The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1896-10-30
TIE FARMERS TOOLS.
Efficiency Of AGRICULTURAL impie-
ments Greatly Increased
Since 1873.

Tho silver advocates hare had 20 many
Of their pct theories absolutely dcmoi.
ishcd hy collision with hard facts that
they are now rcsorting TO deliberate mis-
representation in hope of breaking the
force Of the various exposures they arc
meeting. They have attemptc,i 10 make
much capital out of the decline in the
price Of wheat during the last. few years.
ana when attention has been called 10
the chcnfcning In the cost Of production
ly the ilsc of new and improved ninchin-
cry and the rapid enlargement OF the
commercial surplus of wheat in other
whcztt-..rOwing countries than the United
States they have undertaken TO deny
both propositions.
In n speech Mt the Central Music hall
ON September 10. Gov. Altseld IN at
tempting TO answer the arguments prc-
scented by Carl Schurz in an address In
the same hall earlier in the cau,pai..n.
s2eakins Of the decline, in wheat, said:
The truth is that there hns'bacn Srnrr,.-
~ any improvement in, machinery for
raising and harvesting wheat In The last
twenty year,"
Such u statement Is n severe reflection
either upon the inventive genius of
American manufacturers and the rro-
Srcssire spirit of American farmers or
self. ss'1 D'Hs
The truth is that the greatest imDn,ve-
nents IN farm implements and machinery
that have marked the latter half Of The
Nineteenth century have been made
since 1873. Not only has the retail nrice
Of ail classes of implements used on the
Iarin been. very much reduced during
tnat time. but the efficiency of the mn
chinery itself has been even more e:,or-
mously increased. Taking the harvester
alone II has been so improved during tho
last twenty years that one man can now
accomplish what required the labor OF
i've in 1873. so thar instead Of there
beng scarcely any Improvement in ma
provements in the harvester alone arr
shown fully. In other words. II today
sniy requires onc-fifth of the labor cos,
10 harvest grain that it did twenty years
To entirely overthrow this last perver-
SION oil truth; with which silver men arr.
trying TO bolster up losing cnnse. rn.
tan prices of some of the PRINCIPAL farm
machinery have been secured from lead.
ing manufacturers showing the cost to
The farmer in 1878 and the cost in iSeS'
As the wheat crop begins with the piow.
n M .ne c, following statement from the
Bend. Ind, and see how the cost ~
plows has been reduced.
we manufacture plows alone and In
the year 1913 chilled plows OF the nm.
bers ~ and 40 were the leading nat.
terms The same numbers arc rerr
largely used at this time and our com.
parsons arc accordingly based on them.
e,ihn lisa The retail price OF the No. % wa.
Il, II 1873 the retail price OF the No. 20 va.
The same plows now retail at $50 zach
Gnt Ehares for these plows In is53 re
tailed st 80 cents each; now retail Al n
JoInters for these piows "a ls7s re,.,,.a :,
SSN each: now retail at 81 each.
., Maneeis for these plows 10 1873 retalied Al
siSsyv eaen: nov retail at 81 each.
Clevises for these plows In iS13 retalIed =,
eacn; now retail at Is cents each
Ana other items In about the same ratio.
The construction and quality of the
goods are far better than In 1879
ID. ". Osborne and Company Of An.
purn, y. u. the great manufacturers Of
harvesting machinery, quoting from their