Milford chronicle., 1919-03-14
FARM PROFITS
WILL AID LOAN
Rural Business Men Are Well
Able to Take Up Share |
Of Bonds. !

More than ever before the Amer..
can farmer finds himself in the posi-
tion of comfort and prosperity which
is his just due Lean years are for
him no longer.
Last year the average of farm
earnings broke all records. Six mil.
lion farms in 1918 produced crops
worth S12,2S0OOO,OOO. This year II
is estimated that u greater wheat
acreage than ever will be shown
Naturally, the farmer is making he
most of his opportunities, and with
guaranteed wheat prices and higher
prices for everything he grows. the
outlook for him is most encouraging.
And Europe will furnish market
/ doubtless for all he can grow, in
cluding his fat hogs at $50 and his
steers at $3.50 per.
II would ne interesting, If possible.
TO assemble comparative statements
of the farmers bank accounts now
and five years ago. and, incidentally,
the list of mortgages that have been
cancelled And it would be more in
teresting perhaps to have a state
ment Of the Liberty Bonds now in the
hands Of these tillers of the soil.
For it has been charged that the
farmer as buyer OF Liberty Bonds
has cut a sorry figure. Which may
have been the case in spots, but not
generally.
md H1an 60.
an opportunity to prove that he is
not without loyalty as well developed
as any mans. For another loan is
almost in sight. loan that will draw
heavily upon us all.
Because Of his price guarantee Of
S22G Il bushel, Uncle Sam stands to
lose from 80 10 Is cents upon every
bushel of wheat harvested next sea-
son. Having made this guarantee 10
the farmer, he will make it good. That
is Uncle Sans way
But what is Mr.. Farmer going To
do for Uncle Sam in the next Liberty
Loan?
In every Liberty Loan to date the
farmer as class, has bought less
bonds than men in other prosperous
classes. He has been able mean
time to get more sugar, and coal, and
everything else upon which the gov
ernment put a restriction, than others
have
Of course, there were exceptions to
his rule There were whole com
whole counties, and in
few instances, whole States, where
he farmer showed signal patriotism.
Among those States were Pennsylva-
lia, New Jersey and Delaware.
The big question now, when he
stands TO cash in at a % per cent
premium upon his wheat crop, is what
$ he going to do next Liberty Loan
lrive?
And it interests every one Of us,
or in the fRality we will pay the
ILL., The chances are -four prices
1ill still keep right where they are.
Europe is buying wheat right now
rom the big accumulations of the
iSt two or three years in Argentine
nd Australia at something like SI.50
bushel
Without the government guarantee
ne American farmer would be get
ng no more than this price now.
And if he is to save his face. If he
to retain the respect Of the Ameri-
an public, if he is to continue TO be
agarded as the backbone Of the ma
on, he must do his part in this
eXi bond issue.
Some Liberty Loan officials are sug,
Asting that the farmer should buy
500 bond for each 100 bushels OF
heat that he sells to the govern
ent He has made the profit and
iould have no hesitancy in taking
high grade security in payment for
le difference between w'hat the gov
gets and what he gets for hia
heat.