The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-08-29

the entire country last year averaged less
than twenty bushels. Forty cents bush
al would be "A fair average price for corn.
and az this price the Indiana crop for the
census year would have been worth SIS
rer acre. or a total valuation ~ 1l,ss6S~.
instead Of SCI. 752si6. the census valuation.
The price was figured AZ less than %
cents In the census. but this was due 20
the fact that the corn market was sull
depressed In 1899 by the great surplus
crops carried over from previous years.
On whatever basis We figure. however. 4
Is very clear that corn IL thu great wealth
producing crop Of Indiana. and the de
mand is growing 80 rapidly for this crop
that II is likely 10 prove more profitable
in the future than in the past.
How to Make Corn Growing More
Profitable.
We live in an age OF progress. and the
farmers who make the most money are
those who are the most progressive IN
profiting by the experience OF others. The
man who feeds his corn to cattle and hogs
realizes more money for 1t. In ordinary
years. than the man who sells and ships
his grain. The man who feeds his corn
20 good graded cattle gets more beef from
the same amount OF feed than the man
who wastes his raw material on scrubs. y
and he also gets a higher price per hun
| dred fer his cattle. The man who uses
modern cultivators and planters can
raise more corn and thus produce more
with his seasons labor than the man
who pixies along with an old style one
horse cultivator or drill. The progressive
man makes money and lives well. willis
those who lack the intelligence and enter
Prise necessary 10 keep abreast OF ina
lrogress OF the age live in poverty and
| always have good apparent reasons for
I complaining Of hard times" IL Is les1
than twenty-five years ago since we had
riots on the farm I'm many parts OF Indi-
| ina In which labor-saving machines
| self binders-were destroyed by farm
lands who thought the introduction of
| these machines meant starvation for the
| hired man. II seems incredible TO us Of
| the present day that any ore could have
been so lacking in intelligence as TO re-
| s,st the introduction OF these benefcen'
machines Our modern inventions fol
saving labor on the farm have made the
farmer a business man who rides on =
spring seat and utilities his brains In 4
| manner TO do the labor OF twenty men
Instead OF toiling with his hands. as ir
| the past
Since Mccormick invented the reaper
in 1891. the first labor saving machine
ever used in the field we have had q
revolution in agriculture that has trans
| ferred the labor OF the field from th'
aching arms and backs Of men TO thu
horse or to steam power. Under the OLD
| regime farming was an Occupation II
which a man could make living ~
could raise enough to eat with his hands
and his wife could toll early and late =
make his homespun clothes. In addition q
her other household duties. going into tn
field with the rest OF The family In season
to drop. cover or hoe corn or 10 bind ate
the sickles or gather the eheaves AM
shock the grain. Perhaps they enjoyed
life in those days. because they knew
nothing better. but who among thos
who have lived to see the methods OF tn
twentieth century. would want to 80 bacl
TO the conditions OF hundred years ago
Who among our farmers wives an
daughters would have us return TO
system that would compel them TO toll 4
the fields with the men as OF oldT Whe'
the history OF the nineteenth centur