Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1900 — Advance in Farm Products. [ARTICLE]

Advance in Farm Products.

Next to the wage earner, the cites most benefited by the revival of prosperity under a Republican administration are the farmers. The general rise in prices in all agricultural products has transformed their industry from depression to thrift. Experts, have estimated that the products of agriculture last year were worth a billion and a half of dollars more than any year during the Cleveland-Wilson Repression from 1892 to 1896. 'This is an average increase of 31 per cent. Live stock in general has gained in value 38 per cent, and crops show an increase of 25 per cent. The products of live stock, including meats, dairy products, etc, have increased 40 per cent over the lowest point during the period mentioned. Horses = have increased one-third, cattle about 40 per cent, and sheep have about doubled in value. In values of farm lands there is a decidedly upward tendency and sales are far more numerous, as a results of better prices for farm products, and the number and amount of mortages are materially decreased A brighter dawned for the farmers of America, and the restless, panicky class of agricul- . turists who in 1896 were prone to believe in free silver as a panacea for their ills, are now contented and happy and confirmed in the belief that protection and prosperity go hand in hand and that sound money and confidence are the foundation of all industrial progress.