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Show Food Prices and Storage Warehouses. Tho Idea of reducing prices by means of cold storage warehouses located all over food producing sections sec-tions has long been advocated. A warehouso located at somo center for a group of rural communities should seemingly bo able to tako in farm produco and sell It to retailors at prices to beat tho wholesalers who now handle them. From tho middleman's point of vlow, tho Jobber can tako the product pro-duct off tho farmer's hands and sell It cheaper than a local warehouso can dispose of It. Ho will say that tho expenso of putting tho product through tho hands of several middlemen mid-dlemen would bo less than tho costs of a local warehouso would Incur In making sales. Tanners aro apt to bo Jealous of co-opcratlvo effort. Tho majority of them would probably not bo satisfied satis-fied unless their product was handled hand-led Individually. Yet to get tho best . results of classification any given product should be handled as a i whole. However, co-operatlvo schom-l cs for marketing products aro making mak-ing good progress. If farmers can drop this suspicious nttltudo and accept ac-cept the Impartial grading of a warehouse ware-house superintendent, great difflcul-ty difflcul-ty can bo overcome. To get a warehouse system going would tako faith and patience. It would perhaps not pay anything for a year or two. It would tako timo to make Its products known, money would havo to bo spent on advertising advertis-ing and personal solicitation. But onco Its product became known, it surely could undersell tho middlemen. Tho public is llkoly to be forced Into somo such schomo for gathering and storing tho products of n given locality and shipping them out as needed. It could bo undertaken either eith-er by leagues of farinors,, associations associa-tions of consumers, or municipal or other public organizations. Tho American peoplo aro getting tired of seeing middlemen and speculators pilo up their pyramids of profits. |