Show I High Price of Butter I IW W HILE RILE the poor man contemplates with rising W vy indignation the possibility that ho he may have haye to eat ent the staff of life without its customary concomitant concomitant con con- an interesting game of button bUl button on who has the button is being played b by the theanus anus arious middlemen who are amassing fortunes by separating ahng the producer from his butter at as low Iowa a price as ashe ashe aslie he lie will endure and selling it to the consumer for all the traffic will vilI bear The western middlemen blame the eastern dealers for the rise lise in price and the hatter latter latter lat hat ter gracefully avoid responsibility by charging conditions conditions conditions con con- up to Congress Congress Congre s it seems is to blame because a bill has been introduced there limiting to ninety days t the c period of time during which butter may be kept in in n cold storage In the past butter has been kept in storage so long that the dealers have found it il necessary necessary necessary essary to install pedigree books to determine the vintage of the various cases cages cases of the commodity which h they have on hand While Thile the new bill did not pass the dealers were frightened and therefore did not store a supply large enough to supply the trade now that the season of small production has arrived The argument however ever does floes not sound well Inasmuch Inasmuch Inasmuch In In- as the current price of butter has never ne exhibited exhibited ex ex- ex- ex even a remote relation to the supply on hand its scarcity at the present time time time-if if it is scarce which is is doubtful is doubtful is in no wise responsible for the price The dealers are merely charging more because they feel they cnn can get more Meanwhile we to paus pause learn why butter prices in Utah should be dictated from Illinois when according to the chief dealer in this section our supply of butter Idaho comes mostly from It t I 4 |