our in- ports reached s11e,eaO.O00. In miscel- lsneous products our rice imports are N0iutl tt s1stUusNDNs lOBaCCc SGIstbb,- 900: liquor s21 GOO 900: currants Sl. 800. .onO; grapes s2.33I ,OnO: lemons s. 369,00N: olives s2,303 900: dates 537.. 900: figs s935.00N: miscellaneous g.. OOG.0
 I will repeat that I have listed only cur agricultural imports which should be raised in the United States.
 I nIw want 10 discuss a few ot these products with which I am personally familiar. While these vegetables were being imported in the United States and sold at fancy prices, better quail. ties of the same produces in many instances were rotting on the ground for want of market. To my personal knowledge, carloads of beans and peas were left unpicked n the gardens of the Rio Grande valley. and tons of onions rotted in the fields of South west Texas for want of a market Each individual item in the list is a chal. lenge to our system of distribution and proves the wisdom of congress- in appropriating funds for market bu reau.
 The American farmer has solved the problems of production and he Is now confronted with the question of mar. Eeting his products. While he is selling staple articles on a glutted market and his perishable products foul the