The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-09
FILLER Of SOIL
IN HIGH CLOVER.
Farmers Not Entllusing Over Eff
forts to Reduce
Prices.
|
FIGURES SHOW INCREASES
Statements From Departments
OF Commerce and Labor
and Agriculture.
FIGURES SHOW INCREASES
LspeeIal % rhe Tlmes.nlsnatcli

Washington, February S.-There may
be bareback in the agitation over
the increase in the cost of food and
other products" The farmers of the
country are not enthusing Very much
over tae effort to reduce things 10
eat and wear. With cotton bringing
10 cents. turkeys from 10 10 %, and
beef, TO cents per pound, and hens
/. from 40 10 60 cents apiece. and other
farm. garden and barnyard truck UP in
, proportion. the tiller of the soil is in
high clover, and he has not time to
worry about the other fellow. His
song Is TO this effect: Every dog has
his day"
Some Interesting Figures.
In response 10 a Senate resolution
calling for information relating to the
increase in prices, the Secretary OF
Commerce and Labor made answer
Under the head of relative wholesale
prices of food products in the United
| states from 1899 to 1905" he gives
some interesting figures. Beans. which
/ brought 500 in 1899, sold for s159.70
last year; home made bread. New York
market 500 and .l25.10; butter
| creamery (Elgin marketl. 500 and
/ sl23.S0: eggs. new-iaid. fancy. nearby
! 500 and 1880: wheat flour. spring
patents. 500 and, sl4S.6O: lard, prime
contract, 800 and sl63.3O: meal. corn
fine white, 500 and $3.50. and fine
| yellow, 500 and sl74.1O; meat. beef
fresh. native sides. 800 and s111.S0
/ bacon. short clear sides, 500 and
Sl5a,5O milk, fresh. 800 and $3.50
sugar, graduated. $500 and sl00.30
cotton, upland, middling, 500 and
! $500: mems cotton half hose. s10t
"a n +,
500 and slOs7o.
Corn Meal Makes showing.
The most significant showing in the
entire list exhibited is that of corr
meal. II is we'll known fact thai
one can grow his own corn and srint
MS own meal If he has a bit of lane
! and small stream. White corn lnea
4 Jumped 60 per cent. in value in ter
! years, and yellow meal went a. littlt
better, making leap OF more than Z
per cent GRADUATED sugar gainet
pul three tenihs OF per cent.
\ Inc increase in retail prices are
given The following per cents are
shown! Beef fresh roasts. 14.9 pei
chickens, 2s1 wheat flour. ga; lard
38.s; fresh mix, 1871. fresh pork. 4ol
irish potatoes, 25.5; corn meal, 3S.4
sugar, decreased 81 per cent.
IN other words, a chicken that re,
tailed for 5 in 1899. sold for s1.29 ant
fraction last year, and so on and on
some Imports of Farm Products.
The Department of Agriculture, tn
bureau Of Statistics, Victor NJ Ohm
sted, chief has issued a bulletin OF
the Imports Of Farm Products Int
the United States, 1S51-19oS"
In the review Of the period covered
ne states Tho imports of farm pro
ducts into the United States during thu
fiftN-eight years increased nearl!
nine-fold, the value in 15l being SOL,
100000 and in 1908. $4,000 ooo."
The average annual imports o.
coffee in lS51-1s55 were more thar
seven pounds per capita, and In 1901
1905 fraction over twelve pounds
The smallest per capita imports fo1
any fiye-year period we're a'75 pounds
in 1sGl-lS65."
These figures tell an interesting
story
, The sugar imports averaged seven,
q teen pounds per capita in ls5l-1So5
. and forty-aIx, pounds in 1901-1905. Thu
0 average would he twelve pounds
higher tho last period If the receipts
from Hawaii and Porto Rico were IN
; eluded with imports. as they were