The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-04-09
IOWA FARMERS AND THE DEMO.
CRATIC TARIFF.
Market Quotations Show Prices of
Farm Products Greater Than
Under Republican Rule.

| Inc iowa 1aTuoT enjoys UellcI
prices for his corn, wheat, cattle,
hogs and eggs under the democratic
tariff that recently went into effect
than he enjoyed under the Payne
Aldrich tariff which preceded it.
This is the answer which the daily
market quotations for the month of
February make to the lying state
ments of republican newspapers that
Democratic Free Trade" is bringing
ruin to the farmers by reason of the
competition of Canada and the Ar
gentine Republic.
! The daily quotations on corn for
February 1914 under the demo-
cratic tariff average IS cents a bu-
shell higher than the quotations for
the corresponding month in 1913
under the republican protective
tariff
The daily quotations on wheat av-
erage about cents per bushel high
err in February 1914 under the
democratic tariff than they av-
eraged in the same month of 1913
under the republican tariff law.
The daily quotations on hogs for
February 1914 average Is cents per
hundred weight higher than those
of the corresponding month in the
preceding year.
The daily quotations on cattle av-
erage IS cents higher per hundred
weight in February 1914 over the
prices quoted on the corresponding
dates of 1913.
The daily quotations on eggs for
February 1914 average about 8
cents a dozen higher than the quo
tations for the corresponding dates
in 1913.
This advance in prices means mil
lions of dollars of added value to the
products of Iowa farms and the rev.
enues of Iowa farmers. Take the
one little item of eggs alone. The
annual production of eggs in Iowa is
estimated by the state department
of agriculture at 97,549,731 dozens.
An increase of cents per dozen
means that this annual production
will sell for $S,O00,OOO more money.
The advance of 13 cents in the price
of corn means an increase many
times greater than that from the
advance in eggs.
Here Are The Proofs.
From the files of the Daily Trade
Bulletin, in the Office of J. r. Whit
ney & Co., the Times has taken the
quotations of prices for the above
named commodities on the Chicago
Board of Trade for the dates speci-
fled To save time and space the
quotations only for the last market
day of the week have been taken,
but the quotations for the other
days Of the week would afford the
same contrast.
February 1913 came in on Satur-
day The dates for which quotations
are given are therefore February LIST,
Sth, 18th, and 21st. There was no
session of the board of trade on Sat
urday, February %, public holt
day. The Saturdays of 1914 most
nearly corresponding to these We're
January 31st, February It'll, 14th
and Dist, These are the dates for
which the following quotations were
reported in the Daily Trade Bulle-
tin and we invite doubters to consult
the files themselves, for verification
or refutation of the figures given by
us. The corn prices quoted are the
cash prices for No. 8 mixed on track
Chicago, which is selected as a stand
ara SIduS. Ally OIucl 6louC AAi6AI
be chosen but the lesson taught by the
quotations would be the same. The
prices given on wheat are for No.
spring. The prices quoted on hogs
are the lowest and the highest, in
Guiding both light and heavy grades,
but excluding pigs" The quota
tons on cattle are for steers me-
dunn to choice