Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 7, 1913, Page 9

Friday, March 7 MARKETING OF Recommendations of Department of Agriculture Following Investigation—The Demands and the Position of the Consumer and the Middleman—Proposals to Aid Public. Systems of marketing farm proeducts &nd the demand for them at trade centers are the subjects of a special report to Congress by the Secretary :\f Agriculture, recently published. fhe report was made by special dl- rection of Congress in order that in- formation might be at hand concerning the establishment of a division of mar- kets.in the Department of Agriculture, The Secretary specifies various items ©of service that could be performed by | such an office, with recommendations that they be adopted, if it Is created. The report covers 331 pages and is crowded with information with regard | to the subjects treated. By Producers to Consumers The report treats of the movement of farm products from the farm to consu- mer through great varifety of chan- nels. The simplest distribution is the direct one of delivery by farmer to con- sumer, the next after this is the deliv- ery by individual farmers or associa- tlons of farmers to individual consum- ers or associations of consumers. these direct forms of distribution, the middieman is eliminated, although of course intermediate services are per. formed by producers or by consumers or by both parties. Intervention of Middlemen. Among the varieties of middiemen concerned in the marketing of farm products are the traveling hucksters, | who go from farm to farm gathering eggs, butter, poultry, calves, and other commodities, which they sell tg ship- pers, jobbers, or retail dealerf. The country merchant is often the firstre- celver of such products as eggs, farm- made butter, poultry, wool, hides, cot- ton, and sometinges grain and hay. In vegions where grain is the staple pro- duct, the tendenc has been to dis- place the country merchant by the grain buyer and the local elevator man. Farmers commonly sell through com- misfon merchants and to some extent directly to wholesale dealers and also to retail dealers. The farmer who em- ploys a trustworthy commission mer- chant who will handle his- products | | honestly and honorably will get the current prices for them within the range of the commission merchant's business, but the farmer often finds himself in the hands of a commission merchant who falsely reports that the products were received in damaged condition or that they were of a grade lower than they were in fact, or here- | In | 4 FARM PRODUCTS retail merchant. In the sale of fruit by auction, which is common in large cities east of the Mississippi River, the auc tioneer is an additional middleman. e may sell for a commission dealer, to whom the consignmn have been™ made by a country buyer; and the pur- chaser at such an auction may be a jobber, who in turn sells to a retail mer- chant. Five middlemen are thus con- cerned in such a tranac Onions raised in Kentucky are some- times bought by a local merchant and shipped to Louisville; here they may be put into sacks and consigned to a New York wholesaler or a commision man who in turn sells to a New York retailer. Eggs and poultry frequent- 1y pass through the hands of atleast four middlemen. The marketing of clover seed is an example of a transfer from one farmer to another through & number of middle- men. The fi middieman may be an | Indiana jobber, who consigns to { mission dcaler in Toledo, O seed may be purchased by a merchant | to a wholesale dealer in a The last middleman in of distribution is a country vy dealer in agricult- shipy distant | | | | | | o Public market piices \blished | in a number of cities wns, and | in | these places consume may buy | such articles as fruit, végetables,dairy | t from products, pouitry and eggs dire: | tarmers as well as from dealer. | Another institution which aids the producer to dispose of his crop is the public_warehouse. II | are afforded in th | bacco in Virginia : | wool from the | tain States, and t | their duce, | houses. Diversion in T farm D fo Try This That’s simply because Cotfolene is richer than either’lard or butter. makes better food, too—food free from grease and indigestion—food that is light and crisp and flaky — food that digests easily and does you ‘good Cottolene contains no hog fat. Itisa vegetable product— ade from choicest cotton oil. ttolene Nature made it, and Nature knows what is good for human stomachs. Don’t cry any more about the high cost of living until you have practised the economy which the use of Cottolene will enable. card lard altogether, discard butter except for your table, and use all shortening and frying. The results, as well as the economy, you thankful for having read this advertisement. GINGER DROPS Cream one-half cup of Cottolene with one-half cup of sugar and add one cup of molasses. Beat into this two and one-half cups of flour Cottolene is required It - Cofttolene vill make ports receiving prices lower than those |, nctually received by him for the pro- | ducts. Worse than this, it is by nomeans | ., j7an rare that the commission merchant has scld the products and failed to re- | Recipe B85 sifted with a teaspoon each of salt and cinnamon, also a tablespoon of ginger. Add two wel.l beaten eggs and three fourths of a cup of boiling water, in which two teaspoons of soda have been dissolved. $urn the net proceeds. Samples of trapsactions in which only one middleman intervenes between producer , and consumer include the ecommission man at a large market who receives consignments of live stock from the farmers and sells to packers; the factor to Wwhom the planter consigns his rice or cotton and from whom purchases are made by mil. fers: the wa p ma: the sale of a Virgin #0. The intervention of two x producer and consumer i pccurence. Fruits and veg often marketed through the = gmiddleman, the ssion dealer #nd a retail mer: More Than Two Intermediaries. A geries of three middlemen may in- elude first the local buy 4, . Grows Beautiful, Heavy Hair---25 Destroys Dandruff—Stops Falling Hair-—Cleans and Ins ates Your Scalp—Delightful Dressing. To be possessed of a head of heavy, beautiful hair; soft, lustrous, . fluffy, wavy and free from dandruff is m 1y a matter of using a little Dande It is easy and inexpensive to h nice, soft hair and lots of it. Just get a 25 cent bottle of Danderine now—all drug stores rec ommend it—apply a little as directed end wit ten minutes there will be nce of abundance; fresh- an incomparable as you will a trace dandruff or but your real surprise will ine. ve | Knowlton’s | age. The | togethe: dnct taining it is prac |te sell in m 1 not the ined to | ons for their Keting of the Department’s . be made a short so that the far- ind a fairly de lume of the crop m | : | Estimates of_Fruit and Vegstable Sup- | ¢ i ply. rded shou he cot v in order that occupy a place in the market fair to the consume Gener: se 1s not | arket new, If su recomm ived fro: mous. ation hin “Dandering” Cent Field Agents and Correspondents. It corps of trav- elin large corps of & field A0 local agents and correspondents be es- | tabiished for the following i £ ser- | i ¥ rga - to examine and n the of gor- difficultie >ting to help produce report the curre of crops, in ad- done by the to condition to the work already ing service; to n be T ) weeks rtment’s crop repor | you will ir—f the probable production of re ime before harvest; to at f 101t P t de out all over to report producing to prinsipal mar- ~ of ¢ wre for itchy o stop falling h If you want to soft your hai onc bve how prelty and ten a cloth ubjects for Investigation. jects whose investi- {with a d carefully | storage of draw it throus | small strand = their sale :\1!1 be soft, ion dealer; just a few rketing, properly item- tpr rd compared with prices of pro- at the farm and with consum- prices: a description of principal markets and of chief producing region and some problems of transportation. Some information with regard to foreign markets, it is advised, might be | made useful to producers. It is pro- | posed also to keep an elaborate record of prices of farm products in which prices at the farm shall be paralleled by whole- sale and retaii prices. Among the other recommendations are the maintenance From East tins 25¢ Our Hans is in the public eye, Our Rona’s in the public mou Then hail to “Hans Across The Sea.’ The children’s Benefactor he! st VAN HOUTEN'S - RON IMPORTED DUTCH Cocoa of a list of marketing associations; and the collections of statistics concerning the businegs done by them; the invest_ fgation of 'systems of marketing farm products in other countries, with special attention to those features which it may be assumed might be adopted benefic— ially in this count: Proposal to Aid Consumers. The Secretary of Agriculture closes his recommendations by making one concerning the participation of consum- ers in the solution of marketing prob- lems. “A cheapening of farmers’ costs of marketing will naturally result in gain to the producer rather thaa to the consumer. If the consumer is to gain by changes in the costs of distribution, it seems probable that he must do so through cheapening or ellminating costs at his end of the chain of distri- bution. The consumers can cheapen the costs of farm products by cooperative buying amd by reducing the expenses toWest, from Norith to South § Bn’ke in muffin pans in very moderate oven. These are particularly tender and delicate and may be served as individual puddings with sweetened cream. Made only by THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY papers. There are listed in the pub- lication office seven periodical among them The Quarte rnal At Harvard, the first move mbridge, for The Uni Cambridge, the pri that distinetion to determine press in ity Press of corporation, It may be hard where, in the ecarly da the lost control and the private entered, for the two insti worked hand in hand for T The printing _press, hand was _brought to country 1638. Joseph Glover to be master printer. press and ty but dled d jo claims way of extension will be the occupa- | tion of the entire basement of Uni- versity Hall, in place of about two- | thirds of the basement now d by | the printing offic Most of the work is, and will continue to be done Dby hand. ‘ It improbable that the Harvard | University Press will set itself up 1 the lin descendant of the i | | | in the first h hi es Tondon voyaze. man in the r, landed and set u n Cambridge. | Rev. Her en president | of Harvard, mar lover's widow, | and took the press to his home, sup- posed to the site of the | present M t hus _the | name—Uni ress. shen Day | tppears to have remained with the ant. In 1658, Samuel Green had succeed- ed to the proprietorship of the Press, and between 1661 and 1663, suth with new types s t over from land, he p st the New Testa- ©Old Testament rentls ment and the roviding printing s be ) in any town in this s no Cambridge” M in 1701, and after a lapse of six the Press w 1gain establ | the college and was maintained 1 or by private interests until 1803, The college catalogue of 1803 w: undoubtedly printed at The Univers ity Press, and the catalogue of 1805 shows that William Hilllard was in charge of the printing at that tlme. | In 1 , an edition of Dalzel's “Collec- | tanea G Majora” contains be- | sides Hil s name, that of Hlias | Two vears later, Charles | 3 of the «c of f the college from identified with the Press, and scholarship did much to increase the high reputation | it had already gained for accuracy of retail and other local distribution. The consumer’s .aspect of the prob. lems of the distribution of farm: pro- ducts 1s a conspicuous one at the present time, and preblems in distri- bution that are concerning the consu- er rather than the producer may well be inciuded within the service of a divis- ion of markets.” FIRST PRINTING PRESS BROUGHT TO THIS COUNTRY. Was At Oone Time in This City— Now At Montpelisr Vermont. The establishment of the Harvard University Press, at ence raises the question as to why Harvard has net before this time done mere extensive publieation werk writes N, Q, M. in the Besten Transeript, To be sure, the University has fer seme years maintained A a publicatien efflee in University Hall, but mest eof its eut- put has been annual catalogues, de- pariment pamphlets and examinatienl ell were firt issued from the Press. and excellence of workmanship. At this time nearly all the textbooks used in the college were printed there, Mr. Folsom was called the “Harvard Aldus,” and during his proprietor- | ship ooks were pz‘int('d_ Hebre ,1‘ Greek. Latin, French. Italian, German and Spanish, Other publications /in- cluded S ‘s edition of Wasi ton’s writi and his Blography,” and Prescott" In 1842, the Press_passed hands of Charles R. Metcalf, Omén S. Keith and George Nichols. Mr. Met- calf had been foreman since 1824, and the printing office during this period | was in Holoyoke street. Withinja | rear or twe, Mr, Keith retired and | farshall 'F, Bigelow entered the firm Tn 1859, the firm mame was changed te Weich, Biszelow & Ceo., and during | the siieceeding years the productions of Holmes, Sparks, Preseott, Ticknor, Paifrey, Judge Story, Quincy, Everett, Hilliard, Dana, Longfellow, Haw- therne, Whittier, Emerson and Low- Ridgefield—Princs, for 23 years the faithful R. Jobhn Wilson 1d his on, friend and work horse of ‘W. Osborn, dled at the age of 33 He knew his mas- poration in of ¥conomics, The Har tural Quarterly, It is apparent nd word and always Review and The part of the nearly him, Review. These periodicals, past, Harvar niv | are printed for the most { how or the college printing office. Besides | Unive r | the periodic ral books, the “umum:mn -The Hlly Pr | % ] roduct of bear | has on its let a shield similiar | { here again Har has sought z- | the shield double-bordered | | er printing »s than have been | circle with the inscription, stab - e Vi i & OnePia | afiorded by limited plant in Uni- ¥ >y Stephen I Al e are versity Hall. printing pre which Stephe e R Highest Lenses. No Cement; e Type No Lines of Sep- don.. and Norwich, Coxyn. |§ aration. Thence i D in Dresden, now | Noi Dronsing. 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