Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-05-30
Ag. Commissioner Speaks
At Creamery Gathering
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other parts Of the state increased
their volume over the previous We ar
The total sales of dairy products
for the district were $2,749,O12.55 as
compared to $2,434 ,967.91 for 1888, an
increased income of $314,O44.64 which
is approximately $50 per patron. The
average price received for butter in
1894 was 24.12 cents as compared
with 2O.16 cents for 1888 The aver
age price paid for butterfat in 1884
was 1851 cents per pound as com-
pared with % cents for 1888.
Decreased Volume Raises Cot.
Due to a decreased volume, said Mr..
Trovatten, the average production cost
per pound for the district increased
from 2.49 cents per pound in 1888 to
ESQ cents per pound in 1884 CLASH
fed as to volume the average produc-
tion costs are as follows:
Five plants under 10000 pounds,
3.5S cents per pound; 10 plants 10000
to 100000 pounds, 1888 cents; II plants
100000 to 100000 pounds, 241 cents;
plants 100000 to 100000 pounds
2.37 cents, and 1 plant over 100000
pounds had production cost of 81
cents per pound.
Only one creamery in the entire
district of 80 creameries had an over
run higher than the statutory limit.
For Better Cooperation.
The speaker admonished his listen
ers to live up to the principles of
cooperation and not go back to the old
competitive system by trying to get
patrons away from your neighboring
creamery. AS soon as you do that
there will be trouble. If you have to
bride patron to haul cream to your
creamery then you are doing that
which you started out to stop, said
Trovatten.
| If the farmers will see their own
institutions do right then the state
department will need only to be an
educator and advisor instead of a po-
lice officer. The best way to keep
the laws is to do right at home
I'VE have shut down on immigra-
tiOn." said the speaker, 80 that
cheaper labor will not come in to
compete with our labor, but at the
same time we have allowed the i'm
portation of products produced in for
eign countries by peon labor and hu-
man slavery to compete with our
farmers"
We have 81 million on federal re-
lief and Is million unemployed, yet
we import the very things that these
men and women should be producing
under an American standard of living
not under Asiatic standards. We
have no objection to that part of the
international trade that is the natural
result of our civilization and inter-
course among nations. The total for
eign trade is only six per cent of our
total commerce, and if we eliminate
the international manufacturers, it is
only three per cent. During this de-
preston we have lost less than four
per cent of our volume in agricultural
mineral and manufactured production
through the collapse of foreign trade
but we have lost from 1870 to $3.50
of manufactured goods in our home
market. The excess of our exports
over our imports at present amounts
to less than one-half of one per cent
of our total commerce. Why waste
concessions on these small percent
ages on foreign trade, asked the
speaker. when the big percentages are
forgotten. Develop our home mar
kets: we are too international minded
Why do Farmers Have to Pay!
Wallace stated at the Grange con-
vention in substance that he favored
unrestricted production. provided our
imports exceeded our exports suf-
ficiently to service the foreign debt
'Why do farmers have to pay VIII at
foreign nations owe u.s." asked the
speaker
Farmers are told that it will be nee
essary to abandon 40 million acres OF
farm land in order to get more for
eign trade for our international bank
ers and manufacturers. The depart
ment of commerce reports that in
1894 we imported agricultural prod
ucts and substitutes therefor. which
would require 60 million acres to pro-
duce. Therefore. in place of reducing
the acreage in the amount of 40 mil
lions, we should increase it 60 mil
lions.
Mr.. Trovatten then went on to show
the staggering amounts of importa.
tions which have been brought into
this country and summed it IN BY
asking. "are we more interested in
foreign nations than we are our own
The real trouble is maldistributior
and underconsumption In 3S years
we sold 26 billion dollars more to for.
eign nations than they have been able
to pay for. In 1893 Also of our totaI
foreign trade represented trading in
debts and not goods The triple A
should be called crippled A.
Cooperation Is Salvation.
Mr.. Trovatten said we are learning
here that we are about all the same
kind of ppOple even though we are nj