Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-26
PRESENT EVIL LIES IN METHODS OF DISTRIB-
 UTTNG FARM PRODUCTS.

(written Specially For The BuIletin.)
 Daily, almost, proof accumulates of the true relation of the farmer and farm prices to the High Cost of Liv- ing. Of course, you remember the Mis- soilri apple grower who sold his. crop of fancy fruit to city commission man for SIPS a barrel and, two weeks later in the city, bought some of the same apples out of the very barrel ill which he packed them, for s1.5O a dozen.
 And you know all about the eighteen and twenty cent milk sold in town, for which the farmer gets six and and a half cents.
 Nor can you have forgotten the New Fork state onion-grower who, after sending a carload of first quality table onions to the modern Sodom. re- cefved bill for $1s.23 from the broker. to make up the balance of freight charges over and above what the onions sold for.
 Nor of the New Jersey strawberry man who paid two cents and a half for picking, half a cent for the basket, two. cents more for hauling to the city market-and got three cents basket for his fruit.
 have been offered dollar a hun- dred for sweet corn which at that very time was retailed in city stores for fifty cents a dozen. Once I took some fresh -dug parsnips to a city dealer who was retailing them at twentytfive cents peck. He offered me seventy cents barrel for them. Another, when baking beans were selling to consumers for fifteen cents a pound, offered me $437 1-2 cents per hundred pound bag.
 Now comes Frank Hagenbarth president of the National Wool Grow CTS association, with a concise state ufent Of What the wool grower gets ! for wool in a suit of clothes. For a three piece wooden suit of the grade which retails around $50, the wool
 costs $5s27. For the higher priced suits made of the very finest West ern wool and retailing around SIS the wool costs s7.37. Just about ten pel | cent.
 That is, of every deIlar you pay for your wooden suit, ten cents goes tC
 pay fer the wool in 1t and ninety cents
 for the getting 1t on your back. l Or, in other words, ten cents goes tc
 the farmer and ninety cents to the manufaetufef and tailor and dealer. | Which isn't exactly true, either. Fol
 the farmer doesn't get that full s7.3i
 sells at Boston market for $7.37, anc the farTner gets what is left after talk | ing out freight commission, etc. usually about twenty-five to thirty
 cents for the wool in such a suit. Ht really gets a little less than ten pel
 cent. But. call. 1t t-- that sss -,..z-s,s In order to be perfectly fair, per.
 haps you'H say, it must be admitted that there is something more to sui than just the wool. Yes, indeed. Ther,
 are also buttons and thread and lin
 ings and padding. And of. course
 they must be paid for. Also, there f.
 the labor of spinning the wool int, yarn,e weaving it into cloth, and sew ing 1t into garments. This, also, mus
 be paid for.
 eAnd the profits of the wool broker and the woolen manufacturer, and tn
 mill agent, and the wholesaler, and tn
 tailor-five cumulative profits, at least
 Now some Of these if-between pro
 cesses and profits are legitimate an.
 necessary. Perhaps, they. all are.
 don't profess to know. But the sim
 pie, self f-evident fact remains that i is the wool growing farmer who sup
 plies practically. the entire materia value or the s75 suib-and who get
 less than s7 for 1t.
 +. # the wool sFIouid be taken iron 'f him for absolutely nothing, if h 1 should be compelled to work for n q wages and board himself, so that tn entire cost of the wool might be say ed to the suit-buyer, that gruEblinl
 individual would still have to pay $6 for his clothes.
 | Net# if any fair-rninded and reason ably intelligent persen. who is not farmer happens to read this, I wan 4 to ask him if he really thinks tn
 high cost of Noolen clothing is solel due to the q farmer? Or partly t the sSS -between handlers? : It's on the same line with tha
 bunch of farmers who were charge | Sa for a lunch in Washington, ( 4 which $11 just s2 cents went to pa : the purchaser of the meat, grains, veg etables, etc, consumed.
 5 Anyone Of common honesty who wi l -.