Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1890 — PRICES OF FARM IMPLEMENTS [ARTICLE]

PRICES OF FARM IMPLEMENTS

American Buyers Not Discriminated Agai st by Home Manufacturers. Chicago Inter Oce>n. If. General Palmer really wants to compare the prices paid by Illinois farmers for the products of American manufactories with those paid for the same goods by foreign ■'-onsumers, we • give below a table for his use. It sets forth the prices charged in America and Great Britain for the same Amer- -- ican articles. If‘necessary we ean furnish the names and pages of the different catalogues from which these prices are taken. The list, with the British prices given in American currency, (s as follows: fl II I! ■eu tre ns c 2. i□. g g ARTICLES, og 8 o : ° a •5 > irt 3 5 IB : £ ? ? i£• 52. Planet, jr., combined drill, wheel-hoe, cultivator-rake and plow sl2 00 s3l 00 $3 31' Planet, jr., plain doublewheel hob ... 450 608 158 Planet, jr.. singl--wheel hie, cultivator and plowxxxir.”? 766 166 7 Fire-fly band-plow 250 828 78 Fire-flj’sngle-wheei hoe, culti- . vator and plow 500 '6 44 141 Planet, jr.. celery-earther.... 10 00 12 16 216 Eiterp ise lawn-mower, 11inchl 13 00 13 37 37 Hand-saws (Disston’s D 8) 26inch, per doz n 22 00 21 87 nand-saws (Digst it’s No. 7) 26 , , ; 1 inch, per dozen 20 09 20 41 41 Hand-aws (Disston’s Acme No. 120; 26 inch, per dozen 33 0 33 41 41 Bu k-saws (Disstou’s Climax No. 60). per doze i 10 00 10 21 21 Bu k-saws (Di stou’s No. 6), per dozen 950 911 39 Wringer, “A-M C 0..” No. 2... 3OU 30; 03 ‘‘Enterprise” sad irons,No. 59, per dozen 5et5.....~......;v SO 00 30 38 38 ‘‘Enterprise” bone, seell and Corn-mills, No. 730 7 s’. 765 15 ‘‘En erprise” coffee - mill, No. 8 ..-.M. 16 00 16 28 28 “E uerprise meat-chopper No 22.....,.-.. .... 4 0 4 01 01 ~ "Enterprise” meat- chopper , - No. 62• :co 00 204 12 412 Ice cream freezer (Star) 4 qts. 5 st> 559 09 1 ce-cream frei zer (Star) 14 qu 14 uO 14 21 21 Ice - cream freezer (Crown), witn flt-whe 1, 8 qts, 13 00 13 12 12 Ice cr am freezer (Crown' with fly-wheel, 32 qts...:, .. I 37 S' -31 Si 40 American Cake mixtu e. 6qt 35( 3 6 14

This list is not copy«gu(.ea. eral Palmer or whosoever will may freely use it. All we ask is that the farmers of Illinois and the general public be given the benefit of the information. We have only to add that herein may be seen a fair specimen of the difference between free-trade misrepresentations and the actual facts in the case.