Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-01-13
Natural Fertility of the Soil and
Favorable Climate Go for
Naught.
EUROPEANS METHODS BEST
Americans Get Less Than IA
Bushels of Wheat per Acre
While the English Har.
vest 80.

Hoston Jan. 12-"We must increase
PRODUCTION per acre by more intellgen,
methods or we must race the relentless
certain day when VIC shalt not produce
food enough to supply our own neces.
Fities," said President William c.
Erown of the New York Central railroad
In an address tonight before the New
England Railroad club. The wages OF
labor, he declared. must continue to ac-
vance in fair ratio with the steady in
crease in the cost of living. In addition
to President Brown. Gov. Eben S.
Draper was guest and speaker.
Mr.. Brown said in part:
The most portentous cloud discernible
upon the political or economic horizon
nj this time IS the steady. relentless
Increase in prices of everything that goes
To make up the cost of living
with a succession of bountiful har-
vests. the price of grai>- mas steadily ad-
Vahced until the prices OF laDS-ls1S show
Increases over those of 1895 as follows =:
Torn. an increase of ILL., per cent; oats
81 per cent; wheat 595 per cent; pota.
toes 'o.5 per cent hay 497 per cent
DIRECT BEARING ON GOLD.
With q normal incwase and no
disease to deplete our herds values
nave increased marvelousy. Not
withstanding the advent Of the auto
mobile. horses and mules show an in
crease in value Of more than 100 per
rent. The products Of the forest make
an equally marvellous showing. An
.hracite and bitnmnous coal have ad-
RANGED 20 and AZ per cent. respect
'vely; lard, 113 per cent; pork. SO per
cent. and tallow. 80 per cent. Dur
ing this time. farm land in all parts
of the West and middle West has
fully doubled In value
Economists agree that there is a
direct relation between tho quantity
of gold. which is the basis of value.
and the general industrial condition.
The gold production of the world for
tie year 1896 was approximately
Se02.o51. 900 For 1909 It was approx
inatcly s4450OO,ooo an increase of
une hundred and twenty per cent.
The coai mined last year has been
hulned. but the gold produced year after
year piles up. and as 1t acc,rmulates It
lakes more gold to buy bushe of wheat
or any of the other necessities of life.
For this reason the pay of labor has
steadily advanced and must continue to
advance In some fair ratio with the in
crease in tho cost of things that labor
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cost Of living, more nsistently. more
powerfully, and with sinister sgnif-
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fertilization and c,,,,t,.o,io, .,r 60.
producc an animal ,,aId 40 ,o,s ,,,an :.
bushels of whoa, n., ,cro nc oor,naroa
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