Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-02-26


ments of one, at that rate il would take
254,0 to prove the statements OF 50l
and lie will have to 60 outside of the
state for 5i0iG, for there are only
100000 farmers in Iowa. iou would
NATURALLY conclude that hc needed some
proof for his o04 if you would examine
and see how wild some Of them have
guessed. For instance ;,3l.G6 for ma
nure. Some of the 50i must value a
load of manure pretty high. | nave
just taken the answers of fifteen farm
erS just as | met them and without let
ting them know my object until after
they had guessed and then | made an
average and found it to be less than II
loads per 40 acres according TO their
guesseS. l say guessing because il is
all guess work at last and you might
just as well have J04 men guess at
the weight of a horse and then make an
average and call that the weight of the
horse.
Next we find stalk cutting valued at
S20.31. Now when we take III TO con-
Sideration that about tWo-thirds OF the
corn in this country is raised OH stubble
ground and that the stalk cutter is used
on less than half OF the remainder, you
will readily see that it would make the
actual cost over 800 per 40 acres, that
is assuming S2O.37 to be the average
cost for the entire crop.
Here is some more of their guesses.
Flowing ground, 5000; narrowing
twice, $3.50; planting, S'l3.35; seed corn,
$i7.05; cultivatlng three times, $500;
nusking, $40; Smelling, Sji.63: hauling
miles, $500: tax on land, go; tax on
horses etc, 50; eight per cent on land,
Si0LI7. These are pretty high figures
out here is an item that takes the cake,
So for repairs on fencing. Allowing
~ cents per rod for wire, - cents Il
piece for posts and cents per rod for
building, 1920 would build q two
wire fence, posts two rods apart clear
around 40 acres. Show me the 10 acres
If farm land in this country tina has
$50 worth of fence that is directly
thargeable to one 40. Furthermore we
don't fence land in this country to raise
corn on we fence it for the pasture and
nothing more and what ever the pasture
IS worth should be deducted from the
cost of the corn. But perhaps lie means
&c ,airs on house, barn, hog pen etc, and
If he does | would answer by saying
that did not build my house, barn or
hOg pen 10 raise corn i'll. | built my
house to live in, my barn to keep my
nOrScS and cows in and my hog pen to
keep hogs in. Any man that is apt
enough in calculations 70 count the
:Orn to a horse knows that it don't take
S6J per year to keep the fence III repair
lround - acres of farm land, and any
nan that would send in such report
Is that, | would think did it to help the
Governor raise the average cost Of
III acre OF corn.
Here is another item that is rs badly
inflated as the repair questiGn-Cost of
crib room S2lG6. Now twice this would
build new crib and good one too, to
aold the 1860 bushels tnat he talks about
But according to his other argument all
that should be charged for crib room
would be eight per cent Oh thC cost OF
the crib, eight per cent on 1892, S34G
but according TO his own argument even
that is not low enough for this country
for he says that the corn is sold soon
,fter corn harvest. That being about
true the greater part of the corn that is
sold in this country is never in a Grill
| until it is sold, consequently this item
should be blOtted out so far as this parl
| of the country is concerned.
According to these figures 20 acres
of corn would cost S75J.S3 or SiIS.Sg pei
acre. This is pretty wild guessing,
quite difference between this and the
guessing Of the Governor who guessed
chat it only cost - per acre which is
not 50 very wide Of the mark. But the
| labor commissioner is going right OH
guessing and averaging and the --latest
revised sheet of gue>seS and average;
makes an acre of corn cost @lO.i3 OF
| S2.73 cents more than it did when Boics
made his speech. The only way that ]
can account for this Sab rise is that
the weather is colder nov than it was
when he made his speech and that il
costs more to raise corn in the winter
| than in the summer. The fact is tina
these gucsses are so wide apart thai
| they are absolutely worthless. We viii
| admit that raising corn is not now MOI
never was us profitable as it ought t
De. But the Governor seeks TO misleat
| by simply asserting that these Condi.
tiOnS exist now, since he left the re
| publican party and holds out the idea
| that they did not exist while he was III
the republican party nor under any
democratic administration. presume
| he would have tainted if some person
in the audience had jumped up while
he was making that speech AMI asked
him the price of farm products in lows
during Buchalan's administration.
do sincerely wish that BOie and Soy
ereign with the help of the well known
heifer calf could raise the Price of eat
| tie and hogs and | don't believe would
kick if corn was higher. am very sor
| ry to have to sell the products of my la
Dor at present prices, but hope to Goo
/ that farm prodGcts will not get as low
| rs they did in Iowa under tbs last ful.
| hedged democratic /. {. Buchanan's ad
ministrgtiop. remember of my father
selling fat cattle for 81 and SIPS ani
fat Logs for Si.6o per cWt. don't SCI
why it Is worse to take present prices
under republican ad Illustration thar
| it would be to take even lower price
| under a democratic administration, fol-
Judging the future by the past we neeC
not look to the democratic party Tor lie
lief. Gov. Boies saying that these con
| ditions exist now without saying any
thing about whether they were tn
same under democratic rule or 10
makes me think Of one of my neighboT
last campaign who Said to me 'grea
God the Mckinley bin puts a tariff o.
boots and shoes Of . per cent
simply asked him what rate the Mill
bill placed on the same article. lie SAT-
he did not know. j told him that
could not help il that lie did not kno'
and thus our argument eadedi
Loses 81 cents per acre. II seem
silly TO speak of this Old thread bar
story that almost every person know
is not true. that it ia not true in til
light that he speaks Of it, i naaa
lose 81 cents in any business is 81 cent
worse off than if he had stayed out :
+. that business. So man to lose {
: cents GI IN acre of corn is 81 cent
worse oil than IT lac lad not raised tn;
acre of corn; that Is lie would be
, cents better Off idle which every perso
knows is not true. Why didn't he til
with some sense and tell the truth an
! say that a farmer ought to have mol
c money for his corn then we would a
! agree with him aud 10 one would ca
= whether lie guessed we ought u has