Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1914 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

LOOKOUT FOR BIG BARGAINS AND EASY TERMS AT LEOPOLD’S REAL ESTATE SALE. I WANT TO SELL ALL MY DWELLING PROPERTY AND VACANT LOTS AND WILL SELL THEM ON EASY AND REASONABLE TERMS. GOOD LOTS ON THE INSTALLMENT PLAN. MAKE A START TOWARD OWNING YOUR OWN HOME. A. LEOPOLD. SEE ME OR PHONE NO. 35. Mrs. Charles Elder and children went to Parr today to remain until Sunday evening at the home of her brother, John Wells. M. R. Halstead left this morning for his home at McLeod, Miss., after a visit of two weeks in Jasper county. He is well pleased with his southern home and is getting along nicely. The boll weavil has created such havoc among cotton giowers that the raising of cotton there has been largely abandoned and Mr. Halstead will not raise any this year. Alfalfa and sweet clover has taken its place. More corn and oats are also being raised. Corn is now being planted there.

FOR SALE. A good Oliver typewriter, No. 3; two upholstered rocking chairs, oak, in good condition; one spring eot and eotton mattress for same, in first class condition. Typewriter and chairs are at my home on South Weston street. Cot and mattress are at my shop on corner of alley, east of jail. J. P. GREEN.

Argentine Corn and United States Prices. We want every farmer and every person who lives in this agricultural section to read this article today. It is taken from The American Agriculturalist of March 7th. It will give you an idea how dernocratio tariff removal has affected the prosperity of the American farm. “The removal of the duty on corn opens our domestic market to sharp competition with Argentine, and the American farmer can now only hold our own market by meeting at home this same competition Avhich has driven him out of the European market. From the tail end of a relatively small crop we have imported in less than three months since the duty was taken off something like 7,000.000 bushels of Argentine corn, an amount sufficient in actual and* in sentimental effect to depress the price of all of our own corn possibly 10 cents a bushel. Tljis importation of Argentine corn is only a beginning, a suggestion of what we may expect. The area of the Argentine crop now maturing is nearly 8,000,000 and current estimates indicate a surplus for export this year of fully 250,000,000 bushels. “Argentine corn, May-June shipment, has been offered in New York at 64V 2 cents cost, freight and insurance, and at New Orleans and Galveston about a cent higher. The freight rate as far inland as Pittsburg or Buffalo is about 5 cents. “In the past 10 years the Argentine farmer has displaced the American farmer in the European corn market, and now '‘that he has a corn production which is increasing more rapidly than any possible European demand, we have presented him with the Atlantic and Gulf states market, which has heretofore bsorbed the western corn surplus. As It costs less to ship corn from the River Platte to New York than it does to ship from the Mississippi river to New York, it is evident that the Argentne farmers now hold the whp hand in our Atlantic and Gulf states market, and that hereafter the price of American corn will be determined by conditions in Argentina.” Here are shown the importations for the months of October, November and December, 1913, and the corresponding months of 1912: 1913 imports 1912 imports Oct 473,000 226,000 Nov 1,633,000 26.000 Dee 2,343,000 637