Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-11-18
THE MARKETING SIDE PART OF FARMING
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sustain absolutely the figures given by me in the article of Sept. 20. counting
the advance in lake and ocean rates.
1t matters nothing that Mr.. Myers vamy tries 10 Justify those figures
They ire there and they disclose in their enormiy the most gigantic system
erful freebooters rob the farmers of the Northwest, but everyone whose sue
cess in a business sense depends upon the success of the farmers, and includes
practically the entire populace of the Northwest.
On oats they are taking very much mor than n wheat. Along about
Sept 10th the farmers in this state were getting ar average of Csc per bushel:
OF the basis of Liverpool prices the raiders yer taking from % to "a cents
per boshel over every known cost of transportation. Neither ar they taking
any risk in transporting this grain. The government furnishes the insurance
belGgerentsa They take no risk.
Mr.. Myers, in conclusion, may 1 ask you what combine" are YOU
10Y engaged IN breaking according to your song? The local elevator con-
bnahon, before the advent of the farmers elevator in their palni@t day
and justified the farmers in building their own local elevators and operating
them. But what are those savings u losses to the wholesale steals OF today
that run from 35 per cent, Is Mr.. Myers table and figures show. to above 90
per cent Of the value of PATS a my article of Sept. 10th shows?
They are always in combination and collision, and competition is never
would soon go down, as the farmers SOC would begin marketing. A few DAYS
~ !" or "p ppsba ao sjaa . tnt ta a "a nG cup, Cora has o dropped more than %
mighty man'pulators go after 1T aud the farmers dump it on the market those
who have it. But rs goes down here it goes up in Iiverpoo.
Watch how the TWIN sAvIoRs OF THE FARMERS MYERS and ,d.ns
will WORK the chloroform racket as to the cornth then as they work it on o wheat
and oats now. When this writer pointed out at Mason City last February that
Ames) that it cost IS cents per BIZ bushe .l' to- kim S"a d ~" an ms coop aPe ao o. a pgof Iem
re the facts? None kiln dried but in warnlu weather from New Orleans porfs
Costs cent per bushel to dry it when they do
farmer saviors. '0N s ""
Their next lie is still more useless, though it may catcha few. 1t is
the English jobber now they say that makes all of the mischief. 1t would
seem that eveo the densest in the country would know that if there were sncb
a atm thing as sa an English lobber (Which there is not except in Myers bhn) he
grain from the possession of the farmers into the hands of the raiders--bold il
70 me cst OF proauctloh "hhe IN farmers have it; max it soar tic the skies
when The spectators gather 1T in. But they will never escape exposureo of
those outrages, though they are putting OF the "silancers' on soma paners
With n USE OF the Long Green. Thank God there is still plenrv If nm
purchasable papers in this country and still enough of unpurchasable manhood
to stand fol- the Right and against the wrong, though such wrong are hack u
up by countless millions.
do Tot advise farmers a to holding their grain. I do advise them
against flooding the markets at any time and thereby PLAYING into the hands,
of the raiders. ! do not make war against honest commission merchants who
handle consigned grain. They are not to blame and believe MANY o. +ber
are rendering q fr service for the charge they make. Il lis the praat mil
ionaires peculaHNs who control the elevator capacity q he c,,n+,, M
also conuo all Boards of Trade.
Farmers must have money in the fall to pay their bills. hence thew pnst
sell. They should BET able to store grain somewhere and draw moneva a,i,st
warehouse receipts. Any plan will suit this writer that will stop the Ao,hr9
OF the markets, thereby reducing the price of farm products below the ,ost 81
production. Wheat, OATS nd barley have been right OF the border line of
production cost the entire fall, notwithstanding the high price in Enrona he
cause of the enormous toll the market raiders re taking topetber rIth -
shipping trust.