Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-08

hide, now, isn't getting one red cent more for himself than he used to, because he has to pay three times as much for feed and labor? He takes in 8 where he used to take in $l. Then he pays out 8 where he used 70 pay out $1. If he made dollar for him. self in the old days. after low ex- penses were paid, he makes just anout that same dollar for himself, now, af- ter high expenses are paid,
 When he wanted shoes for his fam ilv, in the old days. he had to hunt up about SIS more to put with the sl he got for his COW hide to pay for the annual seven pairs. Now he has l to hunt up S2S more to put with the g he got for his hide to get the same seven pair. Seems to that man up a tree as if this were g. rather bottom side-up, wrong-side-ou and 'tother-
 end-to way to get inordinate1y rich!
 Another instance: The Rurars edi- ter recently scraped together money | enough to buy a meal at q restaurant, running under the food administra- tion's new regulations. lie was charged 10 cents for two thin slices of bread. and 20 cents for ia large | spoonful of bread pudding-made from l bread scraps and milk" Being q han I
 rdI man figured it out that the res
 Caurant was getting something better
 than 40 cents loaf. at this time, while
 the farmer got something jess than ? l 1-2 cents for the wheat out of which
 the loaf was made. "That makes what
 we call a six-cent dollar says he.
 And so it goes: and so it is," as | MT. Manning used to say.
 1 Tt c0stS tho 1bie- f10Iiri0o Q mills, 9hOI1t | an eighth. of a cent a pound to grind l the wheat into f1our-Twenty-f five
 cents a barrel is their fixed profit for l the entire operation-It costs, perhaps
 another cent pound for tranSporta-
 tion. Ii costs the baker two cents 8 1 loaf to bake it. Now. the farmers 1-2 cents. plus the miller's 1-S cent plus the transportation cost of l cent | plus the baking cost of two cents
 makes a total of 5-8 cents for what ! the restaurant sells for 40 cents. Ap-
 parently, the farmer gets 2 1-2 cents
 as his share of the plunder and the restaurant man gets 34 1-2 cents as his share.
 Whereupon Mir. and Mrs. Consumer with broom-stick and fire shovel Ibrandishing furiously ;n the shudder- | ins air, denounce Mir Farmer for his greed and mOney-grabbing. and keeI right on going to the restaurant, OE, rats-RATS-RATS!
 Talking about wheat, I've just had IAy acre threshed out. Thirty-t two husnsls, which isn't considered halt lad in this locality where wheat owing was practically given up fiji t. years Sgo as no longer profitable considering limitations of soil and sea son. There is q small custom mil three miles away where I plan to have some of it ground. The miller teiis me that the government allows him one ' pound from each bushel for screen ings, and that. from the remaining ,! pounds, he gets 4 pounds of white flour with seventeen of middlings and bran; or 57 pounds of whole wheat ol graham flour It will, therefore, take about four and a half bushels of Wheai
 to- make a barrel Of white flour, anG
 about three bushels and half to make a barrel of whole wheat CT graham I am not required to take substitutes
 with either of the latter. With the white flour. ] must take one pound O
 substitute for every four pounds O
 four. As I am allowed to furnish my
 own substitute if 1 raise it. and as
 have a fair amount of corn ant buck wheat in my granary 1 shall tax
 along with my wheat enough corn anc 6HckWheat to make up the ratio. [ will cost me 2J cents a bushel for tn,
 grinding. As I figure it, with the gov elnment price for. such wheat as n1in'