Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 24, 1914, Page 12

~ TO FARMERS ERS GOVERNMENT FIGURES AND WHAT THEY SUGGEST : (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) Certain reports on crops and prices, recently made by government bureaus, afford emggestion for some thought. Among them I notice a compilation of the average prices paid to farmers who supply milk to twenty-six of the larger cities of the nation. For the year the average price paid the milk Producers to keep these twenty-six cities going was three and a half cents @ quanf This was what they got for the milk, canned and delivered on cars at their railroad stations. Three and 2 half cents a quart! 1 it The government does not furnish statistics as to what that milk sold to consumers for. But from independent sources some idea can be secured. It would take too long for me to collate all this scattered data. They are not conclusive, even when collated. .But they afford an approximation. They enable us to get some idea of how the thing works to the conmstant bilking of the dairyman, the mulcting of the milk-buyer, and the ultimate gain .of the peculafors in between. The average price which the con= sumers in these twenty-six big cities had to pay for the milk which the farmers got three and a half cents a Qquart for, was not far from nine cents 2 quart. Some little sold as:low-as seven cents: some little as high as twelve cents—Mind you, this isn’t cer- tified bottled milk that were talking .about, which everywhere sold for much more, but just common milk in cans, dipped out by the pint or quart as de- sired—The average wasn't far from nine cents a quart to the consumer. That is, the farmer who provided the cows, and supplied their feed and housing, and paid for the milking, and furnished the cans, and did the hard- est and most costly part of the haul- station, got three and a half cents:— the raiiroads, on an average, got about half a cent a quart for taking to the city:—and the city distributors got an average of five cents a quart for the use of a horse and a cart and two tin dippers! Or, to put it another way, the con- sumer who wanted a quart of milk | for her baby paid three cents and a half for the milk and five cents and a half to the man who passed it around! This is very much like going into a restaurant, ordering ham and eggs at thirty-five cents, and then ‘“tipping” the waiter with fifty-five cents more. I don’t think the cafe which regu- lated its food rates and its “tipping” schedule on this plan would attract a yery wide public custom. 1t doesn’t requirs argument,—it needs only stating to ‘show forth the inherent wrongfulness, not to say out- right wickedness of any system which makes the mere incident of casual service more costly than the thing served. Personally, | dont care much about it. I'm not in the milk business. I keep only one little cow and supply only one customer outside the family. That customer pays five cents a quart for her milk and comes after I get five cents a quart, at my own door. She saves four cents from the average city price: I get a cent and a half more than the average dairyman’s re- ceipt. We're both fairly satisfied. The reason simply is that consumer is dealing directly with producer, to the manifest advantage and economy and comfort of both. Of course, she couldn't come after the milk if she lived forty miles from my barn, which is about the average distance of the dairies from the cities they supply. In that case she must expect to pay something to have other folks bring the milk to her. But it is absurd and outrageous that she should be charged more for the mere inciden- tal handling of the milk between the dairy .and her door than for the milk itself. This is not only putting the cart before the horse: it iS pretending that the half is worth more than the ‘whole. Some other figures about New Eng- land crops and prices seem to me to have interest for us farmers. Accord- ing to the crop reports for Nov. 1, which have now been tabulated, the average corn yield per acre last sea- son was 38 bushels in Maine; 37 in New Hampshire; 37 in Vermont; 401-2 in Massachusetts; 361-2 in Rhode Island; and 381-2 in Connecti- cut. This runs pretty even, consid- ering. You'll observe that Connecticut ranks second in productiveness, Mass- achusetts leading her by only two bushels to the acre, while the quality of the Connecticut_crop is rated at 77 per cent of perfection, which is two per cent higher than the Massachusetts rating and the very highest in all New England. Moreover, Connecticut, with a smaller farm area than any other of the six states except Rhode Island, produced 2,348,000 bushels against 1,944,000 bushels in Massachusetts and still lesser yields in all the other states of New England. Connecticut, with orly 4,845 miles of area, produced al- most three times as much corn as New Hampshire with 9,005 square miles, and almost four times as much as Maine, with its 29,895 square miles. Why, say, that’s not a bad showing for us Nutmeggers! Despite the ap- parent impossibility of waking up any general interest over corn in this east- ern part of the state, it seems clear that farmers in other counties must be doing a little suthin’ with the ing, i. e. from his barn to the railroad | STeatest American cereal. When it comes to potatoes, though, the grin will have to Connecticut_faces. The 3 per acre in Maine, last season, was 220 bushels: in New Hampshire 120 bush- | els; in Vermont 127 bushels; in Mass- achusetts 105 bushels; in Rhode Is- land 125 bushles; in Connecticut,—I wish The Bulletin had some extra small diamond type about the size of a flea’s forefoot, to set the next figure in! —in Ccnnecticut 92 bushels. The average price of potatoes to the producers is stated to have been 82 cents per bushel in this state, which is the highest given for any of the six states. The average selling price in Maine was only 50 cents a bushel. _ Right there shines a suggestive side- light on the question of whether it Pays to raise big crops or mot. At the average price of cents a bushel, the average Connecticut potato acre brought in to its cultivators a gross amount of §74.44. At an average price of 50 cents a bushel the average Maine potato acre brought in to its cultiva- lor a gross amount of $110. Here's an ctual increase of gross income of $35 an acre, though the crop sold at 32 cents less per bushel Of course, this mustn’t be taken as exactly’ measuring the increased pro- fit from the larger yield. The average Maine potato grower may have spent more per acre on fertilizer or labor or both than the average in Connecticut. But, knowing something of the meth- ods and make-up of farmers in both states, I don't believe the difference amounted to $35 an acre,—or a quarter of $35. 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There- fore their producers are able to com- mand the higher prices which always obtain wnen demand exceeds supply. Altogether, these government figures seem to me to bear out, or at least fortify two of the arguments I have been urging, i. e. that it is good bus- iness for farmers to increase their pro- duction wherever they can do so with- out its costing them more than the in- crease will ‘fetch,’ and second, that it is also good business for farmers to study their local markets and try to supply them with what they call for. Maine has more hay and more pota- toes than it can sell in its own limits. Consequently, the price for both is low. Connecticut has less potatoes and less hay than its own markets demand. Consequently the price for both is high. If every Connecticut acre planted to Connecticut and $21.50 a ton in Massa- i potatoes last ‘ 'l;ii Y 321,00 8 Lon 1 AR g e 330 Dushels: P 34 of 92," the ry i 1 have been le: han the demand the little state’s own markets. There is no reason to Goubt that such an in. creased crop could have béen sold, right at home, for mighty close to the actual ruling figure of 82 cents per bushel. It could not hlvfueloyad the market; —would have still- been in- sufficient for the market's actual de- mands. s As | figure it, iIf Connecticut's pota- to flelds had yielded as high an aver- e mer acre as Maine's, and the crop had still been all taken up by local markets at prevailing prices, the po- tato-growers of the state would have got for their tubers about $2,250,000 more than they did. And do you really suppose it would have cost them two millions and a quarter to do it? . For my part, 'm rather inclined to think that they couldn’t possibly have done it in just one year, no matter how much they spent. I am equally in- clined to think that by a persistent and intelligent. course of soil culture, in- volving wiser fertilization, larger use of clover, etc., they could in a few years bring their potato yields up to an average of 200 bushels or better. “Rome wasn’t built in a day.” No, indeed: but it was built, just the same. And it was some city, too, when completed. Worth spending quite a le time over. Hphe THE FARMER. RiCiiMOND Christian Endeavor Officers of Shan- nock Baptist Church—Enumerating School Children, The Christian Endeavor connected with the Second Baptist church of Shannock has elected the following officers and committees for the ensu- ing six months: President, Clarence Hopkins: vice president, Miss Sarah King; recording secretary, Blanche Meadoweroft; treasurer, William Mun- cey; organist, Arthur Barber; assist- ant’ organist, Sylvia Bowler: prayer meeting committee, Charles S. Weaver, Ruth Cornell, Arthur Barber; lookout committee, Mrs. William Hopkins, Blanche Meadowcroft, William Kim- ber; social committee, Mrs. Charles Tucker, Charles Cornell, Miss Flor- ence Barber; missionary committee, Miss Gertrude Kimber, Andrew Moore, Clarence Hopkins. Pgrsonal Mention. Mrs. W, J. Dawley of West King- ston was the guest of Mrs. B. B. Moore Saturday. : Miss Mary Brown spent Sunday with friends at Hillside, Mr. and Mrs. George E. B. Jamés spent Sunday in Westerly. A missionary conference was held at the Shannock church Monday. School Enumeration. Bradford B, Moore is engaged in tak- ing the census of the school children of the town. : Miss Barbara Oatley of Carolina is teaching in Wyoming. WEEKAPAUG Salt Pond Frozen Over—Good Catches of Eels. Thomas Wilbur of Montville is th guest of Mr. and Mrs, W. §. Gavitt. Several children in the Dunn’s Cor- ners school are out sick. Salt Pond Frozen. The cold weather of the past week has frozen the salt pond so that quite a number of men have been able to Washington County, R. I.| | afternoon with | LETTERS FROM TWO STATES make some good catches of ecls through the ice. Mrs. Leon W. Bliven spent Saturday Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Both are over eighty years Rathbun. old but are enjoying the best of health. The younz people here have been enjoying fine skating the past week. Meeting Postponed. On account of the extreme cold of last week the Ocean View W. C. T. did not meet with Mrs. C. A. Lool boro as was planned. The next meet- ing will be with Mrs. Louise Peck- ham at her home In Quonochontaug next Wednesday afternoon. USQUEPAUGH C. D. Kenyon spent Wednesday in Providence. Mrs. George Sherman of Kingston was .a caller here Tuesday. dirs. Richard Barstow and daughter spent Tuesday at Hope Valley. John K. Lamond and family of Mid- dletown, Conn., are spending the week at J. G. Lamond’s. ; Sunday school Sunday morning with a better attendance than usual. Church service in the morning, as usual. Fred Clarke and family of Arctic, accompanied by George Hoxsie, were visitors at J. G. Lamond's Tuesday. William Sutton has recovered from | his recent iliness. George Hargraves of Wakefleld was through Wednesday. ROCKVILLE of Wilbur Aged Parents Lonely. Funeral The funeral of Wilbur Leonard, died at Woody Hill January 15, held Monday at the home of his par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Leonard. Rev. A. G. Crofoot officiated. Burial was in Rockville cemetery. Sympathy is felt for the aged parents now left alone. They moved from Iowa about three years ago. Mrs. A. C. Crandall who has been iil is some better. Mary Sunderland of Wickford the guest of her brother, Benjamin r was in Providence on YANTIC HAPPENINGS Good Coasting Improved—Pleased Audience at Entertainment in Chapel Rooms Wednesday Evening. Mrs. Mary Ladd has returned to Elmwood after spending the past month with her daughter, Mrs. Balch of Manchester. Excellent Coasting, The first good sliding of the year was enjoved Wednesday when the rain which covered Tuesday night's fall ing. MANY AT SOCIAL. Seven Ages of Woman Capitally Pre- sented at Grace Chapel Rooms. Although Wednesday evening proved somewhat disagreeable, over a I dred assembled in the Grace chap to enjoy the first social of the The entertainment provided wa Seven Ages of Woman. The first ‘was Babyhood, an attractive nu setting and a concealed chorus Rock-a-bye Baby. The next sce Childhood, showing s room with the following children pla ing: Marion Gibbs, Lila Smith, Char- lotte Bentley, Marvin H Gibbs and Hermon J. Childhood, in good voice, the chorus. The third scene lege Days, showing a typical college girl's room gaily decorated with ban- ners and the following girls having a Misses Sybil Kil- n Gilbert, Venie iola Woodworth, Gardner, Helen Manning. A col- midnight spread: roy, Mary Lord H Bogue, Lucy Bishop, Edna Bentley, Janet Gardner and Lois: lege song, Cheer, Girls, Cheer, was sung was given for shown in an old fashioned New Eng- land sitting room. Bdna Bentley was courted by Frederick F. Manning while The sixth scene showed The Age of Motherhood, showing the nursery with Mrs. Lila Chivers as the mother sing- ing The Slumber Boat to the sleepy infant. Scene No. T was Old Age, very at- tragtively portrayed by Mrs. Seymour Quinley and Marion Gibbs. The scene was a peaceful sitting room. Seymour Quinley sang in clear voice, Silver Threads Among the Goid, assisted by the chorus. After the tableaux the chorus, Mrs. George Adams, Mrs. Edward Carpen- ter, Mrs. Howard Bishop, Mrs. Lila Chivers, Mrs, Peter Vanderwaart and Peter Vanderwaart and Seymour Quin- ley, sang So Blame Yourself If You're Sold, and We All Have a Very Bad Cold, which won much applause, Cake and coffee were served by the refreshment committee: Mrs. Charies Congdon, Mrs, Charles Carpenter, Mrs. Eugene Austin, Mrs. Edward Smith, Mrs. Carl Sevin, Mrs. Willard and Miss Rudd. The entertainment was in charge of Mrs, George Adams, Mrs. Howard Bishop, Mrs. H. J. Gibbs, Mrs. Sey- mour Quinley, Mrs, Edward Carpen- ter, Mrs, Lila’ Chivers and M Vahderwaart, who made the s ning a great success : Miss Olive Carpenter accompanied the singers. Later games were en- joyed by the Young peoble. . Peter ial eve- Woodbury—The tchfield County Univel y club will hold its annual midwinter banquet in the town hall in ! Woodbury, Friday, Jan, 30, of snow, hardened, making good slid- Mrs. W. E. 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Hall, one of Danbury—Concordia in the state, the finest lodge building: was dedicated by the Concordia Soci- ety, a German organization, Tuesday night, over 5,000 people attending the exercises. Redding—The general store of J . Sanford at Redding center, in which the village post office was located, was destroyed by fire Tuesday with a loss of $3,000. The property was not in- sured, the policy having lapsed re- cently. Norwalk—Rev. E. W, Caswell, father of the pastor of the Norwalk M. E. church, Rev. L. 11, preached before that congregation Sunday. This was his seventieth birthday sermon, it being his custom to deliver it at his son’s church. Waterbury—That Sophie Kritchman, Union City murderess, has regained her health, and that the governor will The True Source of Beauty is, and must be, good health. 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