The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-08-27
RICH MARKET ON FARMS
OF GREAT NORTHWEST
Farm Editor Shows Rise in Cash
Income and Buving Power
For This Year.

selling efforts, to yield golden har-
vests for advertisers this year, &C
cording to Charles F. COLLISION, farm
editor of the Minneapolis Tribune.
"Cash farm income ICONS upward
faster and farther this year than at
any time in six years in Minnesota
and Wisconsin, the Dakotas and Mon
tana," he broadcast over station
WTCN Tuesday (Aug. 49,.
ALREADY s41O,73S,OOO in cash has
poured into the open pockets OF the
blue jeans on the farm in the first
half-year of 1886. 1t rolls in at the
rate of $2,245,00O day since January
1. Only $50 or less than s25,000,0O0
came from the AAA. $3S5,S4S,000
from farm product sales.
"Of this vast sum, 81 per cent came
from cash sales of produce from our
prosperity quintuplets", the cow-sow-
hen-sheep-steer combination of good
farming with better livestock, now
more popular than ever in the North
west
"Crop sales brought 1890 or $685.
100000 of the total farm product cash
income.
can actual gain of $SS,000,000 cash
or 1850 was made this year over
the first half of 1895. This is brand
new money wrung from our soils by
the farmers toll, without the AAA
benefits.
"All this is to be added to the gain
Of $27.5@o made in 1885 over 1884,
whole years increase of $162,730, 900.
This rolled up the 1888 total sales to
S755, 1885, 900, and the total income to
SS26,522, 600 including AAA.
"This years gain of 1850 Is
nearly twice the percentage of the
nations increase of 1870. Minneso-
ta's gain is $3.50 or $31,327, 900. Wis
consin's is 1870 or $1S,6OO,OOO. North
Dakota's is 1870 or $14,2SO, 900. South
Dakota's is $50 or sig, O53,O0O. Mon
tana's is 25T or $4,74O,OO0.
"These gains total s8S,0O0,O00 in
cash.
"This years June was the banner
month in cash income for several
years, both in the Northwest and the
whole country. June brought into
the five northwestern states $50
600. cash in 80 days. This is an in
crease of $3O,OOO,0OO over June 1885,
or more than $50. The nations
gain was $50.
snow comes the present upward
swing of farm product prices parti-
cularly of dairy-livestock-poultry pro-
duce, to brighten up the farm income
picture still more, for the latter half
of the year
"Well informed authorities expect
this years cash income to exceed
1889, which also exceeded 1934's by
27.59o in the Northwest.
w-Hen-Sheep-Steer prices
right now are higher in exchange or
purchasing power, than most of the
goods on the merchants shelves. A
can of cream, a fat pig, eggs and poul-
try, bag of wool, steaks and chops
'on the hoof' are now worth more,
pound for pound, than the merchan-
disc they will buy.
Gall this makes the farm family good
customers again, for manufactured
goods, with ample buying power to
pay for them. Real money, itching to
be spent, now lines the pockets Of the
blue jeans and the gingham apron
Farm family wants, too long denied
are now being satisfied.
wheat and grains are no longer
the index of our prosperity even in
the great spring wheat states OF the
Northwest. North Dakota's cash in
come of $33,O00,C00 this year to July
1 is divided between crop sales OF
SIS, 7OO,O 900, and dairy-livestock-poul
try sales of $17,300,000.
Even more striking are the con.
trasts in the nations greatest dairy
ing states, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
The latter, first in buttermaking, has
already received $125, 100000 for COW
sew-hen foodstuffs this year, nearly
five tines all her crop cash, $25, 240,'
900.
wisconsin, first in dairy cows and
cheese making, rolls up $122, coo
in dairy-poultry cash in SIX months
with crop sales only $14,24O,O00. Live
stock money in the whole Northwest
this year is S1%o of all farm sales
1t was 74.4% or $562,00O,000, com
pared with $193, 100000 crop cash for
the entire year 1885.
"This whole region is far better of
this year than in the previous drouth
year 1884 In Minnesota, the August
crop forecast promises 100000 bu
shells more of oats, 100000 more OF
corn, 100000 more of wheat, $500,
900 more of barley, 100000 more OF
rye, 415,000 more of fax seed. The
potato crop however is short of 1884
in the whole Northwest.
"All five states have much larger
hay crop 1,155,0O0 tons more of wild
hay, 3,65O,O0O more of tame hay. AL
falfa hay alone is 2,240, 000 tons ahead
of 1884.
"The governments new feed survey
shows that hay supplies for the whole
country are $40 above 1884, in rela
ton to the hay-eating animals on the
farm. 1t also says, Hay yields this
year, per animal unit, exceed 1884 by
! 62%o in Minnesota, 1870 in wisconsin
$500 in North Dakota, S2% in South
Dakota, 27To in Montana.
cit also states, because of the
larger carryover of small grains in
North Dakota, the supply per animal
| is about the same, even while pro