The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-06
Secretary of Agriculture Issues
Warning to Bakers.
Only IL Cents Worth of Wheat
in 10 Cent Loaf.
new ERA FOR FARMERS
No Longer Feel Disseminated
Against, Declares Chief.
Youths of Nation Are Going
Back to Fields.

Washington, June 6.-Return of the
five cent loaf of bread was a near pos
sibility thruout the United States, Sec
retary of Agriculture Wallace said to-
day.
Production costs are approaching
the pre-war rates. The question of the
cheaper loaf soon will be directly up
to bakers and grocers. Wallace warned.
THE average value of the wheat
needed to make a one-pound loaf of
bread now is II cents" said Wallace.
The average retail price of a pound
loaf thruout the country is 10.3 cents.
Rates and Wages Cause.
''The big difficulties in the way of
the five cent loaf now are high
freight rates and high wages. When
these factors are reduced and the la
Dor cost of transportation. milling and
baking debated. there will be no justi-
fication for failure of the 5 cent loaf
to reappear."
In the last six months, according
to the price data of the labor de-
partment, the cost of a barrel of
flour at the mill has been reduced
from 1920 to $S a barrel or about 13
per cent. Retail and wholesale bakers
thus are getting practically all their
bread making materials at prices far
Panic Has Vanished.
Chicago, June 6-Congress took the
panicky streak o., of the American
farmer and he now has his sleeves
rolled up and his feet squarely on the
ground.
The farmer who some months ago
| threw his rake in the marsh and
shouted, what's the use." has been
! given a real incentive for going back
i to work.
Tiliers # the soil, many of them on
the verge of bankruptcy for a long.
| long while and unable to borrow rum
| ming capital. believe they have started
on anew era of pros .ty.
| Back to the Farm.
! The survey of the agrarian districts
4 of the country completed by the
| American farm nu - 1cration to-
day showed a vast change of condi-
tons among the farmers during the
| first week OF the new emergency
tariff law.
| A real back to the farm movement
by the boys who left during the days
| of the full pay envelopes in the fac
tory added to the peace of mind OF
the agriculturist, the survey showed.
Plenty of Help.
| Farmers according to reports are
securing plenty of help at wages
much below last years.
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| equal footing with other American in
| dustries," said J. w. Cloverdale, Sec
retary of the American Farm Bureau
| Federation.
Farmers realize the new tariff will
act on price deflation and will prevent
the dumping of cheap foreign crops
| on the American markets.
THE opportunities of the farmers
| will be equalized with those of foreign
lands who secure their labor at cost
vastly below that in this country.
| Start New Era.
! There has always been a feeling
among farmers that they were dis
| criminated against because most other
industries were protected and theirs
was not. This feeling has now been
| removed; new era has started
Cloverdale said that 16,000,OOO
bushels of corn were exported last
year and 100000 imported. The
imported corn, he said, served as a
leverage to break prices, leaving losses
instead of profits