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followed by abnormally high prices. The great need then, so far as 

 storage is concerned, is larger and better regulated houses for both city and 

 country storage. 



The question of supply and demand deserves special consideration 

 at this time. We all know that the importation of certain important 

 foodstuffs has increased greatly during the past few years and that our 

 exportation of important food articles has decreased. This is a com- 

 paratively new country and yet we are failing to feed our own population. 

 At the present time both corn and beef are being imported from South 

 America; while our own country and our own State of Pennsylvania are 

 pre-eminently adapted to the production of corn and beef. We have 

 hundreds of acres of land in Pennsylvania which are practically non- 

 productive and which might provide excellent grazing for large numbers of 

 cattle and sheep. The Pennsylvania State College is very much interested 

 in the problem of increased beef production in this state. A large herd 

 of registered beef cattle is maintained at the College with the idea of 

 determining the cost of breeding and raising beef cattle in Pennsylvania. 

 We believe that it is possible for this state to compete successfully with 

 the West, provided the most approved and economical methods are 

 employed. 



Both city and farm wastes are enormous. You will notice that I said 

 city as well as farm wastes. We hear a great deal about country wastes. 

 It seems that almost everyone you meet in the city has something to say 

 about the wastes of the country. They declare that the owners of rural 

 properties are not using their lands as they should; that they are not 

 properly conserving soil fertility; that they are not utilizing their crops 

 to the best advantage. Most of our farmers are willing to admit their 

 wastefulness, but we should also take into account in connection with the 

 high cost of living the enormous waste of the cities. How about the milk- 

 men who chase down the city alleys every morning, dozens of them perhaps, 

 when three or four wagons might deliver the milk in the same territory 

 at a very much lower cost? There is also an enormous waste in the delivery 

 of groceries in the city. How about the consumer who 'phones to his 

 grocer and asks for a quarter of a peck of apples or potatoes to be delivered 

 at his residence several miles away? Who pays for this heavy expense? 

 You pay for it, but the farmer gets most of the blame for the high cost of 

 living. 



My attention has been called to a vender's wagon which operates in 

 West Philadelphia during the fall and winter season. The wagon is 

 substantially built and tastefully painted, and the team, with brass- 

 trimmed harness, is kept in a city stable. Every morning two men 

 with the team and wagon drive to Dock Street and purchase a load of 

 apples. They then drive to West Philadelphia and the entire day is spent 

 in peddling the load of apples. It is seen at once that the apples must be 

 sold at a very great advance of the price paid on Dock Street in order to 



