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Show JusT: Plain Robbery It is not pleasant to note how the greedy middlemen soak the consumers and the farmers They are literally being gouged gou-ged The Federal Trade Commission has issued a report based on 1936, but worse, I hey say today. It shows that housewives pay from three to ten t imes what the producer receives. A few items are: Co sinners in Texas paid SI. 67 for a sack of onions for which the farmer got 15c. Lettuce sold at S4 OS per crate while the giower got 58c. Tomatoes prices at S2.58 in St. Louis were purchased from the farmer for 52c. Potatoes bought from Idaho for 60c co-it the buyer in New Orleans $2.23. Apples from the Northwest for 2.35c retail which were bought from growers for 37c. Oranges priced at S4.85 a box in Baltimore were purchased in California for $1.25. These figures are rel able and are but a fen out of many. |