Show The Cause of High Priced I Farm Products By F. Ursenbach the Utah first of this series articles appeared in the last current fe of this wherein of the causes the present prices of food com- were It was that fanning was not at a rate sufficient to with the very rapid growth the result of which that food supplies must be 11 from foreign in that the local demand and be also prices were being juggled to as great extent as are on Wall street was also made to the of farmers leaving the farm pe and moving to the larger k in order to take advantage social and educational offered it was that several million dollars' worth of food supplies were being imported in the state wherein many excessive commissions and unreasonable freight rates must be met before the product reaches the local Inferior Poor It is the purpose of this article to show some of the reasons why the production of certain food have been discontinued for want of a market for the home for while Utah alone is adapted furnish food supplies to meet the demand of five times its it is nevertheless a fact that much of the product of the state has great trouble in finding a owing to the inferior quality of the farm and orchard Evaporated Several years ago the fruit growers of Utah took great pains in the careful preparation of dried the result 1 of which was that our markets were well supplied with a first class sample of any and all varieties native to our The quality of this fruit was of such merit as to meet any and all and found a ready until some fruit growers indifferent and abused the trade by placing worm and unfit samples on Then came the fruits from foreign markets to supply the and reached our tables after having passed through the hands of many commission plus the robbing freight until the price is juggled up beyond all Good Good Fruit growers of the state complain that they can not produce an article to compete with the finer varieties produced by the large evaporating granting the is it not a fact that were we to care for the preparation of our fruits according to the facilities within our reach we would find a ready market for our entire and that at a very good sufficient to make it a good paying Every pound of well prepared fruit will find a. ready and that at a good Utah Several years ago Utah was the world's best sample with a wide open market extending as far as The product was famous to the extent that any bag of labeled was quickly but we lost Colorado and other sister states got our trade from and we alone were to Our seemed too to the extent that it was abused in a shameful Farmers took no care as to whether the burbank and early in any other variety were mixed The was so great that potatoes were irrespective of size or and this is not the for some more eager for weight than honest would knowingly allow from ten to fifteen pounds of earth to be placed into each how often would small potatoes be pushed on the market that should have found the pig pen and how often have dishonest-farmers placed rocks in potato to gain Dishonesty Brings The foregoing are strong but are nevertheless true and can be verified to the Sor it was that we very justly lost our The dishonest actions of a few farmers established a bad reputation for the and we have several years trying to re-establish Today we are awake to the but we have not outgrown the evils of the and it will be but by slow degrees that we regain the confidence of the export This state alone can produce sufficient potatoes to supply-the population and export several millions dollars' worth Dixie Grapes and Southern Utah contains one of the very best climates that earth has been blessed it is well known that the is wonderful in the production oft choice varieties of For several years the famous has been manufactured in There has been a market for the entire but today there is very little made owing to the fact that the Mormon church has very justly its further Still we have Sunny with her beautiful vineyards and producing as many grapes as That section alone is capable of producing three times the amount of raisins the population of the state can and yet there is not a grocery store in all Dixie wherein grapes can not be It is not because Dixie does not produce the for there is nothing grows than can be found in their but it is because the proper is not taken in the preparation of the grapes to to compete with the California Quit Paying Foreign Juggled The very best means within our as a to overcome high is to quit paying the foreign of plus a of commission plus equal freight plus again the juggling of local and the way to overcome is to begin at home by making the best of the virtues God has placed in our soils by raising the product that is best adapted to our varied Utah when- we-have those bounteous to see use-is made-pf- Can Supply the If we have anything to it is of the let us see to it that highest and when we place an article on our own markets let us be sure we are offering honest well then we need have no fear as Jo the market or they of When we learn to do as we should our foreign farmers will not be feeding our and we will not be paying the many parasites of stock and gamblers exorbitant prices for the foods before we get to eat can pay Utah farmer a foxy for his plus the robbing amounts that go to railroads and commission and get our products at much than we are now paying |