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Show Secretary Wilson lo Probe Cost of UvSreg to Bottom WASHINGTON. Jan "Wo have a 1-ready 1-ready iJih-coveroil that, the farmer is not c;etlln the exorbitant, profits out of the beer he ml.tes." said Secretary Wilson In rli.scu.s'MnK the hlph prices oi' food yiippllt-K today. "I havo no doubt." he continued, "that ihe same condition prevail pre-vail in most other lines of farm products. prod-ucts. "The department of uprrleultnrc has acrents in every stat and every county and thej- havo been ordered lo report on the cost of production und the returns on nalca of food products. As fast as wo rereive llicpe figures we will compare them with the prices the same products brlnfj in iho cities whert; they are con-Mimetl. con-Mimetl. We will then make the fuels pnhlk . "We Intend lo brlns out. the- truth. Ir-respertivo Ir-respertivo of whom it hurl or whom it beneiup. r am convinced thai the public i i ompcllcd to pwy ;i prea I deal mor for nearly eveiylhins il cats than it should. "There Is, however, amnio excuse for sorno of Hie increase In the co.l of living. liv-ing. Farmluc area is not. keeping pace, with the demands for foodstuffs. The cities s;:m to have more attraction for the, laboring man than the rural communities. com-munities. "The horde? of immigration, as well as Ihe ovor-incrnaslmt natlvo population, must be fed and the farm Is expected to furnish the food." |