Show r HIGH PRICES FOR FOOD Davenport of the University if d Illinois believes that the era of ch chomp ap food in the United States State Sta i t Ia al almost l mot most a thing thine of the past pact and his hia view ha been accepted in many quarters quarter 1 Population la Is overtaking production and the tide of Immigration shows no 0 of cessation Processor Pr Davenport says t Any way wa you can figure it we are near the end of cheap food In tide this th coun coon countr coonc c tr try which menu means that the population is III J beginning to overtake the food supply r I We 1 ran car increase Inc production yet man manfold manfold mans I fold by means meana of better methods method more moreT T intensive practice and the requisition of undeveloped areas but the best beat land landi i has baa been developed its Ita fertility has bas j been more or 0 lose less depleted and some iome of k it has baa already been abandoned i Yet prices on the farms farina have not kept t pace with tho cost coat of capital labor and andr andi r i other ither elements element of expense For Jor the de dc dep decade p cade ade ending end in with ISM 1 the average ave farm faim i c of o wheat was waa MM 51 cents centa a bushel buhel HI and for that ending with 1507 it was 1 63 5 and there Has ws been but a very slight increase e In yield 1 Curiously enough the British people popIe 1 I who depend upon the world at large lar e for formost formost formost most of their foodstuffs do not pay an ani i i I exorbitant price for tor their wheat and andI I i flour The average prices of wheat In inI j t I England during durl the past quarter of a aj j century aho shows s that there were only three years In Lii which the yearly price of ot wheat was above a 1 dollar a bushel buehL i For the put peat ten te years year the yearly aver average avera age ae a e was wa as WI low as a TS cents and as a high as a 5 MU II cents ISM 1 But for Cor the J greater part of that period It was waa under r I I M 90 cents a bushel The cheapest wheat was WWI bought bou ht in those years of agricultural i tural Unal depression following 1855 1 when hen I j J I for a year or two the Ute British public I 1 paid lens leIs than 70 19 rents a bushel bullet f p Our British cousins do not share In Professor Davenports views view regarding Ie i kar foal food so ne far as 8 they are con concerned coni I If the wheat raised In this i country is 15 for tor home consumption tion they look to inada Conada Argentina Argentin Australia and India to supply the de do deficiency dei 3 i and keep their money invested at the best possible poble rate of Interest all allover alli I l i over Oer the world Owing to the isis ease with which combinations are formed and andin f in In tn this country the people j are raying paying top prices for br fA r everything food foo clothing and und machinery especially If Professor Davenports deductions are areti re ti tru uc we shall soon be face to face with witha a situation demanding a radical change In III ii the meantime Great Britain win will con continue coni continue i to buy American Am goods poda and pro products L 1 homo hom ducts cheaper than they are si sold at |