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Show B THE HIGH COST OF B DISTRIBUTION' (No. 1) H Tho past summer was a year of H agricultural fertility. Food products B- ought to ho cheap this winter. In a H great many rural districts fruits nnd H; vegetables havo been rotting under H tbo trees a ml In tho garden. Yet H' while apples for Instance, were wast- Hi Ing In the country, you might have H- to pay $3 to ?5 a barrel to buy them HH. In tho cities. Similarly with other HHJ'. products. HBw Tho biggest cause or high cost or BkBj living Is tho expense of getting tho HJ food from the farms to tho coiisum- H, ,)r- U s the purposo of a series of BKBjj six editorial at tides, prepared after Hi special study and Interviews with R' competent experts to dcscrlbo briefly BftBj the present bungling mothods of got- BftBJ ting food to tho consumer, and to Hi t0c' on certain suggestions that B; Iiavo been made for lowering the H, "Igli cost ot this distribution. H' An Investigation was recently mndo BBj In n city or 10,000 people, of tho cost BBt or delivering milk. It was found BBJ that sometlilng llko cno hundred mlllc BBf farts wcro traveling through tlio BBf place daily, and covering In tho ng- B-BJ i-.regalo a distance of 2100 ml'es. Yet BkBJ iliero nre but about 250 miles of BBJ streets In that city. Henco ten milk BBJ carts on an uverago went through BBJ each street. Tho time of nlno of BBt thoso milk tcam8 was la gely wasted. B-Bf Tho consumer paid tho needless cost. BftBj Slmj'nrly the teams and motor ears BBV Hint collected the milk frcm the out- BftBJ lying country wcro running over tho BBV I snmo ground. B An oven moro rcmarkablo case Is B reported from a town of 0000 people H , to provide which with milk fifty dlf B ferent carts travorsu the samo streets H day by B In the city first referred to the milk B i consumers were paying eight to BftBJ nine conts per quart. Yet tbo farm- BftBJ' ors got but four cents. Somo or them BKBb : nt a distance get but two and u hair BBVM 1 to thrco B ' Although trie consumer is a ready BKBK ln)ing a lilgh price for milk, yet in BBBJ many places farmers are quitting the BBVj dairy business, becauso of low io- BBbM turns and milk famines scorn likely BBVB It may yet piuvo ucceasary to JacK BBbJ up tbo consumer another cent or two. BBBB An endless nutnbor ot similar In- BBVX stances could be given, showing tho BftBB j lnelllelency of present methods of BBBK , gutting food f nm the farm to the |
