The nonpartisan leader. [volume], January 06, 1919, Image 11

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practicafaide of farm operation. With
out such training and experience I
found their services of little value.
"Not only did these men prepare the
report on wheat from a vast fund of
definite knowledge of the details of
wheat production, which knowledge
they had.spent years in acquiring, but
they checked their conclusions with all
the published information extant on
-the subject. So far as I have been able
to learn, no question has been raised
as to the approximate accuracy of the
results reported or of their substantial
agreement with, the findings of other
investigators. It might'be of interest
to your committee to ascertain' from
the member? of the committee of state
investigators called in by the secretary
of agriculture whether they were per
mitted to give their opinion on the sub
stantial accuracy of these reports.
."Any one who knows even the rudi
ments of production cost studies is
aware that in such a complex industry
as farming there can be no, absolute
figure given as the exact cost of any
agricultural product. There is no possi
bility, no matter how extensive the in
vestigation, of getting more than a
reasonably accurate approximation to
a final result. This was done in the
investigations under discussion.
'The secretary's letter to the senate
fails to inform the qenate that the re
port on wheat production in North Da
kota was based on five years' careful
bookkeeping records'on a large num
ber of farms also that the report on
the cost of beef production was based
in part on carefully kept accounts cov
ering 141 farm years, and the fatten
ing of nearly 50,000 steers.
"It iB my opinion that'the members
of your committee, as well as the
farmers of the country, are entitled to
know why our work on this subject
wafrinterrupted in October, 1917, and
not permitted to be resumed till after
midwinter, thus causing the loss of
approximately half the time available
for this investigation undertaken at
the request of the federal trade com
mission. Had we been permitted to
spend the months of October, Novem
ber and December: jn gathering field,
data, the winter inonths, when field
work was not feasible, could have been
spent in tabulating the data and get
ting it ready for presentation as it
was, these winter months were en
tirely lost so far as field work was
concerned.
"Respectfully submitted,
"W. J. SPILLMAN."
JUKES THE COMPANY
Hoskins, Neb.
Editor Nonpartisan Leader:
I am only a beginner in the League
family, but I like it first rate because
every man in it is an honest toiler. As
you pointed out in your last week's
issue we need more organizers. In
this section quite a few neighbors ask
me when you are. going to have
'another meeting.
At the time when Mr. Woods, who
used to be with the Union and is now
organizer for the League, spoke at
Hoskins in October a couple of cranks
here wanted to have Mr. Woods ar
rested, but they didht succeed. The
big profiteers feel the rope dipping
and the more the farmers organize the
more it slips.
AUGUST HOHNEKE.
OUR EFFICIENT MARKETING
George K. Holmes* statistical ex
pert of the United States department
of agriculture, estimated several
years ago that for every dollar the
consumer pgid to the retailer in the
general average for his potatoes,
fruits, poultry and dairy produce, the
farmer receives 63 cents, the rail
roads 7 cents, and the middleman 40
cents. Most of the other experts
have put the farmer's share a good
deal lower, bat even these figures fail
to flatter the system which the big
.press hails as too near perfect to-be
changed for the better.
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getting positions. Since
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HE other day a big business man, who employs
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