Show t I I Communication Editor From what little investigation I can carry carr on onI onI onI I am led to believe that these high prices of food products we are having are general all over the world I receive re receive receive reports from Germany Denmark and England and meats butter and other products seem high in those countries also The basis of oi cost of meats butter poultry eggs and other products lies exclusively in the cost of wheat and corn and you OU will find the relative in increase Increase increase crease in all food products corresponds exactly with the increase in wheat and corn In fact these products have increased in increased increased creased in value at a greater rate of proportion than have finished food products If you will check back ten years ears and twenty years ears you will find this theory is correct The price of a bushel of wheat and a bushel of cornis corn cornis cornis is really established in the European markets where our surplus is sold namely Liverpool and London In these markets we compete with all of the wheat and corn producing coun tries in the entire world When the Kansas and Missouri farm farmer er is paid 65 cents a bushel for his cornand corn cornand cornand and a dollar a bushel for his wheat he will sell same instead of feeding it to livestock and it is true that the farm farmers farmers farmers ers in Denmark Holland and France buy hundreds of millions of bushels of wheat and corn in these they feed to dairy stock hogs and cattle cat cattle cattle tle and market their butter beef and pork in England in competition with the United States These European farmers can do this and make it up by being scientific farmers and thorough thoroughly ly understanding farm work and then it is my opinion that before permanent relief comes the farmers in our state and all states must learn to farm bet better better better ter They must become more scientific and when they do I will venture to say that we can double if not treble the production on the farm and the farmers will make more money and be beable beable beable able to sell cheaper We must also realize that the Eu European European European countries are receiving their theirs spare share s are of the prosperity wave that has abne ne all over the world in recent years and the people of England Germany German Denmark and France and other countries coun countries countries tries are living much better and se securing securing securing curing more of the good things to eat than they did in former years I well remember in my childhood days how my good old parents had to figure and economize in order to raise ralso us children There were ten of us and we very seldom had meat more than once during the week days das and then thenon on Sunday Sunda and the balance of our meals consisted more or less of a vegetarian vegetarian vegetarian etarian diet but we always had good butter and bread pancakes buckwheat gruel potatoes and carrots went Yent a long longway longway longway way with a little butter on top of it Oleomargarine was known in those days but it never found a friend at atour atour our house and we figured pretty close About 7 j or 8 cents a pound was the price of oleomargarine in those days I Iwonder Iwonder Iwonder wonder if the people or consumers inthis in inthis inthis this section realize that when they pay 30 cents for oleomargarine that they are contributing to the greatest graft ever known Just keep in mind that oleomargarine is made up of about 50 per cent refined cottonseed oil about 35 per cent oil made from tallow and about 15 per percent percent percent cent neutral lard Oleo is retailing ret in Kansas City at 20 cents a pound and andas andas i as low as 17 f cents 1 I hope there may be a few thoughts in this letter for your readers The cry against the middlemen does not come with good grace from anyone lo located located located in a large city What is a city made up of Any An large city or for that matter any sized city is made up of middlemen If there are peo people people people in Salt Lake City today t d Y at least people directly or indirectly se secure secure secure cure their living as middlemen between the consumer and the producer or inthe In Inthe inthe the handling of minerals and other ar articles articles articles of commerce There Is the re retailer taller taUer the wholesaler and the manu manufacturer manufacturer manufacturer which is the basis of a population Then there are the doc doe doctors dOCtors tors tom the lawyers the preachers men with a trade and then the people em by these various interests We Weare Weare Weare are all middlemen 1 I am glad to say sa that the tre butter pro production production production is on the tho increase What we need is more butter and we are get getting getting getting ting it There is no question but what the high prices have encouraged the farmers in milking more and better cows A year ear ago this time the milk production was decreasing At the present time It is on the Increase Very Ver respectfully W F JENSEN JENSE |