The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-06-25
Why Farmer Folk
Should be Glad to
Work 16 Hours Daily
Items CLEANED from recent issues OF
Capper's Weekly.)

STEERS DOWN; STEAKS UP.
Good beef steers at Chicago drop
ped from $3.50 hundred pounds on
February Is to $745 on April IL.
During the same period the price Of
dressed beef of this quality was in
creased from $14 to $16.50.
A HEADLESS PROCEDURE.
Last spring Kansas farmer
bought cattle and put 300-pound
gain on them. Now they are worth
IS head less than he paid for them.
In the year ending January 81,
1921, the U. S. Department of Agri-
culture reports that farmers lost in
beef cattle not only all they had
gained during the war but so per cent
more
STORY OF A Fleeing.
When NJ. E. Haskins, Kansas far
mer, shipped 155 pounds of wool to
commission broker in Kanses City two
weeks ago, he asked the broker to
send him sweater and buy and pay
for it out Of the wool money p
After the freight, war tax, commits
sion, storage, and insurance were paid
by farmer Haskins, he had $l1.40
coming for his wool, but the sweater
and express charges cost $3.50. And
it only takes one pound of yarn to
make sweater!
As the account stands now, Haskins
owes the commission man $3.75 and
has $4 to pay for shearing.
FOUR LEATHER STRAPS.
A. Clovis, N. NJ, farmer sold the
hide of yearling steer. He got As
ents for it. Then needing four hame
straps for harness, he went to an
other store to buy them. The charge
was 60 cents.
A farmer can get about So for a
60-pound cowhide if he will pay
little more than that to ship it. The
hide makes from 40 to 80 pounds Of
leather, for which he will have to pay
from sl.5O to 81 a pound if he wants
to buy back a piece for harness re-
pairs or to re-sole his shoes.
PAYING THE FREIGHT.
The freight on cabbage from the
Rio Grande District to Chicago is $25
a ton, including refrigeration charges
and war tax.
The growers get from $5 to 81 a
ton. Cabbage retails in Chicago at
$130 ton.
/ Freight rates are blamed by both
prodcuer and consumer. But in most
cases there also is a toll-taker some-
where along the line who is not get
ting the blame that is coming to him,
although taking more than his share
Of the benefits.
WHERE TWO HEADS ARE WORSE
THAN ONE.
A Kansas City business man who
owns ranch in Arizona shipped a
car of cabbage to New York and
when he heard from the commission
man it was not remittance, but a
bill for $40 balance to cover charges.
A PRODUCER.
Forest Luther, Cimarron, Kans.,
recently shipped three cars of hay to
Kansas City. After paying the freight
and terminal charges and expense Of
baling, he had to put up so cents a
ton out of his pocket.
| TALE OF A BUSHEL
During the investigation of the cost
of living by the Senate Committee it
was found that bushel Of potatoes
for which farmer in Michigan re-
ceived 81 was sold in Washington for
! SO.
The committee traced its many sales.
The farmer sold to the village dealer.
The agent of DETROIT buyer took the
potatoes The buyer sold them to
i commission agent from Washington.
The Washington wholesaler sold them
to the retail dealer. Each of these
six men, Of course, took his commits
J sion.
ut cost Wisconsin potato farmers
81 a bushel to raise potatoes last year.
: Now for No. / u. s. grade we are
offered 81 cents, while the people are
paying from Si.50 to 81 for the same
Y grade Of potatoes. We cannot hold
over our potatoes as a grain farmer
can his grain, so we have to sell tor
Q nothing" fNs
; PICKING BUT NOT CHOOSING.
II have made nearly 100 bales Of
: cotton, and when pay for the picking
0 and the rent, won't have enough
left to buy pair Of shoes. stop
\ ped my children from going to school
/ to pick cotton to get enough TO run
\ US awhile. Guess I will catch Il ma wo