Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1912-11-29
DISPUTES FIGURES.
Correspondent Disagrees with
Article of Last Week.
Morris. MINI.
Nov. 25. 1912.
Editor of Tribune,
Morris. MINI.
Dear Sir

Dear Sir
AS farmer / write you this on
seeing your piece entitled. ''Chang-
ing Conditions. / see part of it is
copied from real estate adv. That
may be true or it may not be. AS
l nave quite a good deal to do with
those gentlemen / find they are most
all alike and their word is just as
good as horse Jockeys for they are
all in the same class. What would
like to have you print in your paper
is place where the farmer can get
such price for his produce that he
can buy such an amount of stuff that
you claim he can. Now Just take
your own price list for farm produce
and take your three column piece and
figure. Go to the elevator and find
out the price of grain, remember rs
per cent of all grain is not No. l not
hardly No. 2. Then 60 to the grocery
get your price on butter and potatoes,
then find out what they charge for
the 70 lbs. of coffee. sugar, nails,
salt per barrel. Go to the lumber
yard and ask the price of Oak lumber
and shingles then set down and figure
up and see what good mathematician
the editor of the News is or what a
story teller he is. Please print the
out come of your knowledge that you
gain so the readers of your paper will
not lay such a deal up to you. Back
to the farm is Earped on by the city
agitators but let them try for year
and there would be rush back to the
city think by those guys.
1t is good deal like a clerk said
back IN little town in Michigan
called Charlotte. The head clerk in
Baughman S dry goods store told my
father he had bought 80 acres of
land and was going to quit the store
and 60 farming He did not see why
a man could not make 80 acres pay
for 80 more every 3 years. Father
lsays maybe you can Mr. Irish. In
! just year Mr.. Irish was back in the
! store again and when father7saw bin
he said. "what is the matter with
the farm Mr.. Irish? The reply was
farming is very uncertain very much
so.'.'' When poor city laborer reads
such piece all he can 60 by is the
price he pays in the big city. Maybe
he has house and lot, goes to some
real estate man tells him the cash
price on his house, wants to trade for
80. acres and the land man gets the
farm, he thinks will suit him, raises
the price to get house free and makes
the deal. The poor man does not find
out until too late. I've seen the deal
turned good many times and all
from the deceitful lust of men for
moEev. do not claim there is not
some money in farming but l know
there is some money in working in
the city. l have been at both. One
thing is different on the farm you
save along until you get your crop
then your money comes in a bunch
and you invest in something and then
save it instead of spending it. After
you get started on the figures you
J might send this to your city friend
> with the result. It might help him
) to be better hand at figures.
Respectfully yours
A Subscriber.
| (The cores Londent misses the prin.
cipal point of the article published
J last week. The writer showed by
citing government reports on prices
that there has been steady rise ir
the purchasing power of farm products.
The cause has been the steady increase
of population which has been much
faster than the increase of production.
4 So long as greater and greater de.
t mands are being made on the supply
: of food products, prices must continue
. to advance, and the prospects for con.
tinued advancing prices is more prom.
ising for the farming industry thar
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