The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-20
PROFITS IN FARMING.
FARMERS TIRED OF PLAYING
HORRIBLE EXAMPLE,"
Iarin Discussion Should lie Popuiarized-
Protection ana Commerce Tariff Boi al
DEMONSTRATING Tar, n Pictures.

Tariff Discussion Should BE PopuIarized-
Protection ana Commerce Tariff Boi ed
DEMONSTRATING Tarn Pictures.
western farmers are getting tired of
playing the part of "horrible example,"
III the "reformer's" stump speeches.
Youthful Eastern dcmagogues, who
never saw a Western farm. are dashng
on awful descriptions of the miseries in
flicted by the tariff upon the West, while
the farmers themselves are producing
Facts and figures to show that they can
get along very well without any OF the
'reformer's" sympathy. Anything can
be overdone, and Western farming has
been no exception. But already the
dawn of better days is at hand for the
West, and the "reformer" will have TO
hunt up some new bogy to brighten yot-
erS in the future. The Des MoineS Iowa.
NepS says:
"Tho price of Iowa lands is advancing
The long stagnation of sales and deprc-
citation of values has given place TO an
active demand for lands and substantial
advance in values. Lands about Nor
walk, in Warren County, are now selling
at from $50 TO 500 per acre. Some Ohio
parties have recently refused $3.50 per
acre for a wild eighty in Buchanan
County. Sixteen dollars per acre have
recently been refused for wild lands in
Dallas County. Substantial advances are
also reported from southwestern Iowa.
The advance will average IS per acre for
the State. There is no county in the
State where the stagnant and Gepre-
ciatcd land market is not taking on an
active tone with better prices"
Mr.. j. +. Moates, a practical farmer of
Montgomery County, Kansas, shows that
farm ng II that State is as profitable as
any other business in the country. He
gives a detailed statement OF the cost OF
raising forty acres of corn, calculates
the amount realized, and shows that the
farmers profit on the capital invested is
no less than 23 per cent. Here are his
figures: Rent, 500; blowing. $40; har
rowing, SO; seed, So; planting, SO;
cult.vat ng, S45; husking. SO; Smelling,
ST. 40; marketing, $40: total cost of
producing. S3O2 40. Yield forty bushels
To the acre; price % cents per bushel-
S352 TO this is added 80 cents per acre
for the stock pasture, VIII CHI brings the
receipts up TO S372, and leaves him a net
profit of 800 60.
But these figures do not include nearly
all the income of an average farmer.
of this forty acres there are sold in the
meantime butter and eggs TO the value
OF perhaps 500, besides poultry, and
probably orchard and garden products TO
Il considerable amount.
When the income and expense of the
Eastern mechanic or tradesman, with
same amount of capital, arc compared
with these figures. tho holowncss Of the
Performers" croaking becomes even
more apparent. Practically all the
farmers income is net profit The me-
chanic's or tradesman profits do not
appear till the years house rent, and
hundred other family expenses for COM
forts enjoyed by the family without eX-
pense, are deducted from his income.
When the farmer wants to attond a
funeral, for instance, he bitches his own
horse on to his own carriage and goes.
The other pays SO for a carriage. Po-
tatoes, meat, green vegetables, fruit,
eggs. butter, bread, and numberless
articles of food must be purchased at
good round price by the dweller in the
city, and the purchase money deducted
from his income, before Il proper basis is
reach ID for comparison between his
and the farmers profits. These
facts are always carefully concealed by
the performer" "Eor the past twenty
years" writes Mr.. Moates, 81 have
carefully kept account of my business
and of all its details. / began with
very little, and whatever | have accu-
mulated is the result of Iowa farming
| have kept my ledger and ca,h book,
and each year has shown p goodly in
crease, either in the value of my plant
or my cash account
II is safe TO assert that no "protccted
robber" in the whole country can say as
much of his business. The progress
and increase of wealth i'm the Western
States belle the assertion that tariff
legislation has been prejudicial to West.
ern agriculture and in favor Of the
manufacturing States. -Americdl Econ
OnliSt.
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