Imperial Valley press., 1919-07-22
TRUE NOW
TRU S Y WAY S
AND w H E E l. S
Some Plain Facts for the
Dairyman
FRANK PELTRET

and of stupidity; of honesty and
dishonesty; of greed and Of gen.
erosity-no more, no less-than
is to be found among other classes
of producers. Schemes to get
much for little, to pay less for
more appeal to the farmer as they
appeal to other men. He wants
high prices for what he has to
sell and he pays as little as he
can for what others have to sell
Like almost every other man in
the world he is prone to think
that he is entitled to more than
he gets. AS he is producer he
is subject to the law of supply
and demand and it often operates
to his disadvantage. 1t is, there
fore, very natural that he should
lend a ready ear to ways and
means to beat a law which gives
unpleasant surprises he remem-
bers, and pleasant surprises he
forgets; and that he should be re-
ceptive and credulous to sugges-
tions that Trusts can and do to
beat the law of supply and de-
mand.
Whether we like it or not the
law of supply and demand will
continue to govern business af-
fairs of man until the end of
time. The average consumer pays
as little as he can for what others
have to sell and every increase in
price automatically carries with
it a decrease in demand, unless
there has been q corresponding
increase in the power of the con-
surier to pay.
Digestible fats are necessary to
the health of mankind. Butter
holds the first place among these
fats but there are many other
fats that serve its purpose and
can be produced at less cost. The
world war has caused world
shortage in the supply of fats, and
this world-shortage is RESPONSE
BILE for the advance in the price
of fats. The market price of
butter is governed by the supply
of butter and by the supply and
price of other fats. Any increase
in the price of butter-fat unac-
companicd by an advance in the
price of ether and cheaper fats
automatically operates to reduce
the consumption of butter and to
increase the consumtion of
cheaper fats.
Although the war has doubled
the prices of many products and
brought about 4 corresponding in
crease in the wages of many
wage-earners, there are many
millions in the United States, to
say nothing of other millions else
where, whose incomes in proper
tion to living cost are less than
they were in 1914. A great many
of these have been using more
and more of the cheap substi-
tutes for butter-fat as butter ad-
vanced in price Every increase in
the price of butter-fat as COM
pared with other fats means
larger use of the latter. Our dairy
men should look to cooperative
ways and means to increase pro-
duction and to reduce cost of
production. The more than doub-
ling up of butter manufacturing
cost reported by Mr.. Allison Peck
in the Association creamery is
ONE of the way NOT to go
about it.
#ss *
The fable in the Progress this
morning is funny, in fact, it is a
sream. Ye verify, Henderson in
the role of an educated sheep"
is side-splitting. And the broad
est smile this delicate and artis-
tic touch produces will be in Mr..
Armour's offlce-way back there
in packing Town" in the "Windy
City"
#aA:
Since the recent agitation
is said to have changed his meth
ods. Instead of continuing to
"HIDE-BIND" the farmers, he
now simply "HOG-TIES" them.
-~>>zS--~..@s>-~----