The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-02
REGULATING COST OF NECESSITIES

HE MOST successful attempts to regulate the cost OF
cessites have always embodied possession OF some
pPon of the commodity to be distributed fact which The
Ffrmer has frequently exhibited to it's readers.
Such the method of Zealand in keeping the price
Oh coal bounds The acquired stock and sells
ae That little keeps the price low and stable because pri
vae enterprise understands that the little readily become
uiuch.
Herbert C. Hoover chairman Belgium commission
his this principle firmly he places first in his list
81 things necessary be done to reduce food prices
There must be- he says, he provision of considerable
working capital with which to purchase wholesale on large
George w Perkins who has been serving on New York
State Commission inquire into food COSTS adopts this prnc
PIE the actual purchase of tons of western fish, which
af today the market at six cents pound in New York
The days says that Johnson ndicot & Co., Of Bing
hinton " will provide their $4,000 workers with flour
bfead and coal at cost
Willimantic New other Connecticut cities
have attempted to the ice problem by carrying stock Of
not enough to supply the market but enough to- keep the
price normal.
Despite large exports there is according Mr. Hoover
other persons shortage Of food in the United
States In certain there considerable surplus for
export
There indeed smaller crop of potatoes than usual but
the not enough smaller to justify price Of 81 bushe
Food high scarcity
the operation of business principle which
ve for buying in the lowest and selling in the highest
ket
for stock ofpotaoes to sell
them high price, it is for another who has stock
Of machine tools, to do the thing
Yet it must not be supposed that business in the United
States all conducted upon the principle of buy low and sell
high
large portion Of the business community especially the
industrial portion believes in paying high for large
production with the aim not Of higher but of lower prices
Hundreds Of manufacturers sell their product at fixed
price, fixed profit be made They agree
with their customers upon price, and keep that price stable
for long periods. 1850
The provision business is not entirely given to
an Butter and especially bought far ahead of the
demand fixed price, and sold contract at slight in
Millions of dozens of such eggs and millions Of pounds
q butter distributed by wholesalers at prices fix
Ell months ago. which low compared with present quota
lions. ~
relatively slight quantity of supervision would work
ders with the food supply benefitng the farmer the middle
and the public.
The provision for food supply should begin before the
is in the ground the farmer agreeing to furnish his
for price fixed in advance This condition.
but is relation often existing between farmers and
neries Once the and the arranged the
matter of distribution is relatively simple.
The trouble to frequently that the farmer does not know
whether he will be able to sell his not system which
would make the certainty which would conserve it.
wase and economically to market would work to
the advantage Of everybody
The present methods chaotic waseful, and extrava
CANT II behooves everybody to aid in their Improvements is
not difficult. sA