Norwich bulletin., 1920-12-31
THE FARMER GETS HIT FIRST

 CVriuln Specially for The Builetin.) Doubtless many of you noticed the an- neuucenent from the national department of agriculture a few days ago of the value of farm crons produced in this country the past season.
 -Acc0rdirg % this final estimate for the yslr t9e0. blsed on returns representing about eH ger cent of the total value of aG farm cr1rs as indicated by prices paid to flruers the entire farm output of the Cntcl states wss worth S9.l4s,5ls'o0o. This i, tremendous sum; over nine hrtol lrafs Each billion equals a tnnasard millions. IL. takes a tremen- tols stretch of the imagination to enable any one ot us to comprehend the size of sra1 a single million. ] never saw any one yut who could. so to speak, visual tc- a billion without resorting to some tick CT comparison. For instance, saw if stated t1e other day on the authority of fouaCne ir the treasury department at MrrhlEtau that a-, million one dollar tr- piled 0n top of each other, would mako r -.acf SIS feet high. If that be correct. then 8 stack of billion one dol- Jar hi.s uou.d reach up 31S.0Qo feet This is about n times higher than the highest mountain .u the world.
 A dollar b.l Is about the thinnest thing l-ada for everyday use-always except in- a rlofteers excuse for prohteering. That si s tie very thinnest thing in the uaiyrrse
 And g-t @ billion dollar bills would make lI rEss each as no as Mount Llellsr Az tle value of our farm crops w.s more than nine billions. this would he eQual to g9 piles each as high as that 4o1rIas Hualayan peak.
 Take another suggestion: A dollar bill "a three inches w.ue-One-fourth of a loot f hIiicn dollar bills, laid down on. taq grouui side by side would, there fore Teach 25000O o00 feet. or almost twice around tlc earth. The value of our ltrm crops came to over nine billions nine umes as far as that Imagine the riohcls or dollar bills laid down around me ciule. side hy side, iu an east-and- Ntf. Erection. and end to end in 8 north Hul-scuth direction, each side and each cpd Itted so closely as entirely 10 cover tfe .rou1i ond you'd have a path of such bills feet wide around Ghe earth. afifr alL there isn't much use trying Co uaEe plain Co others or trying to com rreflf1 for one's self such immense sums as nrc named by the word billion We farmers, especially. are so accustomed % rlcrruHs. our urodts by cents and half cents tizt even a thousand dollars seems tn ue f t-r.tll.. whale of a sum. Never the'ess aulr-s. us We managed to raise nu. hlIcu dollars worth of crops th' asrl l.-.. lt mnk-- 8 mouth-fllns uf. ilda-d. lt iS somethiag to men tor ru-'-. ot course and IF mos rf.c f-fec- tone. at the next meeting -t l.- e,cra's tack-roon cluo.
 Er tcforr you do SO. and glance around n-h th- too -roud consciousness Of hay
 a Hs-. aF- -u t.-- l-r-- .0undiuE total. please talk, iuio caa -,rat.on one other little fact -.s' Ic-.e clear hy the departments re per. to cr'Y va'ucs While we farmer produced oa -Ie whole. the Liggest crop la rtr- u l321 greater in the aggre . E-t' fHr 'foft Cf tEe preceding year a1A while their tarm value is reported a uc Enormous total of over nine billioi i1.rF. tHa' same total is s4.S39.476.o0 LFSs --an tHs farm value of the smalle 11 o- i9il--alm9st five billion dollar less.
 turtr- t7 uiIs sum our imagined var st CT dollar hii's we T find that we'v ct tu e.. ruhCns less around tn oNeiHaa rs would have had f cur tni a-1f crops hai sold at last years valud ft0fe actually logt in comparison wit ifl' saezs ol dollar bills. each a Iirl tf- highest mountain on the glob, Net uc o.tcr dnv when had to call mechanic to do a certain job for me h eiargci noe SIP for exactly the same io ra.ca le did lost year for S10. Asked th rl1f1n. De exclaimed that be had to pa
 helper @ more than he did la Tanners incomes. rer bUshel or DC auad e. production. have fallen off moi nll la Fer cent in comparison with thos M.ts' nrcczdug year. At the same tin Ear tfnt violent dissatisfaction is b W ezprcs~d by factory operatives b
 t % tlc posted announcements of
 cent r-luc.icn iu their wages. J i % tur ccr'ala miners organiz -rl a-. eet.1ucing gtin further a. tanc Nlr d' ] hcar of any sugge arn c- -c ucicas in ihe pay of railro: utu.
 T. has been sa.d several times by pc t'e who ought io .-now better that wag 1f crtI1res ore aiways tte first thin c drcn I'ser.'usiv doubt whether tn
 rter true. Cordially H is not true -Ne u-.-ant case. Three times out '01r s tr1 farmer who gets the fir uoc.s1u- hi1w as hy has this time.
 enr't speak fer western farmers. h Nse ! frow nothing of their situatic From tht sounds which I hear comii lter ttc h.Iis on that side. l suspect tn arg speaking for themselves, and aca-iv --ort-s tones. too. But 1t is ce
 u that. Tor eastern farmers, the ye
 s1s with O slam which hasn't be frlfad for many -ears. Tn hundre
 ~i thnyklnds of cases they find thel -e.res compelled Co dispose of their cro i prices less than the mere cost of pr lucnr thcm. or sec them go to waste -leir harig. Their incomes are cut alrnc nothing hy the fall in prices whi
 cs tlcm before it was manifest an -re C.sa on earth They raised whac
 biz crops. at greatly increased cost
 mseircs Now they can obtain only (
 ael prices, and must make up { -.lcit as best they can.
 The farmers of the country get near i've billion dollars less for their produ, i-.s year than they got for a smaller V, l-1e or like products last year. And tn n't make fvo billion dollars, nor an ffre hear lt on last years crops Wh .Heg did make is more than wiped out l.s ve1rs losses.
 One neirhbor of mine who has a ba recount and is drawing on 1t already .aet h.s monthly bills. tells me he h