THE POOR FARMER.
The fallowing extract Irom a typical American trade journal:—
“Of course the farmer doesn’t get his. He can prove, it. The middleman and the 'commission merchant may get. their little old 100 per coni, but the farmer is slowly but surely starving to death. He is everybody's goat. The figures iif the market reports don't mean anything except to the speculators. It may say in the papers that wheat is 2.26 dollars a bushel, and that the Governusc- jit guarantees the. price, but the farmer - doesn’t get it. The speculators grade iiis wheat away below the standard, and they ring in elevator chuj-ges on him until iiis wheat doesn’t net him enough lo buy his gasoline. “A quartette of farmers who were down at Washington to appear before some committee look dinner at a hotel at the capita!, and made a little calculation. Tlio bill for the dinner was 11 dollars, it ml out of that the American farmer received as liis pay for his part of tin? raw malarial the magnificent sum of’ s2 cents. Al that rate, when a banquet is spread, 'he American farmer benefits lo the extent of one-twelfth of the price. No wonder the ranchers have a hard time in keeping the baby in shoes.”
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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 18 February 1920, Page 4
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213THE POOR FARMER. Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 18 February 1920, Page 4
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