Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1896-12-27 | Page 7 | Reduce the Cost of Produce

Reduce the Cost of Produce Rural New Yorker The writer recently re-cently went to a corner of Massachusetts where 2 years ago he worked as a farm boy The price of a railroad ticket to Boston and the price of a quart of milk I were about the same as they were a quarter of a century ago The railroad Is still paying goodsized dividends to its I Stockholders while the milk seller and the farmer are domnlalning bitterly of hard times The railroad was doing more business and doing it cheaper Its engines en-gines were more powerful its fuel was cheaper its cars and rails csst less Except Ex-cept in the matter of wages there had been reduction in cost everywhere I cost less to carry a single passenger to Boston than it did 2 years before while the rate was about the same Under such circumstances the railroad ought to pay a big profit and It did There was also a large market for milk but there had been little or no reduction in the cost of producing a quart As a matter of fact there has been about as much Improvement Improve-ment In cows and in methods of carins for them as there has been in railroad fixtures The milk farmers who complained com-plained of hard times were mostly keeping keep-ing the oldtime cows on oldtime method meth-od They were just where the railroad people would have been had they continued con-tinued to usethe fixtures of 2 years ago Of course the railroad held a monopoly whch the milk farmer never could secure se-cure yet that was all the more reason why the farmer should try to obtain every ev-ery quart of milk he possibly could for each dollars worth of expense In proportion pro-portion to the money Invested the railroad rail-road did not pay a fair a share of puh lc taxes as did the farmer but its prosperity pros-perity was chiefly due lo the fact that i penses had kept up Il 3 rates and reduced its ex I < r < v > i