Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 17, 1910, Page 13

Too Many Toll Gates Between Producer and Consumer (Written Specially for The Unlike some of the vndertake Tides Ho-an-Bo undertake to find out | lothealine In the have ability and the report- i they could o M there's & whole ot of us w ' the ev're Al ronning wpectre of hredly vineingly Wall, Mr. " ' it tell ' tides floa 2t till hunt for himself on the of how much of th Ho coukdn't ma farming com- | + regular m a few special < able to put on the job, » farmers’ Milk was ons of the products 'ood ind tha n v lar whic !\ the av for his m ot an ave It would appear from these facts that milk n’ ther the “ Vn the case of potatoes, indispensable The Important Problem confronting anyoue in need of a laxa- tive is not & tion only, ficial ef the assistance of Elixir of quired, as gently yet promptly and will preference of all who wish the best ot tamily laxative Tea combi of phys be ¢ giv ( well-informed it for many yea its beneficial effects, always + manufactured by the To get buy the genn California I Florida and Californ freight haulage may { dy with the tremendous Jump on thermn. arte of It or extr rimer bef Wilson was very good farmer rence hetween farmed on pape ain resmelance andem of scared 1y up a ereek & wkill 10 tall only tell it elearly and con Wilson once had some of | 1at working experienc t all out of his Lo case of that Orange count of the dalryman for three cents a quart and sold to the New York city consumer for | rallroad’s eh and he also possesses the abil- i rathar 1l Interest prices we unusual and makes for June Becretary Wils nd In trying to ind out how much hifty n the farmers wressional committes was in broad geperal mibjec production and tak ; for him to cross it | * 3 might look as If he hadn’t ab- wolute fait) dn't quite d blighting diseases. He suppli exacting, unremitting labor 1estion farmers got. of the whole R accupation. Then there | | overprod seventy-eight wr parts of the Htates as he could reach, and got from erop correspondents | cape perils to hie profits and. lling prices for pro- g0 to the cities, and the con- prices for the same uote sold In those eities. 1 out the facts in these representative cases, wrth, south, east the country. Then he ave: ¢ He tound that, on farmers got just about 50 dollar eonsumers pald of every wem stuff. indispensable nvestigated. north cenfral states 44 per cent. of his milk, and that h producing farm 'h- dal y-\v\ en i t being offered any su 8 of the loot, T milk to 20 to the big city and there wold er with or without wa being offered vn ware tering) they < was about seve t beats my record. r nine cents stion of a single ac- permarently which will follow proper efforts to live in a healthful way, without irritation s known to and becauge es who have of the productions which are largely ralged in New England and there- s hotts ted. ‘I'k ges of course heing ex come almost wholly from and the long ve something to | Secretary Wilson finds that the yleldu per acre of nearly all erops are wteadily increasing, wnder the stimulus of better farming meth He de- clares that yie are ving faster than the mormal Incrense of popula- tion. This being wo, high prices for farm products find no excuse ir claime of shortage in supply. The othar facts cited above show that high prices for f roducts find no ex In any false clalms of exorbitant nands by farmers. Furthe show that the muech-abused take really a very small propor tienal toll for thelr absolutely essential «t¥ of transporting stuff from pro- ducer to consumer. Says BSecretary Wilson “3t plain that the farmer iz not an exoroitant . his 8, and that i 0 digtri- n from the ti tinaton by the r ery congumer is the feature of the blem of high prices fch et sent itwelf to the consumer for catment “The cost of distribution.” Take the nilk bought t cen quart. The r '(lvn!«(o trifie over half a cent a the milk cost, dellvered ¢ity, a trifie over three ind a half cents a quart. The other u,‘,w a i or, to put it tie 100 big a of } 1 “The farmer supplies the capital for the risk of hiz losies. Hig crops are at the mercy of drcuth and flood and heat and fro, to say nothing of noxlous insects and A and range of information and in- lemanded by agricuiture egualled in an on and disastrously low prices. ¥rom beginninz to end the farmer must steer dexterous] deed, to his capital on every hand.” Against this »f the icing farmer, ver the whole year and embracing hout evervthing which can poss: happen, the distributor has risks ex- ending over only a day or two and bor lnd these rmkl practically limited to bad credits. He the lion's share of the prey for ioing the mouse’s share of the hunt- ing. Manifestly all this is neither just nor right nor properly tole What to do about al question. Fro icer's point of ailable_recourse is in lling. But that goes only h it does not include co-operat ing. The proc b must get togethe >nsumers buy d from the farmers? A distrib: farm products in this simple w already begun operative org selling by d perative in cities. ut 1ying as- loclruon! amon‘ people of cities and towns are few. Aside from buying associations maintained farmers, hardly any exist in this ntry. It s apparent, therefore, that the con- sumer has much to do to work out his own salvation with regard to the prices he pays fi Wherever producer and consumer get near enough to eac hother to touck and “swap falr, roves y good th Why. right in this pe ¢ the backwoods, the buyers’ price to fruit-growers for table apples arrel. I have a neig to be acqua with the kecper of a boarding h express rates in t freezing and d neverthel a barrel b If sh co-operative buy buy in carload this cost of two-thirds. h able to pay cents a barrel more an cents more than she now The trouble is that there are too y toll-gates potato-bags. We used to have ol our commox now et 1 and the a has come to ight to it ates put several | Lerers temporarily I ha abolition of toll- toll- ness. turb rates They talk about the millions the railroads could save penses by the sclentific eng Ud like to kno ers and the save by the apr old common sense t As of Oid Texas in wt Mr. i wught h « < also r republican M § move of W Haver Relic of the Past. Mayor Gaynor of New York advances w it the same L i and Installed at the annual corom i the: Ladles’ to hold ¥ TOLLAND COUNTY. SOUTH WILLINGTON | | Congregational Sunday Schosl to Hold Christmas Entertainment — Brief Local Notes. Instaliation at Urlnl Lo‘go -_ Pmtm” Up lce Run. | A couple of chimney sweeps hav-s1 been plying their trade in town the Last dnyn, Maso; Instaliation, The following oficers were electe tion of Urlel Lodge, No. 24, ¥. and A M., last Saturday pight: W, M. LAl bridge, W. M.; John U, Pilte 8, W.; Herman D, BEdmond, 1. W.; Wiliam . Hall, treasarer; Walter A. Allen, pec- retary; K. B, ¥itts, 8 D, Edwin 1. Dimock, J. D.; Rev. Leonard Bmith, chaptain; Alva f, Mlevens, B, 8., By ron 1. Houstow, J. #.; EAwin O, Bmith, prarshal, William . Nichols tyler; board of trustees, W, M. Liliforidee, Willlam H. Hall, Walter A. Aller finance committee, Willlam $1. Frack The officers were Deputy Brother H Willimantic, Time for lce Cutting. The exir cold weather of last week and f this has set the Perry Ice ¢ ting up ti rold C. Wiggins of ¥ ice run T wiLL NGTON Ladies’ Aid Society Plans for MNew | Year's Party and Reception. Mr. Gardner preached Sunday ad 4v' the blfl eedness ':1 ll‘nrrg in God's | house. Dwight B. Gardmer returned late last week from his longest western trip of r and ¢ arents and sisters at the iona] parsonage At the TURNERVILLE Surgical Operation. MANSFIELD DEPOT Fire Partly Destroyed Wheelsr Prop- erty—Ladies Hold Sale. GURLEYVILLE Birthday Surprise Party Given Ray- mond Stimpson—Local Notes. 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