Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1919 — WHEATGUARANTEE HELPS ALL CROPS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WHEATGUARANTEE HELPS ALL CROPS

Acts as a Balance That WIH Sustain Present Prices on Ail Farm Products. FUT THE SURPLUS INTO BONDS Federal Reserve Board Looks t* Farmer for a Generous Support of the Coming Victory L Liberty Loan. The United States Congress has appropriated $1,000,000,000 to guarantee tlie American farmer $2.26 a bushel for his 1919 wheat crop, a price which 1* $1 a bushel more than he might reasonably expect if American wheat was thrown on the market to compete with Argentine, Australian and Indian wheat. The American farmer has responded to ' the government’s guarantee by pledging the production of millions of bushels more wheat than he hasFevergrown before, according to officials of the United State* Food Administration’s Grain Corporation. The American fanner has never been in better financial condition, the officials say. The report of the Federal Reserve Board shows that th* 1918 farm crop added $17,000,000,000 to the wealth of the country. The corn crop alone put $3,528,313,000 In the farm-

er’a pocket. Hay added $1,500,000,000 to the farmer’s Income. Apples brought him 9290,000,000. Oats sold on the farm for something over $1,000,000,000-. The guaranteed price of wheat will not only assure the farmer a profit on whaat, but will also sustain the prices on other farm products. Food Administration officials point out. With the return of an abundance of labor, the farmer is assured a highly prosperous /ear. With the surplus the farmer has from his last abundant harvest and with his present season’s return in a large measure guaranteed, the Federal Reserve Board looks to the farmer for a generous support of the coming Victory. Liberty Loan. The securities to be offered will merit his attention M first class investments, aside from their patriotic appeal. “Sixty thousand American lads, many of them farmer boys, gave their lives for the freedom of democracy,” said an official of the United States Food Administration. “Had the war continued throughout next summer, as our military chiefs believed tt would, two hundred thousand Americans and many more hundreds of thousands of their compatriots would have been sleeping in Flanders’ fields and beneath the sod of France and Lorraine , ..F.F.- — “That these lives were spared was due in a large measure to the lavish expenditure of the United States government in assembling men and munitions to crush Germany. Most of the men and even less of the material of war was never used. Vet the mighty preparations of our government forced the Germans to cry ‘Kamerad.’ “The American farmer’s sons are coming home for the most part unscathed. For this the American farmer is -duly grateful. From his abundance from the past year and from his assured prosperity for the coming season, he should and will set a new record, a Thanksgiving record, in his subscription to the Victory Loan.”