Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1912 — FARMER GETS LESS, BUT [ARTICLE]

FARMER GETS LESS, BUT

He Has to Pay More For What He Doesn't Raise*. The United States department of agriculture has just announced that notwithstanding the increased cost of living among tlie people as a whole there was a greater decline in the prices paid to farmers from Aug. 1 to Sept. 1 this year than there was last year.

The average farm prices of the important crops (corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye, flaxseed, [>otatoes. tobacco, cotton and hay. which represent about three fourths of the value of all the country’s crops) declined 7 per cent during the month, while in that time last year they declined in price only 4.4 per cent, and during the last four years the decline in price averaged 3.8 per cent. The average of farm prices on Sept. 1 was 2.8 per cent lower than on that date last year.

Prices paid to farmers on Sept. 1 this year, with comparison of prices paid on tiie same date last year, fol low:

1512. 1911 C°rn 50.776 |0.<59 Wheat ....................... 858 .848 oat s , 350 .404 Barley 335 770 B>'e .708 769 Buckwheat 7G6 .740 Flaxseed 1.626 2.036 Potatoes 650 1.137 Hay .... 12.140 14 610 Cotton 113 .118 Butter 242 "31 Chickens .i 113 ,ilj Eggs 191 .174 But the prices on tariff nurtured articles of manufacture which the farmer has to buy continue to soar

The third term candidate's favorite reply to the telling, unanswerable nr guments of Governor Wilson is that, the latter’s opinions are based "not on actual knowledge and experience, but ,by rending musty books on political economy.” The colonel himself at a tender age was put at hard labor! It is not often that a man whose whole life has been given up to politics and offieehoiding gets as horny handed as Mr. Roosevelt.in the rouks of labor and high finance.

Governor Wilson said to the newspa per men at the New York Press club banquet: “Suppose you bad a house of representatives mixed like the present senate. I think we could all go fishing for the next two years.” But he’s at the helm, and there won’t be any mix ing. Democrats—that’s all.