The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-07-22
FARM CASH RISE
REvIvES TRADE
Tribune Farm Editor Shows
N. w. Crop Gains Bring
Good Times


crops, cash farm income rolls up a
total of 1856, 37S,OOO to June 1, 1887,
already in farmers blue jeans in the
Northwest-Minnes Wisconsin, the
Dakotas and Montana.
This pours in at the rate of s2,426,
600 day. 1t is gain of 35 per cent
or S95,2S2,000 over 1935-of more
than 10 per cent or $i3,310,000 over
1896 to June /, according to the fed.
eral farm income Aport for May,
1887.
This is what kec our factory
wheels spin again, our retail trade
zoom upward, both in city and coun-
try Stores says Charles F. COLLISION,
the Minneapolis Tribunes farm edi
tor. He is broadcasting the facts
widely to business groups and con-
ventions in an address on Prosperity
Ahead.
Again our famous Cow-Sow-Hen-
Steer-Sheep combination of good farm
ing with better livestock, proves itself
the backbone of our recovery. These
prosperity quintuplets' give our far
mers this year 1851, $4,000 already for
their sales of dairy-livestock-p poultry
produce. This is S47 per cent of all
sales, which total $30S, 697 600, includ-
ing s47,155,0G0 of crops.
1.-THE AAA soil conservation pay.
&c 10 he
livestock cash amounts to As times
all the AAA cash, and SIS times all
the crop cash.
Wheat and grain crops, important
as they may be, are no longer the IN
dex of farm buying power in the old
time golden grain belt. Old King
Wheat has abdicated to the female of
the species-the Cow, the Sow, and
the Little Red Hen"
Grain farmers who used to be sub
ject to all the violent fluctuations of
wheat prices, up and down, have
learned to stabilize their industry in
the feed lots and pastures, at the milk
pail, and in their cooperative cream.
cries and cheese factories
None of the dairy-livestock-p poultry
prices fiuctuate as violently as those
of raw material crops-wheat, grains,
corn and cotton.
Minnesota again leads the North
west this year in total cash farm in.
come, s13S,666,OO 900. This is s14,O24,.
600 more than last year-a gain of
$32,S13,000 or 800 per cent over 1885
to June l. Minnesota's dairy-livestock-
poultry sales brought s1O5,352,OOO,
crop sales s20,515, 900, total sales $125-
S67 ,000-or nearly ten times the AAA
cash of s12,799,0O0 Butter and eggs,
milk and pork. steaks and chops and
fried chicken are the states great
wealth producers, not wheat any more.
Same is true in Wisconsin. The
AAA payments are only s7,707, 900
this season-crop sales alone are
nearly twice that or $13,929,000. Blu,
dairy-livestock-poultry cash is Sis.
100000 for five months, and the crop
livestock sales combined bring s129,-
100000
"All this for the products of Wis
consin farmers own soil and toll.
Wisconsin leads all of North America
In dairy cows. dairy-products value,
and in factory-cheese making.
Minnesota is second in cows, and
leads all the continent in golden
creamery butter-making, largely in
farmers own cooperative creameries.
In all regions where cow-paths are
numerous, and farmers have learned
that it is time to milk, we find bust
ness reviving today.
North Dakota's crops bring 1885,.
900 this year, livestock sales are S10,.
$4,000, total sales s17,3S9,000. Total
income including AAA cash, is 1884,
343,000-a gain of So per cent or $780,
079 over 1885, or s2,177OOO over 1886.
South Dakota livestock this year
brings s1S,954,00O, crops s2,511.OOO,
total sales s21,465,O00 Total income,
including AAA cash, is s34,745, GOO, a
gain of 1913 per cent or 1891 900 over
1935-$10,709,0 900 over 1886.
'In all this five-state area the May
1897 sales of dairy-livestock- poultry
products are higher this year than In
May 1885 and 1886, as follows:
Dairy-Livestock-P Poultry Sales