Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-29
CLOTHINCPROVED
REALLY CHEAPER
Same Products VIII Buy
Moore Than In 1914,
Records Show

@EaIring the past six months l have
3a4zax 20 make several trips to the
ahayEzg centers in the West, purchas-
mig Gkothing for our trade" Eugene
Ra1Ise.vs of the w. D. Bailey, Co., said
liz an interview Thursday. "At the
laRzglSezG arters of Hart Schaffner &
Aaxzxe 1 have met men from every
zsaz&4Asn of the country, and the ques-
.t5saa Of prices is always brought up
-8ay discussion. Most people seem to
lta1lIzlE that clothes prices are high.
NssSEzred in the number of dollars
It G=..7sas to purchase suit, they are.
bat measured in the prices of things
7WsaIeal the producer has to sell, or in
tina vEages paid for service performed,
st3aerF are no higher than they were be-
asxra She war. In many instances, as
n 1nAEter of fact, they are not so high.
Compare clothes prices, for in
sstzRre with that of corn, one of the
sgr=a. American money crops. In 1914
sEaM GARNER had to haul fifty bushels
ar es9rn to market in order to get the
zmsaaszy to pay for a $25 suit of clothes.
Nora ile can get a $50 suit and a $40
PAIR ot shoes for his fifty bushels of
gar
And Hogs, Too.
Az may be that he doesn't haul
snrr TO market, but feeds it to his
Aoga On December 30th, 1914, he
haG 70 sell four hundred pounds of
hu&a at the top price of the Chicago
EnzSEsC to get the money to pay for
So zHit and So hat. On December
,3Jl1- 1919, if he sold four hundred
pOIHds Of hogs at the top price of the
Caaeago market he came within SO
as receiving the money for a $50
EE1t- and there have been long periods 1
6a 1G4e last two years when he would
asave got from $50 to $92 for his
four hundred pounds of hogs.
III, on December Both, 1914, he {
alaEhSeted thousand pound corn-fed I
skeEx at the top price of the Chicago
usaI1aet he got $91.50 for it. If he
marketed it on December 30th, 1919, {
4aA- 11e top price, he got SI95 for it
EsE0zzey enough to buy pretty nice {
0aI~lR1 OF clothes, even at present i
RElassz- l
Wheat Brings More, Too. &
Wheat is raised in very wide sec {
SE0sas OF Che country. OnicIal govern t
lH1fAlt reports tell US that the average {
Esd15xzs gyGlae OF wheat on November {
ASA 1914, was ne a bushel. The
Ea2-ner VINO sold fifty bushels of 1t
aEAt So8.5U, or just ABOUT enough to
bLIg $40 suit, a IS PAIR OF shoes, a
81 nat, Two or three good shirts, and
&4aa.u some handkerchlets. The farm
wlaE2e of wheat on November l, 1919,
aQzs $2.13 a bushel an the farmer
gRIaga sold fifty bushels at his home
STATION received $1Q6.50, OF enough
sG huy him fine $50 suit and a big
gs3iTaaalr overcoat. If farmer happens
SE 1--we in the Northwest and to have
hak9 bis wheat nutil now he can get
somewhere near So bushel for grain
aSf good qualuity
Not To Mention Flaxseed.
While we are talking about the
Nadthwest, it may be well to mention
Size farmer who raises flaxseed. The
government tells US that on the first
M November, 1914, he received an
average of $1.187 per bushel at the
-EE;Ax2n stations for his seed. For
twenty-five bushels he got just about
aasszs1agh money for his $25 suit and a
KAT If he marketed his faxseed on
November l, 1919, he got on an aver
sVg.fs of 1882 a bushel at the home
station. For twenty-five bushels he
.Eu4, $95.50-enough to pay for his
aSHtB suit and leave $3.50 for hat,
eziaopzs and furnishings for the winter.
You may think the Northwest is
particularly favored territory but