Weekly journal-miner., 1921-06-15
f FARMERS NEED ORDERLY MARKET
(From Fridays Dailyl

scribes the brief address of President Brown of the Arizona Barm Bureau Federation at the chamber of com merce last night When Mir. Brown got through talking, the members of the chamber of commerce had bet ter idea of why the farmers are or ganizing.
 Protesting that the farm bureau or -ganization now being localized in Yavapai, has no desire for revenge, nor any incentive to put a single middleman out of business, Mir. Brown proceeded to tell the aims of the federation. If realized, it was felt when he got through, the aims of the federation would make a lot | of middlemen pretty unnecessary in dividuals in American economic life.
 The gap between the hand of the producer and the mouth of the con sumner is what is bothering the farm CTS "who are in no position to blame anybody but themselves" their lead CT declared. But they have come, he continued, to the point where they realize the necessity of forming some kind of jinx-proof organization that will enable them to market their pro- ducts in an orderly manner"
 Laws of supply and demand, which economists aver control the prices of commodities, have been repealed, in manner of speaking, by the con- gestion of transportation. Until the arteries of trade and finance are cleared once more, these laws will have no chance to operate.
 MT. Brown cited a number of ex- amples of discrepancies between prices on the farms and on the tables.
 A quantity of wheat gains the farmer $S.4O.
 The same amount brings the miller SIP.
 The baker hoists the ante to $53 when he converts this wheat into bread.
 If the farmer goes into a restaur- ant and buys his wheat back in the form of thin slices of bread, he IS paying at the rate of $570 for the merchandise for which he accumu- lated the sum of $8.40. And it ain't right" the speaker said, using the classic words of Ain't it Awful Abie?
 He continued on the transportation proposition. Wheat goes from .Argen- tine Republic to New York for less transport charge than it goes from Minnesota to New York. It is pos sible to sell cottonseed cake from Galveston to Holland cheaper than from Galveston to Kansas City.
 So little of the commodity is used in the final product, where manufac- ture intervenes between producer and consumer, MT. Brown declared, that if the manufacturer got his raw ma terial free, he would not be. able to reduce his prices very much. So, little wool goes in $75 suit of clothes that if the maker got the wool gratis, he could only cut the price s. Hence, Brown declared, it is easy to see that the man between is the one who is working both ends against the middle and making it hard for the producer and the re- taller.
 The producer pays 56 per cent of the nations freight bill, he said.
 The American Farm Bureau Fed eration's most noteworthy achieve ment was its slashing by statistics of the book costs the railroads put for ward as the basis for their guaran- teed 5H per cent income from 20 to l2 billions of dollars, and this saved the nation vast sums in freight |
 Bankers of Arizona have done more for their farmer clients than the bankers of any other state in Browns opinion. Arizona is on the track of the solution to the farmers problems, and on Saturday when the Yavapai Farm Bureau Fed eration is organized at the chamber of commerce, Brown said, he hoped every member of the chamber would be ready to help.