Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-06-08
NO.. 3.

To use OF implements Iano improve
ments and decline In value Of stock
0to..... 1000
To clothing for family of four persons. 1000
To doctors bills. Observation-Disclosures. 5000
To taxes on $40 GOO ..-................... Moo
Total investment. .MA xo2s
RECRIP7a
By produce $50 acres Of cotton ieo -
pounds lint cotton Per acre, at oeats
Per pound ..-.-.-....--......S y A0A0
Farm. implements and pro
visions ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 100000
IL d2s
Net loss TO farmer annually. ..... S0Aoo
Igather from the above that the cotton
farmer owning 800 acres of land got
for his years labor experimenting the
production Of . crop Of cotton, Q bare,
very bare subsistence" including
coarse, common clothing. and literally
came out In debt for his taxes and 90. 90
besides So far as his economic rent"
was concerned, he got nothing, abso-
lutely nothing for the use of his land or
capital invested In improvements, work
stock, implements, etc. II the annual
balance sheet had been for the crop
year Of 1912 with cotton selling for
cents or less, our farmer must have bor-
rowed as much as 81, 900 to tide him
over for another crop. This throws
some light upon the causes which oon-
spire to put the southern farmer in
debt
Now in the case of this farmer it is
shown that he expended only the sum
of s725 for provisions, provender, cloth
ing, doctor bills and taxes, and had to
hn1-T ~ fhak A. l.
tariff upon provisions or provender, or
doctor bills, the only reduction in his
expenditure the single tax system would
have effected is-say $a5 tariff on his
clothing and SIS tax included In the
price of his clothing, provision and
provender, and also the s75 he paid in
direct taxes, leaving his expenditure at
S6o0-with an addition of the single tax
economic rent" Of $500, or per cent.
upon 5000, the value of the ''bare
land" allowing s2,eoo for improve
ments Thus we easily prove that the
single tax would worst our cotton
planter just s175 for the year. It will
be readily understood that if the price
Of cotton is so low that the cotton
grower Is unable to ''shift" his economic
rent, 1. e., include in the price of his
cotton the interest upon the value of
his bare land, the single tax would
have to come out of his principal-that
is to say, he must mortgage his land for
money to pay It.
How Is it with the grain grower Of
the west and northwest?
Equally with the cotton growers of
the south the victim of damnable con-
spiracy between the plutocrats of
America and England, his great staple,
wheat, is lowered Ia price by tho de-
monetization Of silver, the legal tender
basis of his principal wheat growing
competitor. So completely Is he the
victim OF adverse circumstances thai I'll
business rules and laws of commerce are
reversed to aid in his robbery and spolia-
ton. The dealers from whom he buys his
machinery and implements, and grocer
les and clothing, and his fuel, all add
the cost OF transportation to the first cost
OF the commodities they sell him. But
when he sells his wheat he must deduct
from the price Of 1t the cost Of transpor-
tation over 1900 miles of rail and across
5000 miles Of water, although II his
merchant were to buy his bread In
Liverpool the cost of transportation
would come out Of his pocket Thus
the tariff upon wheat, held up to the
farmer as blessed protection, is, in
fact, a curse, as without tariff New
York would be his market, instead of
Liverpool, and he would escape the cost
OF ocean transportation. In immense
blocks of granite and brick are legal
lied gambling halla, called boards Of
trade, wherein the products Of the
farmers are made the playthings of
commercial gamblers, who buy and
sell enormous quantities Of mythical
products and bet On prices going up or
down
What, then, would tho annual balance
sheet Of western or northwestern
grain and stock farmer look HkeP /
shall endeavor to answer this question
by tabulatinR the result of the crop Of
1891 for the whole state of Kansas, thus
presenting an annual balance sheet for
the farmers Of Kansas as a whole class
Kansas in the year 1891 raised q won.
derfnl crop-an exceptionally good one
and tho result Of such crop will
put the best possible coloring and
present the most favorable aspect
of the business Of farming In Kan
sas as profitable or income pro-
ducing business The official figures
given by Mr.. Martin Mohler, secretary
Of the state board of agriculture, will be
used a. far IS practicable.
As nearly a. oen figure out, there
are 200, 900 families, of five members to
the family, engaged In the ocoupation
OF farming In Kansas, and they are Gull
tivating 200. 900 farms, of 125 acres 10
the farm, or -, ,eoO, 900 acres of land, In
cluding pasture and hay lands These
are, however, only approximate figures,
In the absence Of the exact facts, as as
certained by the census
Mr.. Mohler gives the total product of
the state, with approximate quantities
OF each product available for market
and sale:
Bushs,a
Winter and spring wheat ...... $3.50. SSs
Kept for bread and seed. IL $50 65s
Available for market. IS 100000
Corn crop Tor 1881 9l..................13o 1872 36S 99I
Amoons ieo en- farms. 10i, ,363, ,991
Available fer market. 100000
Oats crop of 1891 1................... 90 pO4, ,44a
Amount fed on farms. 25. 0O4 4la
Available for market. MooO, 900
hSe ana barley, is0l 0l................. 6,44e, ,l1o
We have then for sale:
100000 bushels wheat a Co., s27, 200
100000 bushels corn a 30c ..... 10, 500 900
l4,ooo 600 bushels oats q 2oc........ $500 900
100000 bushels rye and barley at SOC. I.00O0oo
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