The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1905-04-26
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Here's my station.
"Hello, Neighbor; that wheat field
of yours is looking we'll. What are
you t. get tor wheat this Year,"
81 don't know. That depends on
how much is raised. Wheat is look
ing well. I'm afraid there will be an
over production, and the price'll be
mighty low"
~ see you are breaking ground for
big corn CROP"
Eyes, il the wheat fails or is too
low to bring anything we must have
lots of corn to make it up. -
Then you know what you are &C
ing to get for cornH"
mo, that depends on the crop; the
price is fixed oy supply and demand. "
THAT is fine, rich land you are fix
Ing to plant to potatoes.
"Yes, 1 must have something to fill
in the cbinKs If the price of wheat
and corn is down maybe the potatoes
will help us out. "
= "Yol make the price on the pota-
toes then, l reckon.
"Oh, no but som etimes the crop
is short in the main potato countries,
and then we get pretty fair price. -
II notice that big bottom meadow
is IN fine shape this spring. You are
sure to come out of the links when
your hay goes on the market.
Il don't know. Meadows are report
ed fine everywhere, and it is. likely
hay will be very low.
That orchard on the hill is very
full of bloom l see, and you Il
doubtless have fine fruit CROP"
There where have an advantage
over most of my neighbors; 1 have
good orchard. But tnen there is a
good prospect everywhere, and they
may not be worth much.
Don't you know what you are
going to get for anything you raIse?"
mo, no; that depends on the mar
ket.
"Who makes the marketP'
THE dealers The price is fixed by
the inflexible law of supply and de-
mand.
"HOw do you know it isT'
Everybody knows that 1t always
was and it always will. "
Now, look here, farmer DO you
know that you are the only - - - 49,
II wish Up to-Date had type that
new how to say words) laborer in all
this world that spends his life or any
part of 1t, making things that he has
no idea what he Is going to get for
when he sells them the only one that
takes his things after they are made
and tells the buyer to put price on
them and take them. -
But we farmers can't do anything
We are scattered over the country to-
much
care not the railroads and stations
scattered just as much as the farms
are? Is not oil, coal and manufacture
ing Just about as widely scattered?
And don't they put a price on every
thing they make or handle, and don {
you have to pay it or do without"
"Oh, yes, but they have their capt.
tai invested and lots of money behind
them, while we are nothing but farm
ers. "
Nothing but-What's the matter
with Secretary of Agrlculture..Wilso
He says there Is more capital invested
in farms than in all the trusts and
corporate ons combined, and that the
annual products of the farms represent
greater value than the output OF
all the factories, mines and everything
else combined. And yet the farmers,
with all this capital invested, and
producing all the wealth mentioned,
representing the very necessities OF
life, take a lower seat then the makers
of matches and tooth picks, and lei
other people fix price ON everything
they raise and every lick they strike.
The reader may put in words suit
able to the OCCASION the editor car
not.
ToH