Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-12-01

chicago. Nov. 3o.-How the govern
 ond the farmers may work to- sther .t to get bigger prices for the ,,oor and lower prices for the a.n,er at the same time was out DllsD , here today by Charles J. Brand. hea If inc federal bureau of mar nel ;n an address before the Ma e's' , Conference on Marketing and arm Credits. ao+; # r. ny nroducts as to quality and as iri u;,e and type of package is neces- 0N oe an accurate basis for price c4otion He said that accuracy of au. aandards in selling products means smaller margin between the price .;a % hv consumers and the price re- lived by producers.
 '. poor qualities and ungraded pro- ,ats M were ruinous to the whole mar .a att he maintained. Lack of stan- r,i .rGization as to packages, he said, sorded opportunity for dishonesty. ,o' thoueht standardization of con- inors a proper subject for federal n;slot;on under the weights and easnres power of the constitution. M, Mr Brand said, in part:
 sIn .I marketing and distributing nm m nroducts, two great purposes l' he served by a thorough-going .stam of grades and standards. Esso are the furnishing of an aecur- 5 hasis for price quotation, and re- .sd thereto, the furnishing of an seauate means for the dissemination market information.
 eye can never have much progress ntil the buyer and the seller are scussing the commodity in the same rms and that means that we must I've grades and standards not only to quality, but as to packages and cntainers. I think it is true that greater the accuracy of the stan- brds by which products are sold, the ss the margin between the price re- lived by the producer, and that paid inc consumer in the case of non- anufactured products, or by the anufacturer in the case of products hich must be worked into consum- bg condition.
 af)ne of the investigators of the kice of markets and rural organiza- op found on the Chicago market, ased upon observation made be- veen September 15 and December ,, lat approximately 25 per cent of the rload bulk arrivals of apples mounting to about $50 carloads, and bout 10 per cent of the barrel ship ents equal to 1GO carloads, were so w in grade and quality that they ould not have reimbursed the freight barges had this kind of fruit been seired in straight carload quanti- es.
 "The shipment of poor qualities hd ungraded product is ruinous to whole market, both the good fruit bd tie had. The most rapid devel- kment in the adoption of uniform |adts and packages of fruits has ben made in the states of the West here population is sparse and dis |nces from market great, with high Ecompanying freight rates. Under bese conditions tho shipper cannot Eord to send to market anything eX- Ept those qualities that will com- land high prices
 Not the least important of the Hcstions of standardization are those bat relate to the packages them lives in which commodities are ansported or sold. In order to get accurate idea of the diversity hich prevails in this regard, c. T. lore who is in immediate charge of De york in grades and standards for 9!ts and vegetables. has made 8 bllection showing the size and types
 packages and containers current
 tEe trade. I assure you it is 9 ouey horde, and is m itself a com lete argument for standardization. b consumer could ever hope to now what he is getting in quantity huyng grapes. New York has one et Of grape baskets, Michigan an- ner, and still other grape territories tner kinds. Some of them look very Puch like others. but contain less. ucn confusion furnishes endless op- prtlnlty far manipulation and even saonesty. In the case of strawber- ooxes, not only is there exceeding
 great variation in the cubic con- Fnls, but it is common practice to Fpack from containers of greater ca aclly to those of less in distributing ana to the retail trade. Likewise Ml peaches, the successful com Pefc.al orohardist packs his peaches