Gunnison news-champion., 1919-12-26

Tho Colorado Farmers Congress.
which closed its tenth annual session
a; the Colorado Agricultural College
az Fort Collins, Friday, December 10.
passed resolutions protesting the
price Of coal charged the farmer at
the mines, endorsing tSe kendrick-
Kenyon bill providing for federal reg
nlat on OF the meat packing industry,
adopting the scale for the payment OF
sugar bsets passed By the Mountain
Stats Beet Growers Association, con-
demniHg the Booth-Fincher bill now
before the legislature.
The resolution referring 10 the price
OF coal declares that farmers are be-
ing charged in many districts of Colo
rado $500 per ton for coal at the
mine, while the minimum charge set
b. the fuel administration is SI.62 per
tor.
The resolution urged Colorado sena-
tors ard congressman TO support the
keudrickkeHyon bill.
The proposed scale for the payment
of sugar bsets provides a price of $40
per ton for beets when sugar sells 1t
500 wholesale at the seaboard. and
an additional sl.50 per ton for each
Sl.0O per hundred increase on sugar
above 500.
According TO ore of the resolutions
2,2i5,O00 head Of cattle and ], ,695 900
sheep and other food animals We're
lost last year on the open range from
lack of shelter and starvation. This
amounts 10 over IL pounds for every
man, woman and child in the United
States. A resolution was passed en-
dorsing bill now before Congress,
giving the United States Department
of Agriculture authority over stock
running on the open range with power
to enforc regulations requiring the
feeding and proper care of such ami
mals.
Declaring that under present meth
ois Of car distribution cooperative
marketing associations are being dis
crimInated against, one of the reso-
buttons demands the change in meth
ods 20 an acreage basis, whereby the
cooperative marketing association or
other shipper will receive cars accord
ing 10 a showing of acreage or volume
of crop 10 be shipped from n communi-
~. which shall be filed with the com
mon carrier.
The Colorado State Dairyimcn's As
sociation is asked to instruct its
board of directors TO formulate a petit
tion to the Colorado State Legislature
for the enactment of legislation pro-
viding for the inspection of herds and
for indemnitics for animals condemn
I'd on account Of tuberculosis.
The officers of the Congress were
instructed 10 send kilograms to Geo.
Livingston. Acting Chief of the FEEDER
al Bureau of Markets, and to Secre-
tary of Agriculture Houston, urging
the continuance of the Denver Food
Products Inspection Office, and of
the Greeley Field Station of the news
service of the L. s Bureau of Mar
kets, the latter to be continued until
Nav /, 1920.
The Congress endorsed the work of
the State Board Of Agriculture and
promised its hearty cooperation with
that body. 1t passed resolution of
thanks TO Prof. Chas. A. Lory and the
Agricultural College staff for the use
of the grounds and buildings and
thanked the people Of Fort Collins for
providing rooms and board for the
delegates. The College was asked to
establish course in cooperative mar
keting.
After reciting the fact that the
theccromic industrial and social con-
ditions of the country are unsettled,
and that there are elements in society
which are anarchistic and destructive,
the Congress passed the following re-
solution:
"We stand for the enforcement of
the law. We desire conservative, con-
structive and impartial legislation.
We stand FOR an honest days labor
and for an honest days pay for an
honest days Labor"