Show The Cause of High Priced I f Farm Products i BACK TO THE The condition of high prices Availing today throughout the lation has assumed an alarming to the extent that the people of the entire country are forked up to a very high Mass meetings and conventions are being held throughout the large cities and a general crusade s already on Juggled Stock as to the general auses of the radical advance of Rood commodities are being made trough out the the result of which is that many general causes di high prices have been that demonstrate to the public that food stuffs are being juggled with as badly as are the stocks and bonds of street markets but why should that condition so affect our local home as it I The Real I It is a fact that the production of food supplies in our particular region of country is inadequate to meet the local This is a deplorable much to the shame of a country like adapted as it is to support a million One striking fact is which is that farming in our section is not increasing at a rate sufficient to cope with the rapid growth of the Leaving the There is a general tendency to move from the farm to the larger which brought about by the educational and social inducements offered and while this is producing wonderful I results along intellectual and social it is done too largely at the sacrifice of the The Farm The writer has spent the last year in the capacity of a commer cial during which time many of the foregoing mentioned j conditions have come under his The farmer i generally is producing little more than a sufficient 1 amount to defray his farm expenses and to educate his We Should Not A very large majority of Utah's population are who could easily produce a surplus of many million dollars' worth of hams and bacon instead of this there were last year imported into this three hundred carloads of hams and bacon at the alarming price of which amount of good money was shipped out of our There were also imported forty carloads of aggregating ten carloads of poultry that aggregated together with many other such statistics of equal alarming Each One Gets a In face of the it is evident that our local consumption must pay the Kansas farmer a good fat price for his then it passes through the hands of a series of commission brokers then the unjust freight being nearly double the amount it would cost to lay the same down in San Francisco plus the profits made by our local commission and retail with the result that by the time it reaches our tables the price has been juggled up until it is almost impossible for a laboring man to meet the necessary family Farmers Getting Double That the eastern prices of products f. o. b. Salt Lake City are a basis that govern local prices is clearly to the extent that today the farmer is getting nearly double for his products over what he was receiving a few years ago but is he to be blamed for getting the highest market Certainly Go Back to the The remedy is back to the and make our country produce what a population the size of together with the most wonderful soil fertility we should and will produce with proper instead of having to depend on eastern markets for our food we would be exporting millions of dollars' worth of our surplus that are now being imported and sold on our local markets at prices beyond all For the prevailing condition let as a blame none but for we have the remedy in our We are juggling with bonds and other get-rich-quick and that in face of the fact that there is nothing so sure and better paying than the What is required today is a state-wide movement toward applying the remedy that will not only return food products to normal but will develop our thousands of acres of partially tilled land as well as to bring many other thousands of acres of virgin land that is but waiting the hand of the husbandman into Farming the Best Farming at normal is a better paying proposition than any other business in the If properly handled it will pay a larger dividend than the best investment that can be found and at the same time is a guaranteed In the days of Napoleon the great need of France was and while they are greatly in demand the present crying need of our valleys is O. F. |