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Show Btarhlnrs tn Agrleultnee. In 1H05 It required on the average four hours nnd 3! minutes of the time of a laborer to do the ploughing, harrowing, har-rowing, cultivating, etc., thut went to the producing of a bushel of Indian coin, and the price of that luborer win nearly HO cents on the average. Today To-day machines have changed conditions. Ttielr use hsa redueed lha necessary time of the lalairer to uliout 31 mtn-utea mtn-utea and the cost or It to about It'1? rents. Iho wages are. however, much better now than In 1 ''.'.. In 1MID the time required lo produce each bush.. I of wheat was over three hours, tt la now iil'oul in minutes; the roM has been reduced ttotn over 17 cents tl) ahoiit 3 cciitii. Il.f.ire the Itilioilii.-tloti Itilioilii.-tloti of machines the time devoted to producing each ton or bay wus nbuiii il.'.'u hours; It la now ll'fe hours. In Im.u the corieHpondlnit cunt was over f t: It la now nliout II 2!i. These itid many other coinp iti.ioua of the sort are to be found In a report by Mr. Unions n Inu. I by the Department nf Agriculture In Washington. |