Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-01-24 | Page 6 | How Prices Increased in Last 25 Years

if How Flow Prices I Increased in Last 25 l' l Years ears fib 8 national Into News 1 Service r Ic f I Portage VI WIs VIE E. E. E. E R. R I t I who has n engaged aged In farming farming- in inthis I this timis locality for Cor the time past quarter of ot a century h has s' s made mado a be between between between be- be I tween prices prevalent in and those I of or 1917 Heres Here's what he found Ho Hogs s sIn in 1892 were wen 90 now w 16 16 cattle now 10 rye now no 1 85 wheat heat now O potatoes lOc now 1 51 butter Hc now SOc Oc eggs eggs- Sc Ec now non cord corll cordwood cordwood wood fiO 0 now j 50 bran 16 now HO 40 ha hay bay 5 5 now 20 and amid oats l c now 7 c. c The farmer says says says' these are on only 1 a afew afew few tew of oC the tIle nd while agriculturists agriculturists are ae obtaining decidedly better prices than twenty five years cars ago ao they are compelled to lo pa nay more for or what the they bu buy