The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 29, 1920, Page 16

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Differ- % price per bu. ence New York corn......$1.10 e Towa corn........... .72 38¢ Minnesota corn. ...... ~.712 38¢c New York wheat..... 1.40 G Towa wheat.......... 1.26 14c. Minnesota wheat..... 1.34 6c New York oats...... .58 S Towa oats..... R 44 l4c Minnesota oats...... 44 14c Now as freight rates are based on pounds carried and miles hauled, how is ‘it that the New York farmer gets 38 cents more on his 56-pound bushel of corn than Iowa or Minnesota, and only 6 cents and 14 cents more on his 60-pound bushel of wheat? I think 6 cents is about the legitimate freight on a bushel, but if you call it 14 cents freight that leaves a matter of 24 cents unaccounted for by freights. Then look at oats. Just the ‘same difference in farm prices on 32 pounds of oats as there is on 60 pounds of wheat, or if you figure it roughly at two bushels of oats (64 pounds) the " jeans. difference is 28 cents for two bushels of oats—64 pounds. The freight rate on 32 pounds of oats ought not to be over 7 cents, if you allow 14 cents on 60 pounds of wheat. As a top price, if you take the 6 cents, then the low notch would be 8 cents, an average of about 4% cents. As Mr. Cleveland said, “It is a con- dition not a theory that confronts us.” These differences are not “theories.” They are in cold cash. And they are in somebody’s pocket. Manifestly it is not in the pocket of the Iowa or Min- nesota farmer, and I don’t think it is in the pockets of the railroads. It looks to me as though your mid- dleman was the boy that has it in his He knows you have the sur- plus corn and oats; that you must sell; that the only way out is through his elevator, and he takes ‘advantage of the situation accordingly — which proves that he is only human. Am I right? FRANK WHALEN. Ballston Spa, N. Y.* LIKES LEADER CARTOON Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Your cartoon, “In the Country —In the City,” in the October 18 Leader illus- trates conditions in Wisconsin. People in the cities pay more for a peck of apples than the farmers get for a sack. A few years ago farmers in Calumet county sold hand-picked Duchess ap- ples for 30 cents a bushel, while Mil- waukee merchants asked (and got) 35 cents a peck for windfalls of the same variety. J. M. SEVENICH. Milwaukee, Wis. One Farm Paper Apologizes Admits It Used Manufacturers’ Propaganda Without In- vestigating Truthfulness DITOR Nonpartisan Lead- er: I was both interested and amazed when I read in the Leader that 36 farm papers had con- - sented to take themselves to lend their editorial col- umns to-the purpose of keeping up prices of farm implements. In the October 15 South Dakota Farmer, un- der “Farm Engineering,” was an:arti- cle that was intended to help sell farm tractors, inasmuch as it told of people finding 383 different jobs for their tractors. It was supposed to be an . extract of a bulletin compiled by dif- ferent manufacturers and experiment stations enumerating the different uses a tractor can be put to, and was"’ also not only to educate the salesman to sell the tractors but was intended as much to induce people to buy them, or rather make farmers think they needed the tractor. So I wrote them- telling them that the article in question was surely in- tended to mislead farmers, and hinted farm papers were in league - with manufacturers to maintain high prices. Here is their answer. In using a por- tion of my letter, it goes without say- ing that they will omit the portion in which I state that the object of that article is to help sell tractors at a high price and in which I stated that farm papers are subservient to the manu- facturers of tractors. Wolsey, S. D. A. B. REIDEL. The editor of the Dakota Farmer wrote: “I don’t blame you for criticiz- ing that ‘article on tractors in the Farm Engineering department of Oc- tober 15. I would feel like using stronger language than you did if T were in your place. The fact of the matter is that that copy was prepared PAGE SIXTEEN A : upon from some material sent us by a manufacturer’s representative, just as the article stated, and I intended to have it verified by someone who was informed on the tractor proposition be- fore it went into the paper. However, the matter escaped my attention some way and it was in type and printed be- fore I knew about it. Of course the number of days’ use the tractor is al- . leged to have been put to on Dakota . farms is absurd. I will use a portion ‘of your letter in the Dakota Farmer as soon as possible and will be glad to hear from you agam when you have anything to offer in practical farm propositions.”’ LEADER CARTOON TRUE Editor Nonpartisan Leader: /The cartoon appearing on page 4 of your issue of October 18 is a true pic- ture of the present apple situation. The retailer appears to be incapable of reducing fhe price below 5 cents each; regardless of the wholesale price. This prevents the natural operation of the law of supply and demand, which would ordinarily move all this fruit into rapid consumptlon and give poor people a chance to enJoy some of the luxuries of life. The inclosed reprint regardmg the North Dakota Potato exchange, and the inclosed circular will give you a concrete illustration of how the North American Fruit exchange is improving conditions by shortening the route be- tween producers and consumers in such a way as to give the producer a much larger share of the profit on the prod- uce. NORTH AMERICAN FRUIT EX- CHANGE By W B. Rule, Secretary. New York. ;