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"The government at Washington need not advise farmers, but it 

 can at least print for the general benefit the inferences drawn by its 

 experts from the data assembled. It can make knowledge as to 'fu- 

 tures' public instead of private, and universal instead of exclusive. 

 The effect of such a work in behalf of the farmer will be to stabilize 

 the industry of the food producer as it never has been stabilized before, 

 to save him to a large extent from sudden and violent fluctuations dis- 

 turbing his entire program and forcing him suddenly and violently, 

 and at serious loss, instead of permitting him gradually and long enough 

 in advance, to diversify and vary his program, from cattle to sheep, or 

 from sheep to hogs, and so on. 



"It is in reference to markets that the Agricultural Department's 

 future work is of main interest, or can be made so, to the practical 

 farmer." 



Now, this aid, information and advice is just what the 

 farmers need. But they need not expect the government to 

 furnish it, because the government is now controlled jointly 

 by union employers and union labor, both of which want 

 only increased farm products and decreased prices for them. 

 So it is up to the producers of each farm product to unionize 

 and employ an executive board to do this service for them. 



Packers Control Government and Exploit Farmers . 



"The large packers have been for months flooding the country with 

 misleading advertising. Their primacy in the packing business comes 

 from their piracy in finance and criminal methods of competition, not 

 from efficiency or the economic soundness of their methods of concen- 

 tration, of slaughter and distribution. 



"Their assertion of 'Small cost to the nation for services rendered,' 

 rests upon 'camouflage,' and not upon demonstrated or demonstrable 

 fact. In none of the European nations is there as great waste between 

 farm and table as there is in the United States. 



"If we are to continue a meat-eating nation, the concentration of 

 the live stock of the nation in a few packer controlled markets must 

 cease. The following are some of the facts to which they do not give 

 publicity : They divide among themselves the live stock of the nation 

 on the following per cent basis : Armour, 292.66 ; Swift, 357.51 ; Mor- 

 ris, 149.83; Wilson, 100.00; Cudahy, 100.00; Total, 1,000.00. 



