Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-11-16
COUNTY GRAIN
SHOW SUCCESS
A GOOD. EXHIBIT OF FARM
PRODUCTS-WORTH
WHILE TALKS

The Marathon County Grain and
Corn show was held last week Thurs
day and Friday at Castle han under
the direction CT Frank G. Swoboda,
county. agricultural agent. The ex-
hibits We're excellent and indicated
the splendid varieties of grain and ag-
ricultural products that are being
raised, in Marathon county The at
tendance was good at the various ses-
sions and instructive addresses were
given.
On Thursday morning, J. w. Hicks,
of the Wisconsin Potato Growers as
ISOLATION, spoke on potato diseases,
describing the appearance of the scab,
the black spot, and ether diseases to
which spuds are susceptible. The aft
ernoon. session Thursday was ad-
dressed by Prof. E. J. Delwiche, of
the Ashland Experimental Farm,
Prof Mushbach, and Geo. Briggs, who
spoke on Soy Beans" Fridays pro
gram was especially worth while
Prof Musbach and F. G. Swoboda
L. Russell of the Agricultural col
lege, University Of Wisconsin, spoke.
''Never was there a time when
there was more chance for discOur-
agement than at the present moment"
said Dean Russell. 1--WE should give
attention to the defiation to see what
causes it and whether it is perma-
nent or if it can be remedied. We
know this to be true-expand and
you have to contract. 1t is easier to
blow things up than to blow them
down. If it were possible for every
thing to develop simultaneously and
drop simultaneously, your pound of
milk, and pound of butter would be
worth just as much when things were
/ at a~drop as when they were at the
highest point. But that is where the
difficulty comes. Deflation does moi
come simultaneously over the whole
community at the same time. This
year in certain places it Vas hit the
farmer mighy hard, hit him in the
last sixty days t0 a hard degree. The
fellow in the city has been making
more money than the farmer, this we
all know is true at the present time
Wheat on 1916 Basis
Il want to give you just few fig
ures to show the extent of deflation
| wish the city people could be here
to hear these. Wheat and other grains
are on a 1916 basis. Those farmers
that went into wool growing and
sheep raising have seen the .depres-
sion in that line. The depreciation
of the products in the hands of the
farmers this year compared with
year ago are II per cent of the en-
tire value of his output. Last spring
prices were 20 to Is per cent higher
than a year ago; In August the price
OF what dropped, in September they
were s per cent lower, and in October
were down to IA per cent Has it gone
on i'll an equal degree with the
commodities purchased? The whole
saler too has suffered The manufac-
turer is unable to sell the products in
any large amount, considering what
the output was q year ago. Retail
prices are higher than the products
that the farmer has to sell. How
long 1t is going to be that the price
will be SO high, no one can tell But
within the next six months we will
see a substantial decrease in retail
prices. Now is the time for us to hook
at causes concerned III the presence
of defiatiOn. You have got to act to
the limit of your capacity, not merely
as producer but in the capacity as
and distributors, and you
must also lTave knowledge of world
and of what is going on in
the world at large. so that you can.
judge for yourself whether it is wise
for you to store or sell This def1a.
ton is inevitable, whethere we will or
not, we must inevitably look forward
to defiatiOn which comes about thru
war. The next we must consider is the
amount of crops. We have had bum
per crops in the United States this
year. The wheat crop this year is
% million bushels larger than the av-
eraSe crop. Corn crop is 500 million
bushels more than the pre-war aver
age, and more than twice as much
rye has been raised this last year.
as in the preceding year. That is
the fundamental factor Whenever
YOU have more than the average yield
of crops, chances are the prices are
going to be lower. The margin be-
tween suffering and starvation is too
small and a little more on one side
tips the scale and it goes one way or
the Other
Two Have Agents
Agriculture develops along hui
and social lines. Mara
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