Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1890 — No Wonder Farmers Are Dissatisfied. [ARTICLE]

No Wonder Farmers Are Dissatisfied.

The Kansas farmer is certainly in a bad way. The Atchison Globe says: “A particularly industrious farmer can ‘tend’ sixty acres of corn—that is, plow the ground, plant tbe seed, cultivate the growing crop and harvest it. The average yield of corn is thirty bushels to the acre—l,Boo bushels. Of tfiis he will feed 500 bushels to his stock, leaving 1,300 bushels as the result of a year’s work. A letter received from an Atchison traveling man says that in Edwards County day before yesterday white corn sold at 11 cents a bnshel and yellow corn for 10 cents. You can figure for yourself how much a farmer cm make raising corn. Another thing should be thought of. The averaee farmer lives a considerable distance from market. In order to get 10 and 11 cents a bushel for his com he must haul it to the market. If he starts early in the morning he can haul twenty-seven bushels to town in a day, with the assistance of a wagon and two horses. In hauling his crop to market he just about earns wages. No wonder the farmers are dis atisfled. Wo don’t blame them. ” Yet tbe Kansas farmers have always beeh loyal to the party which gives them nothing but high taxes und the promise of a home market.