A PROBLEM FOR THE FARMER
A Problem for the Farmer AFRUIT farmer at Albion, New York, lives near the shore of Lake Ontario, where the keen autumn air about this time of year puts the finest flavor in the world into those...
...The labor and packing alone cost him over fifteen cents a basket...
...Any one who has seen a Scotch fisherman put a fresh fish on the mail wagon to send to London will agree that the parcels post would help...
...Here is an economic situation in which the farmer saves money by leaving a crop of splendid peaches to rot on the trees...
...Cole says: "Just at random, my rail-fence opinion is strong for a liberal parcels post...
...It is safe to say there is no stockholder in the American Express Company who did not have enough peaches to waste a good many, and most of them have more cooks, automobiles, and valets than are good for them...
...A Problem for the Farmer AFRUIT farmer at Albion, New York, lives near the shore of Lake Ontario, where the keen autumn air about this time of year puts the finest flavor in the world into those good old-fashioned apples, Kings and Northern Spys...
...04 Money-order ..............................03 10.07 $ .73 The farmer, in other words, received two cents each for his thirty-six baskets...
...We have shown over and over that when a housekeeper in the city buys one dollar's worth of food the farmer does very well if on the average he gets thirty-five cents out of it...
...Roosevelt's words, is not "to make farm life more attractive," but to make it more remunerative.—Collier's...
...Meanwhile there were a good many millions of people in the cities who weren't able to get as many peaches this fall as they would have liked...
...Perhaps "this country's gravest problem," in Mr...
...He raises peaches too, and one day in September he picked thirty-six baskets of them, packed them carefully, took them to the railroad station, and delivered them to the Order and Commission Department of the American Express Company...
...That admirable farmers' paper the "Rural New Yorker," has been talking for years about "the 35-cent dollar...
...A few days later the farmer, whose name is Marc W. Cole, got a formal account of the transaction, which reads thus: Thirty-six baskets peaches at SO cents each $10.80 Express charges..........................$10...
Vol. 3 • July 1911 • No. 27
