Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-05

WNAs 9VgQ4<N <Nlt tts- -2Ve ue.A LU udNc plenty of help, of. a. sort, to- do the comparatively easy work of cultivating and harvesting our crops, if we lack the hard handed, big m1scied, wide lunged help necessary for the exhaust ing drudgery of fitting and planting?
 Or what encouragement is there for us to attempt extraordinary crops in the face of a confused. desultory and junbled no-system Of government in reference by. which the prices of some crops are fixed so as to protect the consumer, while the prices of no crops are fixed to guarantee the producer? Farmers are manufacturers ,ef food products. The fertilizers, the seeds, the labor, the supplies they use are their raw materials. Said one logical farm CT the other day:
 .'sWho ever heard of a manufacturer buying his raw material at retail and selling his product at wholesale? Yet that is about what the farmer as 8 manufacturer does. In most cases he is forced to sell his product at whole sale.n Has anybody heard of any govern mental agency grasping thiss primary and Foundation fact, and. trying to I blaze a way ont for the enmeshed farmer? .s..i..
 A western paper the other; day. called attention to recent strong advances in the prices of corn. rye. oats and barley while wheat remained at a. fixed maxi sentiment in favor of establishing maximum prices on all grains is crys- talizing," says the paper. 5.'.$ 
 Why not? Isn't sauce for the goose sauce for the gailder, as Well?>
 In the west they want maximum
 prices to stop certain grains from sky -rocketfng out of sight in price
 Here in the east, many other farmers are wondering, if maximum prices are established on some grains to protect 1 the consumer from loss, why mini mum prices-prices below which pur- cnases are forbidden-should not be established to protect potato and on-
 icn growers, etc. from having to sell
 their products at less than growing
 costs: r, -~a
 You in the cities are still having te pay high prices for many if not most
 of your vegetables. A neighbor whc
 has just returned from a. thousand mile auto trip through the middle
 west; tells me that he found the farm CTS in Ohio just beginning to husl their corn. In one place he passed a dump of several thousand big, noble.
 looking cabbages which had beer thrown into a swaIe because the own. CT couldn't get s hundred heads fol
 them. At another place he; passed 2
 long row of huge piles of fancy car, l rots. The farmer told him that ht ivx oNN %o,
 their harvesting and piling. Yet hs !!couldn't sell them for one-half that Isum. , .I
 Another friend, just back from Flor. ida, tells of orchard, after orchard
 where the soil is simply covered witt wasting grape fruit, because it can be sold for enough to pay wages O. picking and packing. t% | Sure" said the owner, when n1y Efriend asked him for some; take al iiyou can eat. They're worth nothing tt me-" s
 But want some nice cnee to talk, lbaek north with me-" said my friend r Take the best you can find onstht trees" was the answer. ''and I'll b. glad to get two cents apiece for them - Somehow or other, such incident,
 don't indicate so much. a lack of pro iduction on the part of the farmers. ,aI
 they do 9 lack of gunptiSn in. othel lquarters. Of ghnption and of eff
 ciency.
 Are we really confronted by the dis gusting discovery. that these biz
 bouncing, brainy, rich hundred mil ilion- -peopled United States can't holt
 their own end up in a real einergen lcy? & l We hope. not, you and I.
 But. when some well eN-meaning rep
 resentative of authority calls me frou the manure wagon, to urge on me th
 necessity of further increased produc ton, though I try to keep my. temper ! can't help thinking of that histori chap with an eye full of beams wh
 criticized the other fellow with a mot
 in, his optic. Hs .f <. | :; THE FARMER,