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product and its imperishable character, it is still very large. I cite that 
case more especially for comparison with conditions in a country where 
hay is more plentiful and marketing problems more acute. In this latter 
case, a shipment from Wyoming to Denver, the producer received $5 per 
ton, and the consumer in Denver paid $18, a difference of $13 absorbed in 
the transportation and handling and in the profits of the “necessary market- 
ing agents” under the present system of marketing. 
I came down from Boston yesterday with a gentleman who has been 
investigating the milk-marketing situation in the Boston territory. The 
day before, or on Monday, he had been talking with a feed dealer in a town 
near Boston, and the feed dealer told him that it was an actual fact that some 
of the farmers, dairymen, and milk producers for the Boston market, brought 
him their whole check some months to pay for their feed. They brought 
the check itself which they received for their whole product in certain 
months of low production. Now you as growers and you as farmers know 
that no producer can live and prosper under any such conditions for any 
length of time. He may be able to survive and get along with that sort of 
stuff for awhile, but there is a distinct limitation to that — he needs some 
money after a time. 
I could continue at great length and point out a whole lot of other 
problems that we are meeting every day, and I could also outline still 
further some of the plans that we have in mind; but I do not wish to impose 
upon your good nature, and, as there are other speakers, I do not wish to 
impose upon them. I just wish to add that in addition to the study of co- 
operative marketing and production, the study of the cooperative organiza- 
tion of growers, the making of market surveys, the study of market costs 
and methods, and the study of city marketing and distribution represent in 
a few words the lines of attack of the Office of Markets. 
We want this work to be distinctly sensible and practical. We realize 
that it can only be made so with the help of men such as you are, who are 
meeting these problems in a practical way yourselves. For that reason, I 
appeal to you as an organization, and as individuals, to communicate to us 
not only your problems but, where you have given the matter thought, your 
suggestions as to possible relief. 
President Lupton: In view of what Mr. Brand has just said about some 
of the peculiar profits made by the dealer and the consumer, I cannot re- 
frain from mentioning an incident which occurred to me last winter in New 
York. I saw in the office of E. P. Loomis & Go. a consignment of Lady 
apples which sold at $9 a barrel I' think (either eleven barrels sold at $9, 
or nine barrels sold at $11, I am not quite sure which), but the next morning 
I saw those same apples in a store just off the lobby of! the hotel where I 
was stopping, — sell at $20 a barrel, by actual count of the fruit in a barrel. 
The transportation problem has been giving the fruit growers of the 
Eastern section some trouble for quite a long time. The Eastern Fruit 
Growers’ Association had that matter called to its attention some two 
years ago, and we have been trying in a desultory sort of way to accomplish 
something in the matter of what we think are discriminating rates against 
