Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-08-20
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| production. In the 'voice OF tho
farmer" in reply to his inquiries, he
omits tho important fact OF the loca-
ton and names OF tho parties. Here
and there 4 county Is given. The
Nonpareil in sitting these answers
| finds the names OF seventeen counties.
| They are, Allamakee. Appanoose
Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone. Clay,
Clinton, Des Moines, Greene. Hardin.
Howard, Madison. Mahaska, Marshall.
Mitchell, Monona and Union. The
reports from these are mostly bad,
| representing no profit, decrease 10
population, and mortgaged farms.
The facts concerning these counties
as shown by the United States census
| are:
1880 1870 Increase.
| Population .3H,3D3 20 S6S3 1910
| Allamukeo and Mitchell are the only
counties In the list showing II decrease
and that Is trining. As TO the number
and value OF acres mortgaged in 1889.
compared with 1890, the census shows.
Es 1881. Decrease,
| Number OF acres
m,r tglgc /. 4Sl $50 bla,4l7 2E1;s
| Value Of mort.
cages ,9I5 1884 siaSo,i7o sI5e,aa
| AS there was IAN increase OF 50, no
in population In 1890 and decrease
OF 27,77S in the number OF acres mort.
gagged In 1889 at an enhanced valua.
ton, this disposoS Of the charge that
land In these seventeen counties has
| deprecialc ed in value or that population
has decreased. As tho Labor Com
missioner puts It lin many localities
| farm values have not materially in"
creased during ton years just past"
! II this Is tho case, how does he ac-
count for tho decrease in the mort
gagged acreage at an enhanced valua-
ton. Mortgage companies never loan
I'm additional amount on u decreased
acreage and deprociatng values. Tho
commissioners statement Is au alb
surdlty. In making up his tables estl-
mating the cost Of producing corn, ho
assumes that all tho farmers OF Iowa
are tenants. For this, no allows u
charge OF per cent on tho invest
mont. While charging this percent
! ago TO the cost OF producing corn he
says: 'Not having time to investi-
gate tho exact relationship tho acre
age rental price of Iowa farm lanus
bear to tho expense paid by tho rent
ors, and ~ farm owners are moro nu-
morous than the farm rontors and as
both systems could not be used In tho
same table tho rental value Is rejected
~ basis of circulation" stu he
holds on to this charge, aud assumes
that the farmers arc all doing business
on borrowed capital Or, again rs he
puts IT. "Noone will deny tho manu-
incturers' right to apply these rules.
| for tho reason that no other rules Will
permit person to do business on bor-
rowed capital and succeed" Ia short,
according to the commissioner, Iowa
farmers arc all tenants; Iowa farmers
a"e not all tenants; the average rental
price In not known, therefore 3 per
| cent on tho Investment 10 allowed, be-
cause the farmers cannot DO business
on borrowed capital, hence they must
be all borrowers. Another item In tho
I commissioners tables is tho charge
for fcrtiii1ing. In this, he gives every
county In the state. Grundy county,
where Tho Nonparicl Is informed, Gov.
ernor Boies owns u large farm. Is
rated Mt ~ cents an acre, and other
counties range upward as high ms
1928. This places Iowa IN the light
OF desert, and it Is not surprising, II
true, TO tho commissioner, that the
National Department OF Agriculture
shows loss OF $lal ,S06,377 TO tho
producers OF Iowa corn for tho period
given" while he puts it at S6i, $40, 769
in ten years; u difference OF u littlo
more than $77, 900, 000-that's all.
But 1t isn't all! In his table he also
makes the charge OF IS cents an acre
for Smelling corn, 'including all hands
and machine" but allows nothing for
value OF tho cobs. TO cover this. no
says; "The value OF cobs and stalks
in the field Is more than counterbal-
anced by the incidental expenses OF
production not considered in this re.
port" To be accurate, or even to
make anything like a reliable esti-
mate, careful statisticlan should
have given these incidental expenses.
Otherwise, one must jump ut conclu-
| sions, as the commissioner has done.
He give the cost Of producing corn at
| $l0:33 per acre In Iowa. In this table
he names, tertilizing SSc, Smelling 75c,
and per cent interest on the invest
ment, assuming all the Iowa farmers
to be borrcwers) or $2.55 per acre.
Total s.. per acre for fertilizing,
Smelling and interest
As Iowa Is desert, II the commits.
| missioner's estimate Is correct the corn
acreage OF 1890 was S,77l, 299 acres.
| At 8S cents per acre for fertllizlng
this amounts TO $7,7lS,7i3.l2 As the
price oil corn cobs will easily average
| 20 cents n load, two loads to the acre.
here is an item OF 1885, 645 accruing
TO the farmers not considered by the
commissioner. The interest rate he
averages at $3.50 per acre for the
whole state. This amounts TO $22,-
| 500, Sl2.45! In all these three Items
amount to s3i, All, 200 81, which over
| balances the commissioners statement
OF loss on the corn crop OF 1889 by
BIZ, 000,0 Now as we know Iowa
| is not desert; that farmers receive
something for the corn crops after
| shelling, and That interest Is re-
source 10 the farm owner, IL is evident
somebody got some OF this money, II
not the whole OF 1t, that the commits
sioner has made gigantic error In
his estimates, and that Governor Boies'
New York banquet speech was glar-
ing misrepresentation of the condition
| of the Iowa farmer, which ought TO be
resented. Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
Democrats are in such a chronic state
OF poli;ica temper that ell references
to hot weather are offensive to them
because hot weather is making corn
aud corn this year ought to be fail
ure to prove that Gov. Boies' New
York speech was not SANDER.
Heuceforth corn will be a political