The Nevada County picayune., 1915-04-30

0a0.0oO. Or. To express it in this wise. The American farmer today is doing business on thirty five cent dollar. and the consumer at hts products pays one hundred cents tat the same amount of agricultural products for which the producer receives bat thirty-flVe cents. owing to the lack of some central di- recting intelligence there Is an enoT- nous amount ot waste. especially in perishable products. At times one hundred cars of fruit or vegetables are sent 10 a market which can consume but ten, and ten are sent to d mark ct that can use one hundred. Foodstufts are shipped for long distances only to be reshippcd and consumed in the vii cinity in which they were grown. Our storage and transportation facilities are first swamped then starved; pro duce Is allowed to waste and rot in the fields and consumers are compelled to pay eNorbitant prices.
 There have been times when corn has been burned for fuel here in Ok
 lahoma. when your coal mines were closed for want of orders or miners. while oil from our wells flowed like water in your branches and hungry workingmen in idlenesS begging for bread were walking the streets of nearby cities. and the railroads were threatened with bankruptcy for want Of traffic and all simultaneously Sure l1 ranted condition. Any system of dis tribution which permits one peck of potatoes to rot while one hungry ma n goes unfed. Is an obsolete and made quate system. You farmers who fail to receive an adequate price for your crops you consumers who pay your hard earned dollar for products for which the farmer receives but thirty five cents: and you employers of la bor-none. none need to be told there is something wrong with our present methods when the high cost of liN- ing alone reduces the workingman' s wage and ofttimeS devourS his income.
 Producer Gets Too Little.
 Under the present manner of mar keting the producer receives too little, hence he seeks to lessen his losses by producing less. the consumer pays too much and tries to cut down his eX- penses by consuming less; the rail roads having less to transport charge more to make up for the loss of tom mage; the dealer charges larger proht to make up for the smaller sale; and here we round and round in q vicious circl" getting nowhere, the circle growing more vicious all the while.
 Permit me to say just here. MT, President. that neither the railroads. nor the commission men. nor the wholesalers. nor the retailers should be charged with all the blame. Both the producer and consumer are entitled to their share of it. The producer needs to be taught the best manner place and time to market his crop. how to classify, arrange. grade, and pack tt to meet the requirements of the trade, and the consumer needs to be taught better purchasing methods and to dis tinguish between high prices and eN- pensiVe service.
 Success in Europe.
 If we as a nation were pioneers In the work of attempting to scientifical- ly systematize the handling and mar keting of farm products. the practtca- bility Of our plans might be QueS- toned; but. far from being pioneers, investigation shows that we are a quarter of a century behind the meth ods employed in Europe. In Germany, in particular, the system of handling and distributing farm products is car ried to such perfection that inveStiga- tors are unanimous in testifylng that the foundation on which the conner Cial and military greatness of the German Empire is built. Is her won derful system of handling and distrib- utinG farm products for the benefit and protection of her producers.
 National Committee Organized.
 The supreme importance of improN- ing the methods of marketing farm products has long been recognized but efforts in that direction have been iSo- lated and without dehniteness of plan considering the subject as whole. To Mir. David Lubin, that great man whose life is dcdicated to the cause of agricultural bcttermcnt. the United States delegate to the International In stitute of Agriculture. Rome. Italy. is due the idea that we should study the German system with the view of adapt ing it to American conditions and of organizing to secure it's adoption in this country. When he was in America last year. many conferences were held with him in Washington, and the ques- ton thoroughly considered. Finally. before Nr. Lubin left Washington last fall, a special meeting of certain sena- tors and representatives, m Congress. repre-, e,entatives Of farm organizations, and members of the farm press. was held and the National Marketing Com mittc" was organized. Your president. senator Fletcher, who is never so hap py as when doing good and great things, was elected president of the committee. It's first vice president is Vim. T. Greasy, fer many years the head of the great Grange Organization of Pennsylvania, and at present secre- tary of the National Dairy Union. The second vice president is that we'll known Westerner of large commercial and agricultural enterprises and mu-