Show OLD STORAGE 1 t RAISES PRICES p peculation in Butter and Eggs Eggs t J Facilitated by bv Holding Commodities ITY RECOMMENDED Farmer armer Receives Only Half What Is Paid for Food Says Secretary Wilson Washington Dec I cc 6 The G. The consumer consumers consumer's ys Is s 's a a. dollar for food the farmer almer gets is s than fifty cents cents' of ot It Who gets getse getso e o crest rest That Is a question which Secretary lson of or the department of ag ure uio o asked today in annual report lie secretary dots docs os not attempt to an- an wel It it He lie docs does explain in some deill de- de cn c- c ill n the results of oC an an In Investigation his has lias Just JUlit concluded into the erect of or sold cold s on the whole whole- O and cost of foods food Ills lg Invest Invest- thou tion leads him to recommend pu public public- I ity ty for tor the amount of or food In Iii cold stor- stor gp gr just Jus as the department now gives Ives to tho tiro crops from to month Instead of food remaining remaining- In storage or longer L than n a n year ear or two years rears tl 1 loin as astl asure I rUle IC the u. u secretary u u Lr arcs Hint tat 1 ins t s 1 investigation showed that receipts Into oto cold storage arc entirely or Ver very early haus e exhausted ted by the he deliveries deliveries out of f C cold coid stora storage e within ten months month tt Long LoD storage is the exception the thel l asserts Warehousemen cx- cx p to the department epu that long storage was due duc to lawsuits find rind and other circumstances of an mercial nature Tho Tim cost of storage including storage charge chorge Inter Interest and Insurance is considered ered a R barrier Ito to storage cry er long lone Speculate peculate p In Butter nutter and ERR Eggs JJ D Cold storage the secretary reports has h Is raised tho the cost of oC living lI b by uy IncreasIng In- In creasIng the annual I price level ol for for tor butier but- but f ter ier and eggs it The The secretary sa says s 's that an exam examination examination examina examina- na- na tion lion of ot the record of or prices 1 gives es a suspicion that there thero has haN been Leen much I speculation peculation in some years ears by the men who bo keep commodities in cold storage storage He refers to an an apparent ml mistake take I of the storage men in overestimating the the of eg eggs R by the public eat at t exorbitant prices last Just winter with the result that in the spring the the- stor- stor Dge men had to sell eggs at ut remarkably low Klow prices and send abroad the thc largest amount of or e eegs gs e ever er r exported in order ito to get rid of ot the tle supply The secretory secre- secre tu tory declares that th warehousemen t to bo be to send en to Wash Wash- Ins ton each month tho amount of commodities com- com placed in stora storage e so o that tho the public ma may be able to judge of or tho the fu future future fu- fu ture Lure trend o of prices A great allet variety of oC subjects are dealt with by the secretary in the report He tie sa says s 's that the day is not far distant when the United States will cease to Import potash Florida Kentucky Kentuck Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee Ten Ten- and Idaho are mentioned as de de- de Recommendation la is n m made Io do that all an government o a agencies that conserve public public public pub pub- lic health should be grouped together h in one bureau The rhe success suc-ess suc of or department In the southern fates through h object J lessons les les- sons s- s ons sons In the fields fields is Is pronounced to have been such as to justify the thc son slon of tho the work to nil all states Tho department announces that the corn crop Is northward b by y seed selection Renting Systems S Faulty The Tho American systems of renting land are arc declared to bo ho faulty and to result In soil robbing It I is suggested that domestic animals be kept on farms even e If It the tho Jau land o owner oner ner must furnish them and that there be a rotation of crops Att After r years of or experimentation the department deportment says that E Egyptian cotton can be grown in southern California ani an bulbs In the state of Washington ton The fhe crayfish Is pronounced to bo a serious pest In tho the south Carbon hi- hi bi sulphide is said to be ue a sure r remedy me The finest dates ates from the Sahara desert desert des des- e ert crt f succeed ucc ed in the southwestern states st Poultry products for forte the past year ear are estimated to have been worth The foresters of or the forestry bureau are learning b by experiment how to re reforest reforest reforest re- re forest acres in iu a year ear The secretary secretary sec sec- says sars that ten times this must be bc planted annually to cover all the bare barl acres in a generation We Wo are ale sending explorers to the ends of the earth for new plants and getting setting them s tys Js J.'s Secretary Wilson Vilson The secretary warns the thc Irrigation farmers fannel's that tho they must conserve their soil that irrigation will bring maximum maximum maximum maxi maxi- mum crops while the land is new and full of plant food But there the tho crops clops are sol sold year by year car Irrigation of it itself itself it- it self will not of itself assure good re re- re |