The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1921-07-14

The following is taken from "a
paragraph Of letter from the
Horse Association of America:
Canadian farmers are using IL
horse teams double discing 81 IL
acres per day per man; are plow-
ing 8 acres per day per man, and
are seeding as much as 80 acres
per day per man, using three grain
drills hitched together, drawn by
16 mules" Some of our farmers
who are still wasting manpower
to save horsepower should get a
good lesson firm the above. We
need more knowledge and use Of
labor saving implements.
Please read carefully and anal
we the following Farmers Rate
of Exchange as given to congress
by Senator Capper of Kansas who
is an ardent supporter of the
Farm Bureau:
"a farmer feeds a hog Z IL
bushels of corn to make 100
pounds of pork, but he pays l IL
bushels of corn for l pound of
BACON.
"For 5 pounds of wool, enough
to make a. genuine all-wool suit,
a farmer is now glad to get 81, but
to buy such suit of clohtes costs
him 500 pounds of wool.
Last year good pair of shoes
could be bought with one cow
hide. Today it takes five cow
hides to get the shoes.
ITO buy his wife pair of $40
shoes a Kansas farmer recently
sold Is bushels of corn for 77.50
and a big cowhide for 80. Then
he had to pay SO cents to boot to
close the transaction.
eff on parity with the pres
ent price of corn, Mr.. Rockefeller
would sell gasoline 8 cents a gal
Ion instead of "a, the Coal Trust
would sell tom of coal for So
instead of S13, the clothier a $50
suit of clothes for SIS, the shoe
dealer a $40 shoe for So, the hat
ter a SIS hat for 81, and the Wash
ington market man would sell ba-
con at pre-war prices instead of
at postwar prices, then American
agriculture would not today be in
need of the credit pulmotor. Corn
should be and is worth more if
these things are worth what is
asked for them.
Last year when corn was $3.50
bushel farmer coud get 5 gal
Ions of gasoline for single BUSH
ell. Today, at the farm price, that
bushel of corn only buys a little
less than 2 gallons of gasoline.
Last year 6 bushels of corn
would buy ton of soft coal. To-
day that ton of coal csts 35 BUSH
els of corn.
Last year 40 bushels of corn
would purchase $50 suit of
clothes. Today it would take 125
bushels of corn to buy that suit.
Yet had clothing been reduced in
price proportionately with corn,
$50 suits of clothes would not
take SO bushels.
rLast year a bushel of corn
would buy 3 pounds of coffee. To-
day it will buy only little more
than / pound.
Last year 2 IL bushels of corn
would purchase a 48-pound sack
of -four. Today it takes IL BUSH
els.
"And SO it goes, up and down
the line. Whether prices rise or
fall, the farmer gets the worst OF
it. What is it going to profit us
to keep knocking the farmer
down? How are we going to be
clothed and fed when we finally
have knocked him out completely?
"The biggest problem, Mr.. Pres
ident, that confronts the congress
is to devise plan by which
through fair marketing conditions
AN extinction of proftering, a low
'ering f freight rates, and reha-
Utilization of our foreign and do
nestle markets the producer may
receive a fair return without the
consumer being brutally victimiz-
ed by the constituencies purveyor
of bread, meat, and other food
products. We should see, also,
that in future adequate credit is
provided for farmers through
longtime and short-time loans,
adapted fairly and practically to
the peculiar conditions of the far
ming business, to afford farmers
the same credit accommodations
now afforded other lines Of BUSH
ness and that they may MT be COM
PEELED to dump their products on
a glutted or demoralized market"
S. v. BURKS, County Agent.
NYnUurrst