Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1917 — WHERE THE FARMER LOSES [ARTICLE]

WHERE THE FARMER LOSES

, The second upstanding fact in modern life is that few men .can do all things well, and that a suc„cessful organization must be large enough to have within it men who can do well the complex duties which are required to make itself a factor in the market. There must be inspectors as well as producers and salesmen to insure that the production is up to standard. There must be bookkeepers and cost ac-

countants as well as financiers and executives. And all these functions are necessarj' in farm operations as well as in any other line. The only difference is that the farmer devoting himsej/ .to production alone has passed his product over to self employed men to do the rest of the things necessary to market, his crop, and let them set their own salary, so that he has fared ill .at the hands of his coworkers without knowing . how or why. In the far West fruit associations are \ marketing their product at a profit where once i| was a hopeless tangle and loss. The packers and the stock yards are serving the. farmer at a very low cost in their lines, but vegetables and fruits that could be made an important part of our food are still in a state of wasteful chaos so far as distribution Is concerned.