Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-06-17
ORGANIZATION
FOR FARMERS
Farm Bureau Working For Co.
Operative Marketing of
Produce
Continued from Page 1

The Farm Bureau of Minnesota got
more from the legislature of their state
during the past session than the farm
erS of Minnesota ever got before. MI.
Bradley stated But farmers haven't
gotten very far with federal legislation,
though they did bring about the repeal
Of the daylight saving law. Touching
on the truth in fabrics" bill, the speak
err said that manufacturers should be
made honest by legislation in their in
dustries. as farmers were compelled TO
be by the pure food laws in this state.
If wooden manufacturers put shOddy
into their products, the goods should
be labeled to show the per cent OF shod-
dy in them.
Fight Imitation Products
The farmers should present solid
front against limitations of their prod
ucts. such as oleomargarine and Cocoa
nut butter" which are competing now
with their butterfat. campaign OF
education should be waged in this
| matter. Mr. Bradley said that last
year seven million pounds of cocoanut
milk products were imported into this
country from the tropical countries at
much less expense than butterfat tan
be produced. Farmers must get some
legislation to make competition with
| their product fair A stiff enough i'm
port duty will do it.
Farmer Who Cheated Himself
! Speaking on shady methods employed
| in swindling the public, Mr.. Bradley
| told a story on a farmer he knows
which probably equals any story OF
skullduggery pulled off by the wooden
manufacturers. The farmer in question
| lives near Hudson. One day he came
| TO that town and bought 60 pounds of
| oleOmargarine. The merchant OF whom
| he bOugth the stuff thought it rather
strange that a dairy farmer would be
| buying such a product, and mentioned
| the matter The dairyman said he
| had large family and could not afford
TO use butter. Later this farmer mar
keted quite a quantity OF butter III
| another town near by-Stillwater
| Bradley learned Of it and he and the
| Hudson merchant made an investlga-
| ton. They found that the butter the
| farmer sold was composed of IS per
| cent OleO and % per cent real butter
| Mr.. Bradley does not believe that farm
| ers are any more honest than any other
| class Of people, and he has been a
! farmer himself all his life up to two
| years ago. People should be educated
| TO know the difference In values of real
| butter and milk and their limitations
| There is big difference in food value
though the substitute may taste as
| good as the real,
In the south the people buy much OF
their milk and it's the real thing, but
it is in tin cans and from the north
and costs them 80 cents per pound.
Sliding Scale for Certain Products
The gentleman from Hudson thinks
| there should be sliding scale OF prices
/ for some farm products. such as sugar
beets and canning peas which are
| usually sold at contract prices Ger
| tain price per ton or per pound. When
sugar or canned peas take jump in
| the market. he thinks that the farmer
/ should have some be. fit of the uneX
Il pected increase in prices. However, he
Il did not have details on just how this
| could be accomplished nor did he men
ton that the farmers should stand q
loss in case the sugar or canned pea
prices should go into slump. Some
thing will be done about this fiat rate,
he declared.
Another thing the visitor objected
to is a practice by some concerns o.
! buying Wisconsin cheese and stamping
it New York" cheese and then WhOOp
ing the price. ut Is an injustice t.
Wisconsin farmers" He told Of st
Croix cheese being purchased at Hud
son. shipped to Chicago where It wa
marked and shipped back to Hudson
and sold as New York cheese. All Wis
consin cheese should be sold through
| one organization, in the opinion .
many Bureau members. That is tn
way California orange growers dispOs
of their product, and until they did
this way they were not prosperous.
What the Farmer is Up Against
III One reason why wool is SO low i
price at the present time is because tn
wooden manufacturers shipped i'll Aus
tralian wool when the bars wer
down." and let the American farmer
sweat" A tariff on foreign woo
should be imposed to shut it out O
make it pay enough to make up tn
| difference in cost of production. Freigh
II rates have created hardship for tn
ii Amercna farmers. When corn was sci
ing in Iowa City for 30 cents a bushe
III it cost 30 cents to freight that busht
II to Chicago, the Hudson man said. Til
water freight on lemons from Italy
less than one-half the rail freight fro
San Diego, Cal, to New York. Coz
| sequently, California lemons are III
III shipped east and California lemO
l growers are not prospecting.
II 1t seemed to be generally admitte
| that farmers cannot 'get very fan
without cooperation, but John Hell
of Tony, and Isaac Perry, of Elan
beau, expressed the opinion that farm