Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1910 — FARMER PROSPERS [ARTICLE]

FARMER PROSPERS

Long Delayed Good Times Have Com# to American Tiller of Soil. The farmer in all ages has been the man who has fed all the others, and who has got in return barely enough to feed and clothe himself. The farmer has always been the last in the world’s history to share in better conditions. But his turn in America appears to have come. The farmer is twice as rich today as he ever was In the history of America. The farmer, though you may not know it, buys half of all the automobiles made in America, or more than half. The farmer now gets for his hogs, alive and squealing on the hoof, just double the amount he was very glad to get a few years ago. He gets more for his wheat, for his corn, his eggs, his butter and milk. 1 And, besides getting bigger prices, the farmer, thanks to scientific agriculture, gets more out of bach acre, and In future will get still more. It would be impossible to say just how much the income of the farmer has increased during the past years, but the sum ia enormous, running into the thousands of millions.—-Arthur Brisbane.