People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1895 — Coat 900,000,000 Bushels. [ARTICLE]

Coat 900,000,000 Bushels.

In the administration of Franklin Pierce —and it certainly was never accused of severe economy—the total cost of the national government was not quite 40,000,000 bushels of wheat per year. For the fiscal year 1865, during which the government expended much more than in any other year of the war, the total cost was not quite 700,000,000 bushels of wheat. Last year It was more than 800,000,000 bushels, and what it will be for this fiscal year God only knows, for on the day I write this the export price of wheat In New York is 56 cents, and the market is noted as “dull.” It cannot fall below 900,000,000 bushels in any event, or 30 per cent more than in the most expensive year of the civil war. J. H. BROWNING.