Arizona republican., 1891-07-19
PROFITS IN FARMING.
oEmAco6lc "REFoRMERSo MUST
 CHANGE THEIR TUNE.

Western Farmers Prospermg-How Their
 Profits Compare with the Eastern Tradesman and Meeaanic-Protcction
 Helps Agriculture.
 Western farmers are getting tired of playing the part of horrible example" in the "reformer's" stump speeches. Youthful eastern demagogues, who never saw western farm, are dashing off 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 we'll without any of the ''reformer's" sympathy. Anything can be overdone, and western farming has been no exception. ,Che Des Moines News says:
 "The price of Iowa lands is advancing. The long stagnation of sales and depre- aation 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 from fifty to sixty dollars per acre. Some Ohio parties have recently refused S22. 90 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 five dollars per acre for the state. There is no county in the state where the stagnant and depreciated land market is not talk I, s
 Mir J. F. Meats, practical farmer of Montgomery county, Kan, shows that farming in that state is as profitable as any other business in the country. He gives 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, Si00; blowing, $40; har- rowing, $10; seed, $5; planting, Sl0; cul- tivating, $i5; husking, $40; smelling, $12.40; marketing, $40; total cost of pro- ducing, $302.40. Yield, 40 bushels to the acre; price g cents per bushel-$352. To this is added 50 cents per acre for the stock pasture, which brings the receipts up lO To'@, anu itiNSS. ulIl a uet proul of $69.60.
 But these figures do not include nearly all the income of an average farmer. Off this forty acres there are sold in the meantime butter and eggs to the value of perhaps $l00, besides poultry and probably orchard and garden products to considerable amount.
 NNl,,,, bn ,nnn,,a onl ox,o.so of .Lo eastern mechanic or tradesman, with the same amount of capital, are compared with these figures, the hollowness of the "reformer's" croakings becomes even more apparent. Practically all the farm CTS income is net profit. The mechanics or tradesman's profits do not appear till the years house rent and a hundred other family expenses for comforts en- joyed by the farmer without expense are deducted from his income. When the farmer wants to attend funeral, for instance, he hitches his own horses on to his own carriage and goes. The other pays ten dollars for carriage. Potatoes, meat, green vegetables, fruit, eggs, butter, bread and numberless ar IlCltS Ol lOOu HlusJ D6 puICudSeu dI ti good round price by the dweller in the city, and the purchase money deducted from his income, before proper basis is reached for comparison between his and the farmers profits. These facts are always carefully concealed by the Ire former" "For the past twenty years, writes MT. Meats, 'I have carefully kept an account of my business and of all its details. 1 began with very little, and whatever have accumulated is the result of Iowa farming. have kept my ledger and cash book, and each year has shown goodly increase, either in the value of my plant or my cash account"
 It is safe to assert that no protected robber" in the whole country can say as much of his business. The progress and increase of wealth in the western states belle the assertion that tariff legislation has been prejudicial to western agricult. ure and in favor of the manufacturing ,k,ka