Brenham Daily Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 179, Ed. 1 Friday, October 23, 1914 Page: 2 of 6
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CENTRALIZING INDUSTRY.
The United States Department of Agricul-
ture has sent out a warning to the public, par-
ticularly poultry raisers, saying that the poul-
try packing industry is in danger of becoming
centralized like the meat-packing industry. Let
the department explain it
^ Unless chickfen raisers give their encourage-
ment and support to local poultry-packing es-
tablishments there is danger, poultry special-
ilt> of the department feel, that the poultry
Industry will become as highly centralized as
the beef industry in a few distant packing cen-
ters. In this event, just as the farmer with a
few beef cattle to dispose of has to seek a mar-
Jut several hundred miles away or deal through
the local commission man or agent who will
boy live cattle, chicken raisers, unless local
poultry-dressing and refrigerating establish-
ments are maintained, will have to dispose of
their product for live shipment to Chicago and
Other centers. ,
There are indications that the same evolu-
tion which finally did away with the local
iianghterhouse, and in large part with the local
butcher who killed for his own or near-by trade,
made be at work to centralize all final handling
ot chickens for the great markets in big cities
many hundred of miles away from the produc-
tive field. In this event, of course, the fanner
would no longer have the stablized competition
lor chickens between the local or near-by poul-
try packing establishments and those who buy
to ship live to Chicago and other cities.
With the exception of a small percentage of
Jive poultry taken up by those whose religious
scruples require than to eat freshly killed
Chickens, ducks, and geese—and these ship-
ments for religious purposes always must con-
tinue in competition with local and other dress-
ed-poultry establishments—the bulk of live
poultry shipped into Chicago and other sec-
tions is there killed and dressed and put on the
market as dressed poultry. The poultry spe-
cialists believe that the poultry supply of large
Cities must come from shipments of poultry al-
ready dressed, and that as time goes on an in-
creasing percentage'of such poultry Will be
shipped in dressed form, while live shipments
Will gradually be limited to poultry needed for
religious or special uses. The reason for this
fo that they believe that to give the cities the
b«st dressed poultry local poultry-packing es-
tablishments in the producing'sections should
be encouraged, for the reason that the nearer
to the farm the live chicken is properly killed,
Chilled, and packed the better will be its condi-
tion as poultry on arrival at the great market
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America's prosperity and peace of mind de-
pends upon herself. It behooves her to sell
M much as possible to Europe, but the home
people must not be forgotten and left in the
folclL If the exportation of foodstuffs con-
tinues this country ft bound to suffer sooner
or bier. We most keep enough for our own
use. If a shortage of life's necessities arises
the farmer is not to'blame. He should, of
course, raise more cattle and hogs and quit
devoting his entire time and acres to cotton,
but we cannot afford to lay all the blame at
bis feet Let us begin to hoard out supplies
instead of trundling them off to Europe. We
will need than here before long. %
Texas may rank eighteenth in the output of
as statistics show, but the number of
pulled off down at Austin tend to
she exports very little of it
i is alfout to quit We
ipeaking, at say
Now when a farmej|H
of thirty dollars on a bale (to be stored and
insured and held for better price), we agree
that he had better take the loan than to sell
outright for thirty dollars per bale. But sup-
pose he is in a community where he cannot get
even as much as thirty dollars a bale advanced,
what can he do but sell at that figure? It is a
fact, and to be deplored, that in some localities
banks are not offering to lend to any extent
on cotton, and merchants are not able to do
so. The plight of the average merchant is as
stressful as that of the average farmer.'—Waco
Tribune.
it is kasd to believe that the advice sent out
by Galveston was entirely distintered, Galves-
ton being a stronghold of cotton men who want
buy cheaply when they need it and do not
Want to be swamped when they don't need it.
The selling or holding of cotton depends alto-
gether on circumstances. If a farmer owes
the merchant and can't borrow money on his
cotton, he should sell anyway and pay his debts.
What applies to one fanner would not touch
his neighbor with a ten-foot pdie. Leave it to
the farmers themselves.
the farmers of Nacogdoches county are plan-
ning to plant 1,000 acres to wheat and are
forming precinct organizations to arrange the
details of apportioning the acreage and buy-
ing the seed wheat In the olden days East
Texas farmer turned his attention to opening
of the west with its broad prairies transferred
this crop further west and the East Texas
farmer turned his attention to fruits and veg-
etables, not overlooking, of course, corn and
cotton. The slump in cotton is causing East
Texas to turn again to wheat and if the other,
counties follow the example of Nacogdoches
the people "in the sticks" will be independent
of all the world next year.—Waco News.
east texas probably will resent the impu-
tation that she has been backwards in the past
but the fact remains that she has progressed
so much in the past year that former times
look mossbacky in comparison. Make room
for East Texas at the front!
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when one recalls the fact that Richard Hard-
ing Davis, one of the best war correspondents
this country or any other country ever pro-
duced Jeft Europe in disgust, because he could
not see any of the real battles, one is inclined
to believe that we do not know very much of
the real facts concerning the great struggle
going on over across the ocean. It is very diffi-
cult to see any of the war as it actually exists/
and all the news that comes to this country
is censired severely.—Cleburne Enterprise.
it is Hard to believe that Rich Hard Davis"
left Europe in a peeve because he could not get
near the real fighting. Our mental photo of
Dicky is that he would be after going the other
way. Btit by the way, what is "censired se-
verely"?
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"man proposes and God disposes." The on-
ly trouble with the people of the South is they
figured on making a lot of money this year and
it hurts not to do it Nobody is suffering or
in want and the need of the country is for peo-
ple to go about their business in the usual way.
So far as Taylor county and this section of
Texas are concerned there is no need for any*
thing but thanksgiving services. Cause
complaining 4s absent—Abilene Reporter.
the principal reason why the cotton
tioQs are in distress is because the fanners a:
in debt, and the principal reason they're
debt is because they raised a cotton crop to
exclusion of crops that meant meat and b:
market or no market The individual fa:
who thinks he can support his ...family an
make money putting in most <ff his time rail
ing a cotton crop will find after years of
that he has one chance in a hundred to accom*
plish what he is trying to do.—Bonham N
„ it 18 getting to be quite the fashion to
all ills to cotton, and the blame is justifiabl
in nine cases out of ten where the
farmer is I
ins in anything but
of life, but the
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Contractors aad Builders '||
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House that we build—try us.
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20th*—Advil77-6t
Dressmaking at home, priest re
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will find us at the same old horn
stead, 417 Church street
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Three reasons for this—quality,
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Grimes, Frank. Brenham Daily Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 179, Ed. 1 Friday, October 23, 1914, newspaper, October 23, 1914; Brenham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth491306/m1/2/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.