The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-04-30
Profits = In Farmi ng.

MWestern Farmers are getting tired OF
pasying the part of "horrible example"
In the "reformer's" stump speeches.
Youthful Eastern demagogues, who
never saw Western farm, are dashing
OF awful descriptions of the miseries in
Aicted by the Tariff upon the West,
while the farmers themselves are pro-
'ducing the fact and figures to show that
they can get along very well without any
oil the "reformer's" sympathy. Any
thing can be overdone, and Western
farming has been no exception. But al
ready the dawn OF better days is at hand
for the West, and the "reformer" will
have to hunt up some new bogy to
brighten voters in the future. The Des
Moines (Iowa) News says:
The price of Iowa lands is advancing.
The long stagnation of sales and depre.
citation of values has given place to an
active demand for lands and substantial
advance in values. Lands about Nor
wark, in Warren County, are now selling
at from $50 to $50 per acre. Some Ohio
parties have recently refused $22.20 per
acre for 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 stag.
nant and deprecated land market is not
taking on an active tone with better
prices.
Mr.. j. F. Meats, Practical farmer of
Montgomery County, Kansas, shows
that farming in that State is as profitable
as any other business in the county.
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
is no less than 90 per cent. Here are
his figures: Rent, SlOO; piowing, $40 f;
narrowing, $40; seed, S.; planting, $40 F.;
acultivating, $45; husking, $40; Smelling,
Sl2.40; marketing. $40; total cost of pro-
ducing, 1902 40. Yield 40 bushels to the
acre; price % cents per bushel-S352.
To this is added so cents per acre for the
stock pasture, which brings the receipts
up to 1872, and leaves him net profit OF
S69.6O.
But these figures do not include nearly
all the income of an average farmer. OF
this 40 acres there are sold in the mean.
time butter and eggs to the value of per.
haps slOO, besides poultry, and probably
orchard and garden products to con.
siderable amount.
When the income and expense of the
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
farmers income is net profit. The me.
chanic's or tradesman's profits do not ap.
pear till the years house rent, and q
hundred other family expenses for com.
forts enjoyed by the farmer without ex-
pense, are deducted from his income,
When the farmer wants to attend a
funeral, for instance, he bitches his own
horses on to his own carriage and goes
The other pays $40 for 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 in.
come, before a proper basis is reached
for comparison between his and the
farmers profits. These facts are always
carefully concealed by the reformer. "
'For the past 20 years." writes Mr..
Moates," have carefully kept an &C.
count of my business and of all its de.
tails. began with very little, and what
ever have accumulated is the result OF
Iowa farming. have kept my ledger
and cash book, and each year has shown
agoodly increase, either in the value of
my plant or my cash account"
1t is safe to assert that no protected
robber " in the whole country can say
- much of his business. The progress
and increase of wealth in the Western
States belle the assertion that Tariff leg.
islation has been prejudicial to Western
agriculture and in favor of the manu-.
featuring States.-American Economist.