Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-02-06 | Page 6 | In Account with Mars

IN ACCOUNT WITH MARS. T.con M. E. tabrook, chif of the fd-c-y bureau of crop estimates, ha been doing a little figuring to determine just, what has l.rrn the effect of the European war on the American farmer, farm-er, lie credits the war with having been rc-ponsihie for increases in 11ih pri'-e (i? tho leading crops as follows: V.Tir-at il 80,ono,oon j Corn 130.000,000 Oats 50,000,000 j Total sr.e,o,noo,ono I fie charges the war with a lois in tbo value of the cotton crop amounting to .f-rttO.IKiOXH). This makes tho Amor-! Amor-! i'-au f:rrner u not gainer of Ijj.jiro.v i ir::i'cly .3O,00O,0OO ns n result of the i '-r.-trnnirjinary conditions brought, about ' bv ,be grejit conflict on the other ci,n-tin- i.l. I !ut if wc ;ikr onlv the export fig-; fig-; i j j- . . 4nr- "lio'-in;; is ij-it so ;i t rr.cr i ve. Til.. ;;,.i.r il. . .'I I ' I " ..I il.. I .,""' I ' "' fwheat, corn and oats has been ap-j ap-j proximately $100,000,000. On the other hand, the loss of the value of the cot-! cot-! ton crop, or that portion of it normally I exported, has been approximately ?C0,-000,000, ?C0,-000,000, making tbe actual loss on our exports $120,000,000. In other words, the farmer in the grain raising sections has been highly-prosperous, highly-prosperous, but it has been largely at the expense of the southern cotton growers and of the American consumer.