The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-04-12
OPPORTUNITY
t>erythjno Coming His May il lie
WIFE Only See II.

~ the theory that the increased sup
,3- of money and the decreased sup
an- Of foodstuffs afford the farmer his
greatest opportunity. The article is
.s follows and is well worth reading:
The stock OF money in this country
today is approximately $3,13o.ooo,oe
0,an years ago it was $2,340,ooo,0oo-
This is a gain OF $4,000, 00o, or APP
rroximately 50 per cent.
Authoritative statistics show that
the 1908 wheat crop was S.3 bushels
ger capita, against S.6$ bushels per
,aDita ten years ago; the corn crop
,1roDDnd from $40 to 800 bushels
per capita: the oats crOp from ia
TO Ill bushels per capita; the hay
crop from / ton to "a Of a ton per
,apita, and the number Of foo ami
mails. swine, cattle and sheep, fell
rom - to 1.9 per capita.
In the matter of meats the govern
t0ent returns issued on the 18th OF
January show. under the head OF
swine (hogs), that the total
in 1900, Of 1900, 000. fell TO 47,0oo,-
600 in 1910, q decrease Of nearly 10
per cent. Other cattle in 1909. 40
100000. fell TO $4,000, 600 in 1919.
Number of Cattle Killed.
me HUN bti Oh CoiI1t NI'ICN tt111t]
the inspection law in the United states
IN 1907 was 7,621,717: in 1909 it had
fallen to 7,325,337; during the same
period there was an increase in the
humber Of calves killed from 1,7t3,-
574 to =. 046.712. The receipts of
hogs at the markets fell 1873 per
cent from 1907 to 1908. When the
panic Of 1907 came ON, many Of the
farmers in the west sold their hogs
because food was too high to feed
them, and these brooding herds a
not been replaced.
In the matter of the production Of
fruits, the leader and standard (be-
United states, have fallen from 6S,-
noo.000 barrels in 1865 to 2~1,o0o,0oo
Barrels in 1909.
Here is money. per dollar. d~ecrcas-
rs in its purchasing power because
"f a 20 per cent increase in volume
Here is an increasing deficit III the
tj"ld crops per capita. Here is q
marked decrease in hogs and cattle
supply. Ieye is a decrease in the
'~ader among all the fruits (apples)
Of approximately 20 per cent.
on the top of all this is an average
jarif Of SO per cent ON all foreign
food stuffs.
III Farmers Chance.
As 4 result of all these things
't' t'ESVc SNptiS ~ 1ii'i1NS t'|
decreased supply of all food stuffs,
and the tariff-the prices Of beef,
pork, and its by-products, mutton,
chickens, eggs, butter and milk. and
oil other food prodUcts-taken on an
aNorage-haye neNer been as high as
NOW. barring, of course, the var
prices of the SOS.
Is not this the Southern farmers
golden opportunity?
The telegraph has shown in pre-
NI0NS articles that in 1850. when the
reputation in Georgia Wa 1,057.286,
There were in this State 2,036,116
hogs In 1907. with u population Of
-,'e0.Qoe, there We're only 1880 00
hogs, With the population more than
doubled, the number OF hogs has been
reduced nearly onc-half.
h Telegraph has shown that in
1851. there were 299,638 milch COWS.
IN 1907, 0S,000-an increase Of only
NIP. That in 1850, there were oXeT
AN" other cattle, 706.194. In 1907.
,H7,o00-decrease of 26.134. That III
800 there were 5t2,618 sheep. II
I"oI. 296,000--a decrease Of 243,618.
Tn" Telegraph has shown that il
1>3o: When Georgia's population was
I(''.@53, Georgia farmers owned l.
'-',0V8 swine. IN 1907. when the
population had increased to 2,70O,00
10" swine owned by Georgia farmers
"r"feas@d to 1900, 00o-a loss o.
-\.eoS. That in 1890, the sheep own
81 ny Georgia farmers numbered
t'I,@'6. In 1907 they had decreased
L" 269,00o-a loss Of approximately
"'i"-halt. That in 1896. Georgia
owned @"4,618 mitch COWS. In 1eoI
.l' Homher fell to 30S, 0G0-a loss .
1858.
Cost OF a Pound Of Meat.
-Ii OF these figures are amazing
''l lhFy are collected from the mos
|IlttBlG sources yEFcS cali Jn thu
'"lfner with irresistible ~e1oquence ant
."Ite. They cry aloud to them Il
itahl less cotton and more grain; tG
."ISr more cattle and hogs-not as {
patriotic thing, but as q proht-makin;
BUSINESS. 1t is the armer' Oppor
'uhI}. His day has come. if he i:
No enough to read the signs Of tn
''nrS II take advantage Of it.
ood is The first and the last 0
go. hdlufal man. All men must eat
''Ef%thlnS else is secondary. w
IAN 90 naked and live in the woods