Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-12

range Of products the grower is
! pinched and the consumer forced to
/ pay exorbitant prices. Freight rates
\ have advanced, and classification is
| a heavy burden. A barrel of pota-
| toes goes from Monmouth to. Boston
| for 10 cents per hundred. barrel
| of apples for 25, and barrel of
vegetables for 36, yet all go togeth-
! er in one car, and the carrier was
released from all risk by frost or
flood, no matter how long the delay.
Some day the benefits of organized
efforts in selling will be made pos
sible. 1t is the only final solution
of the problem. The Grange, found
ed on cooperation, must come to its
own through such union of the men,
bers as. will minimize cost of trans
portation and distribution and bring
producer and consumer closer togeth-
er.
In every town and city, public
market places must be established.
where products from the farm may
be offered, without expense to pro-
ducers, and consumers buy direct.
without being Obliged to pay local
market charges.
htSlSidtlOn is UeHldHutu u MAKE
certain the closer grading of all prod
ucts. Cartons peck, half-bushel, and
bushel baskets will steadily grow in
favor and the parcel post be utilized
more and more for the delivery of
farm products.
One fact l would urge. Don't wait
for somebody else to find a market
for you. for you will wait in vain.
Do it yourself and start at once.
Make all packages attractive to the
eye and fully up to the standard
guaranteed. Push for a place In
your local market by regular deliv-
cry of surplus products, in such
quantities as consumers desire,
Canvass for regular orders and then
fill them, rain or shine. Commence
with neighhorhood organizations for
delivery and the character of your
products will soon give you a mar
ket. Be content to live and let live.
Let one man deliver for a neighbor
hood. and through diversified crops
widen the market possibilities.
Gradually there will come the
Grange or county organization, and
then we will be in readiness to move
for local storage houses at central
shipping stations, where perishable
goods may be held for rising mar
ket. Along this highway of co-opera-
ton there are ample possibilities for
every man, and, uniting for this, the
Grange becomes an increasing nee
essity in every community Rejoice
as we may over the achievements of
the past and the influence of the
with all its burdens and promises, is
knocking at. the door and demands
that we center our influence on con-
crete problems bearing directly upon
the life and business interests of
him whose every thought must be
to find the food of support for the
largest possible number. IL there be
good cause, for complaint over exist
ing conditions. ii is the province of
this Pomona Grange TO. focus atten-
ton upon specific lines of work for
relief
Seeking these. the door will open.
for the producer to find his place In
the market and realize his rightful
share out of the consumers dollar.
If consumers are restless over pres
emit high cost of living, they have
but to reach eGt to producers and
get the produets-ef the farm fresh
at their doors at a substantial re-
duction in pnieezq 1t is folly to COM
plain; it is time act. Wherever
men have united, success has fol-
lowed. Wherever men have sought
consumers direct a better price has
been realized for all products.
Organize for public market place
in every large village or city.
Organize for the building of local
storage houses.
Organize for the united shipping
and selling in larger centres, ami
most economical distribution.
Make your Grange organization
the stepping stone to business coop
Grafton. that through the influence
of cohesive action there may follow
a steadily increasing appreciation OF
the worth, the dignity, the blessed
ness of farm life.
Following DR.. Twitchell Bro. Wads-
worth of West Gardiner Grange spoke
briefly on the same subject. At the
conclusion of the business of the
meeting an adjournment was made.
1t was the vote of the Pomona Grange
to hold its December meeting with
North Augusta Grange.