Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1899 — More About That Thirteen Cent Corn. [ARTICLE]

More About That Thirteen Cent Corn.

Mr. Editor: In the matter of the corn controversy Bro. Smalley says I do not stick to the text. Let him examine my first article in your issue of Feb. 24, where I copied the following statement from your editorial of previous date. ‘•A careful Carpenter township farmer finds that it costs him 13 cents a bushel to raise and market corn/’ Now who is off the text Bro. S? lam sorry to disappoint Bro. S as I have never attended Agricultural College, but do read Experiment Station reports as well as some good agricultural papers. Would like for Bro. S. to read in the Copy of The Ohio Farmer, issue of March 9th, where the editor revises the itemized statement of a man who bad the nerve or audacity or recklessness to claim it cost only 7 cents per bushel to raise corn. The editor in the revised figures ‘ shows the cost to be 23 cents per bushel. The figures given by Bro. S. cannot be called even approximate. The men who claim to raise corn at 7 cents to 13 cents per bushel are classed as “rain-bow-chasers.” They succeed best as agents selling implements etc-, as they appeal to the imagination rather than the judgement of men. As Bro. 8. took the affirmative of this question, let him furnish proof or be silent. I offered double the wages tie claimed for breaking the ground, yet nd one accepts. We want facts, no chaff. Yours truly,

O. C. HALSTEAD.