Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-10-21
BETTER TIMES AHEAD.
Live Stock and Farm Produce show
an Increase I'm Value.

nm Increase I'm Value.
Owners of live stock have been dis
couraged, as rule, during the past five
years. Horses and sheep have been for
immediate returns very poor property.
Cattle and hogs have at times been valu-
able, but they too often have afforded
no encouraging returns. The signs of
the times are changing, and there is
now outlook for at least moderate inn
provement in all classes of live stock.
There is steady improvement in man
ufacturing business, and with the in
crease in such work there will be
greatly improved demand for good
horses. AS the income of salaried peo-
pie and wage-workers is advanced, the
grocers and other retail merchants will
be obliged to have more of the average
sized horses for use on delivery wagons.
This will afford a market to many farm
ers for their average horses, and there
will be tendency continually among
breeders, with advancing values, to pro-
duce better grade of stock for the fu-
ture. AS values of all the different
grades of equine stock improve there
will be much better feeling among
the general farmers which will cause
them to invest in much-needed new i'm
plements and machinery.
1t is usually necessary on the aver
age farm to depend upon such products
as the meats, butter, eggs, wool, ETC.,
for the current expenses and living of
the family. Permanent improvements
must be made, as rule, from the re-
turns of the occasional sale of a team
or single horse.
With the increasing value of all kinds
OF grain there is every reason to expect
an advance in the prices offered for all
grades of live stock. There has been a
greatly diminished condition of the
focks of the country, so that the fleeces
will not glut the near future. The dis
position of SO many people to economic
in clothing during later years will
necessarily, of course, force the masses
to buy more freely in the near future.
This urgent demand will advance val
ues materially. With the masses of
working people employed also, there
VIII be steady advance in the demand
for meats and the greater variety of
provisions. When families increase
their expenditures for the table there
will be sure and steady call for more
of the farmers products.
1t is generally claimed that the sup
ply OF hogs throughout the country is
less than for some years hitherto. The
markets at the yards indicate an up
ward tendency, so that producers Of
pork may take courage to give much
better care to the swine than they were
disposed to do of late because of low
values.
1t must be remembered that with inn
proving times and values in their
products the farmers themselves will
be disposed to use more freely better
foods for their tables and more of their
best products generally, because of the
fact that an increase in their incomes
will permit more liberal living. In too
many cases during panic times some
farmers felt themselves compelled to
use for their own provisions largely the
products which were perishable and to
some extent unstable. A slight inn
provement all along the line should
give courage for renewed effort.
Everything produced on the farm has
now enough worth to warrant the own
ers in giving it the best care and atten-
tion.-Farm and Fireside.