Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1910 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

> EXCHANGE VALUES > OF 1910 ANO 1899. Th® average pricea of the > principal farm products in > March, 1896, as shown by the « bulletins of the United States > Bureau of Labor, reveal in a • striking manner the prosperity > of the farmer. The real value of any article ’ is its exchange value. The real • worth of farm products Is > measured by comparison with > the value of articles which the > farmer wants to purchase. > Figuring on the general wholesale price of articles, ten bushels of corn In 1896 would • buy 21 pounds of Rio coffee, In 1910, 70 pounds; ten busaels of corn equaled In value 58 gal- ■ lons of refined' petroleum In March, 1910; 23 gallons In March, 1896; ten bushels of corn equaled In value 1,040 brick in March; ‘l9lO, and 519 in March, 1896 ;ten bushels of corn equaled In value 337 pounds of wire nails In March, 1910, and 96 pounds In March, 1896; ton bushels Of corn equated In value 181 pounds of sugar in March, 1910, and «9 pounds In March, 1896, eto. A 300-pound hog when valued In merchandise at the wholesale rate, equaled 86 barrels of salt in March, 1910; and 16 barrels in March, 1896. Twenty pounds of butter showed values as follows when measured in the wholesale price of staple articles: Coffee, No. 7 Rio, in March, 1910, 70 pounds, in March, 1896..29 pounds; granulated sugar, 130 pounds in March, 1910, as compared with 82 pounds in 1896, "etc. A case of eggs which would have bought 72 ya. da of Amoskeag gingham in March. 1896, would have bought 110 yards *f same atatettah in' March at thia year. -