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Show LABOR AND SUPPLY BUREAU SERVICE Wanted Twelvo harvest hands to go to Clarkston In one weok. Eight harvest hands for Curlew valley next Monday. Young men eighteen years old or over who have had experience in handling horses will answer tho purpose. Twenty boys, too young for harvest har-vest work, want general farm work by tho month or hoeing or berry picking pick-ing by tho day. Girls for general housework wanted. The men and boys who report at the office often are naturally the' ones that are always provided with work. If you have no phono be suro and report. By tho tlmo wo get word to you by mall thb Job may bo gone. It Is not enough that you registered reg-istered here a month ago. Where ore you now? Take a part of the responsibility. re-sponsibility. And when you havo accepted ac-cepted a Job, get on It tho very hour you agree to. Farmers depend on these promises, and tho good wages they are paying Justify them in expecting ex-pecting good and prompt service. Investigation Is proving that the outstandlsh prlce3 the consumer is paying for tho necessities of life, aro not duo to fancy prices realized by the producer, but the speculators (n these products. One honest middle man Is necessary in cases where farmers farm-ers are not properly organized, but listen to this, from the findings of C. F. Nesblt, a member of the committee com-mittee appointed to Investigate food conditions by tho commissioners of tho District of Columbia: "In mid-June, when tho people of the city of Washington were paying from ten to thirty-five cents a box for strawberries, from a dollar and a half to five dollars a bushel for peas, and a dollar a peck for Irish potatoes, pota-toes, producers In some localities within fifty miles of the national capital refused to harvest their crop? through fear that they would lose money disposing of them. "Tho Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina or Delowafe, potatoes, peas and tomatoes that camo to tho Washington Wash-ington consumer pass through throe, four or five different hands, and beforo be-foro tho man who grew them Is through ho may find himself In debt for tho freight without having anything any-thing to show for his labors In tho field and the shipment of his produce. '.""First, the farmers dig tho potato, pota-to, crato it and hauls It to tho tram at considerable expense In money and tlmo. Second, the railroad takes It to tho depot In tho city, tho farmer paying tho freight. Third, the commission com-mission merchant to whom it Is consigned con-signed takes lt'to his office, charg ing tho farmer with the drayages. Fourth, the purchaser is found, and tho potato Is carted to his placo of business at the expense, of the farmer. farm-er. That closos tho deal so far as tho farmer Is concerned, but when tho settlement Is ma'de his sharo Is very small compared with tho profits between tho farm and tho tablo." Qne of tho causes of this deplora-blo deplora-blo condition, Mr. Nesblt attributes to tho elimination of tho farm warehouse ware-house and root cellar. Continuing he says: "When I was a boy every farmer of consequence- had his smoke bouse for meats, his storage bins for wheat, oates and ryo, his cribs for corn, ana his cellars for dried fruits and vegetables. veg-etables. On most farms tho farmer killed and storod enough hog meat for tho year, hilled his potatoes, pitted pit-ted his cabbage, and drlod his fruits. "In those- days It was tho rule to lay by for tho winter and spring months great quantities of foodstuffs, such as honey, dried and canned apples, peaches, cherries and poppers, pickled cucumbers and othor products prod-ucts of tho farm. In some Instances dried beef, bacon and tamed beef wore stored away. Every good housewife house-wife had her Jellies, preserves and Jams." Continuing his report, Mr. Nesblt says: "Tho sharpor operates on every market, and his activities havo done much to put farmers out of tho food buBlnoss. "We got ovldonco showing that innocent in-nocent farmers, who shipped their food crops to Washington, paid dou-blo dou-blo commissions and other extras to havo tholr stuff sold. "It was dlscovorod that somo com-mosslon com-mosslon merchants sold to other commission ferchants, each getting a commission, and tho farmer's product pro-duct kept passing along until It had gono through six hands between the flold and tho table. Wo found It was tho rarest thing for a consumer to got the farm product at a cost less than fifty per cent advance of what the farmer recelvod for It, More often the advanca over tho farm price was slxty-tlvo per cent." Office In Convmorclal-Boostera' rooms. Phone 68. ., , ,., |