American Fork citizen. [volume] (American Fork, Utah) 1912-1979, 1920-01-31


Compare clothes prices,
the great American money croI
to haul fifty bushels of corn to
money to pay for s25 suit OF clothcr
Now he can get $50 suit and a $40.
pair of shoes for his fifty bushels Of
corn.
1T may be that he doesn't haul
corn to market but feeds II to his
hogs. On December Both 1914 he
had TO sell four hundred pounds Of
hogs at the top price of the Chicago
market to get the money to pay for
q S25 suit and q SO hat. On December
3Oth 1919. II he sold four hundred
pounds of hogs at the top price of the
Chicago market he came within 50
OF receiving the money to buy $50
suit and there have been long periods
in the last two years when he would
have got $50 to 500 for his four hum
dred pounds of hogs
III. on December 3Oth 1914, he
marketed n thousand pound corn-tcd
steer at the top price OF the Chicago
market he got $3.50 for It. II he
marketed It on December 30th, 1919,
for the top price. he got si95 for it.,
money enough to buy pretty nice
outfit of clothes even at present pri-
ces.
wheat Is raised in very wide sec
lions OF the country. Official govern
ment reports tell us that the average
farm value OF wheat on November 1.
1914, was nc bushel. The farmer
who sold fifty bushels OF 1t got $3.50,
or Just about enough to buy a s25 suit,
n So pair OF shoes, a SO hat. two or
three good shirts. and then some
handkerchiefs. The farm value Of
wheat on November LIST, 1919. was
s2.l3 bushel and the farmer who
sold fifty bushels at his home station
received $l0G.50, or enough to buy
him n fine $50 suit and big thick
overcoat. IL n farmer happens to live
in the Northwest and to. have held
his wheat until now he can get some.
where near SO bushel for grain OF
good quality.
while we are talking about the
Northwest. II may he well to mention
the farmer who raises FLAX seed. The
government tells us that on the frs
of November. 1914. he received al
average OF sl.1S7 per bushel at IN,
farm stations for his seed. For TWEEN
ty-fiye bushels he got just about en-
ough money for his S25 suit and hat
II he marketed his flax seed on No
vember LIST. 1919, he got on an aver
age OF $3,S2 bushel at the HON
station. For twenty-five bushels h
got $95.50-enough to pay for hi
$50 suit and leave $3.50 for hal
shoes and furnishings for the winter
you may think the Northwest
particularly favored territory but let
look at the South where they rails
cotton. We all remember how,
the fall of 1914 the Buy a bale {
cotton" campaign was on to save III
producer from ruin
"The price of cotton In the fall
1914 was down TO 6 cents pound fc
a time. but that's hardly u fair con
parison. Let's 30 back to Nov. 1, l9l
when the average farm price was I.
pound. The farmer then had
market 1893 pounds OF cotton to ~
for n s25 suit On Nov. l, 1919. u
average farm price was 36.5c a pour
and the grower could pay for a 81
suit by selling only l65 pounds
cotton.
THE average price paid to the ia
mer all over the United States (,
butter on Novmber LIST. 1914, vi
26.4c n pound. while on the same d.
in 1919 he got sec pound for II, F,
his eggs he got 25.3c dozen on n
vember list. 1914, while he got SAC
dozen for them in 1919,
THE sheep raiser who produc
wool for his money crop natural
has quite q keen interest in the pri
OF clothes. The government tells
that the average sheep raiser all oy
the United States got l5,5c a poul
for his wool at the country static
on November LIST, 1913. He had
sell l6l pounds to get money to p
for s25 suit OF clothes, On Mover
Der 1st. 1919, the average price pa
10 the producers for wool was So
a pound He only had to sell llS
FUNDS OF wool to get enough mon
10 buy 500 suit of clothes
ION November LIST, 1914, while
Europe was at war and we were n
the farmer received on an average
52.Sc a bushel for his potatoes. FIJI
bushels left him a very narrow mi
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