Show New England and the Beef Deet Trust Having bought an abandoned Massachusetts Massachusetts Massa Massa- farm I went there last winter with my boys on the Berkshire hills writes S. S E. E Hatch In Farm and Home I found If It you buy a place with good buildings and good location you will have to pay for it There are some very cheap places If It you know where to look for them To renew New England farming lands and make them look like prosperous farms and homes they must have prote protection not in tariff but protection from the meat packers' packers trusts of the west There are thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of acres of as good grazing lands as stock needs that thirty years ago were covered with cattle and sheep that are now growing up to bushes and weeds because the owners cannot compete compete compete com com- pete with Chicago butchers I asked Cannot you sell beef cattle so eo the meats can be sold at the prices we have to pay The reply always was Yes and for less less but Chicago butchers butch butch- ers wont won't let us for they put their men in and run prices way down and we have to quit In a discussion In the United States Slates senate last spring between between between be be- tween Senators Hoar of ot Massachusetts and Tillman of South Carolina In speaking of ot the trusts and monopolies Senator Hoar claimed the national government government government gov gov- cannot restrict them In the states slates but the states slates have the power Individually to enact laws controlling them In that case the New England states should combine pass the same laws in each state and farmers can again cover their hills and valleys with cattle and sheep working men can get meats for less than they have to pay now and the western men can sell seIl their meats at a fair profit it if they will Put Puta a stop to their conspiring to beat the farmers and the local butchers out o otheir of their legitimate business for tor a living that Is the protection we want |