Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-05-09

! A great deal Of awheat is produced
in the three Pacific coast states thai
IS not of milling grade. 1t is too soft
to be made into flour. The establish
ment OF the poultry industry on q
large scale in California has created
an ample mrket for this grade Of
wheat. The poultrymen absorb the
bulk of it either in the form Of whole
or ground feed. Thus q market has
been built up and remuneratiye price:
obtained for soft weat. II you destroy
the poultry industry through Chinese
eggs, it will also destroy the market
for enormous quantities of low grade
wheat, and that will seriously affect
the wheat growers of Oregon, Wash
.ngton and California. In addition IL,
wholesale and retail feed dealers will
find themselves facing bankruptcy;
without patrons they cannot exist.
The same is true to greater or less
extent OF the stores, banks. and 9th
+ BUSINESS houses that naturally find
a place for themselves in the town
which becomes the center Of the
poultry industry.
"The high cost of land, the high
cost of building material and labor,
the high cost of feed and the high
cost of living are the economic Ques-
tons facing the poultryman today.
They call for the exercise of constant
good care and judgment in all his
undertakings. Just at this time when
the average poultryman has been hop.
ing for enough profit during the sprnig
months to repay him for some OF the
losses sustained early in the year OF
1913 along comes the Chinese egg.
1t is brought in here by a class OF
men anxious 10 exploit the natives on
10Th sides the Pacific, regardless OF
the economic questions involved, that
is, that white man can not compete
with a Chinaman in matters of prod
uction-in a case OF this kind COM |
petition Is simply destruction.
'"The only solution that We can see
IS to put the whole matter up to the
people of California. The poultry in
dustry Is a part of the natural bust
ness development within the state.
then, the people wish to extins uish
the poultry industry in California in
a very short time, all they have to do
is--to buy promptly all the Chinese
eggs, which are filthy eggs and UNI
fit for human consumption, that the
importers bring into San Francisco.
1t has always been one of the boasts
of our state that California Is always
loyal to her industries. If now her
people will still be loyal and call for
and demand the big white eggs, prod
lced at home, clean and wholesome.
the industry that made Petaluma ia
nous, brought propriety to the San
Joaquin valley and dotted thousands
Of hillsides from Crescent City to San
Diego, and from the Sacramento val
ley to the Golden Gate, with COM
happy homes, win continue
to grow and prosper. II the people
of our state do not stand by our poul-
trymen, the industry will shortly be
destroyed by the Chinese competition.
EGG SHIPMENTS FROM CHINA.
Vice Consul General Clarence e.
Gauss, at Shanghai, reports as fol-
lows:
"The high price of eggs, the appar-
emit scarcity of supplies, and the pro-
vision In the new American tariff act
placing eggs on the free list have re-
suited In large shipments of eggs fro
Shanghai to the United States during
he month of December. 1918, and the
first half of January, 1914.
In 1913 eggs to the value of$31 Ash
were shipped from Shanghai to the
United States; of this total shipments
$4,000 were made during the
month of December, when $500 cases
(of thirty dozen each) were forward
ed. In the first half of the month Of
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