Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-07-26

1893 1877, 455, 1915
1917. .....---............. lS4, oOo, 7Oo
From this it will be seen that the av-
erage value Of the crops on Iowa farms
was $3.50, 227,S77 per year during the
four Democratic years and during the
three Republican years it has risen to
Sit, 7l5,050 per year. This year the
prospects, 80 Director Sage informs us,
are that the value of the soil products
of Iowa farms on Dec. LIST, next, will
exceed $40, 100000, and probably closely
approximate the record made by the
year 1891, which was $207, S41 200.
Figures of Cereal Production.
The production of cereals, which, Of
course. must enter largely into any
calculation of the value of soil products,
was, in bushels, as follows during the
Democratic period:
1873. .34O, Az 600
1881 .................... ..Zoo,o@o,OOO
1895. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. .52l ,63S, 900
1896. .....................4 AIS, 3l4, 900
Here it will be noticed that although
the cereal production of 1895 was more
than double that Of 1894, yet the farm
value of the soil products on the LIST of
December of that year was but $31 ,000,.
600 larger than in 1894. The cereal
production of 1896 was nearly one.
fourth larger than in 1894, and yet the
value Of the soil products in 1896 was
| 100000 less. Here plainly is an ex-
ample of the falling tendency of prices
during Democratic times.
The cereal production of the farms of
the state during the three years of Re-
publican rule is shown in the following
table:
1897. INSTRUMENTATION. 404 POS, 900
1898. ..................... .469, l72 900
loSS. 400, Ill,U
Dropping out the year 1894 and the
average production of the three Repub-
hcan years is only slightly more than
the average of the years 1893, 1895, 1896,
but the values show steady increase,
in spite of the retarding influence that
Mr.. Bryan ascribed to the gold stan
dard.
Gain In Republican Years.
AS shown by the table, the value of
soil products in 1896 was $133. 664, 623,
while in 1899 it was $l94, sos, FOG. The
difference in favor of the later, or Re-
publican year, is $50, 94l, 083. There
are in Iowa, according to the census,
204, 1886 farms. Averaging this gain by
the number of farms and we find that
each farm in Iowa gained on the aver
age $29S in 1899 over 1896.
1t may be claimed, however, that
while it is admitted that the prices of
the products of the farm have advanced,
the prices of the goods that the farmer
is compelled to purchase have also ad-
and so he is the loser in the end. Let
us examine this matter.
Bulletin No. % Of the national de-
partment of labor, edited by Carroll ID.
Wright, and issued in March, 1900,
gives very exhaustive review of the
wholesale prices of articles of consump-
ton in each quarter, beginning Janu.
airy, 1890, and ending July, 1899. This
summary includes the prices of food,
clothing, fuel and lighting, metals and
implements, lumber and building ma
terials, drugs and chemicals, household
furnishing goods, and miscellaneous.
Assuming 100 as the figure representing
the level of prices before 1890, the fiuct-
uation Of the average prices for the ar
ticles mentioned above, each quarter, Is
shown in the table as follows: