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Show t - . , O ' . - 7 ' t " t r ...... r ' ' ' I I i Era cfllijii Prices Still FurlLcr Lcrccs cd Ly Strife, Causl:j Values to Soar. Uon. They are uriqgr tb poor men. theunempIoyed ot the great cities to go Into the country and locate on farms. Farmers of the Middle West ar preparing prepar-ing to put In the greatest acreage of corn ever known and the acreage of wheat now planted will break all records. rec-ords. The prices paid farm laborers will be much higher. The city man who goes Into the country and rents or purchases a small farm can. If he knows anything tfbout farming, make himself - Independent. Independ-ent. . ..... XI027EY PLENTIFUL. The prosperity of the farmer will affect af-fect every line of trade and Industry. Traveling salesmen running out of Chicago Chi-cago report that, whereas, four months ago, money was tight and the farmers were not buying, they now seem to have plenty of money and are spending it freely. The agricultural Implement men axe predicting the greatest sales in the history of the Industry. The West is independent ef the East ia money matters mat-ters and. with mortgages wiped out, the farmers are preparing to purchase Improved Im-proved machinery to harvest and market mar-ket their crops rapidly. There is one Other feature which is hard to calculate that is the increase in value of farm lands which inevitably will result from the increase la value of crops. . OGO"O055GQ 1 PRES EiiT PRICES AHD AVERAGE FIGURES. -i - . 0 P The following table, based on present prices, shows what the farmers who sell today are realizing on their wheat, oats and corn above what ). they customarily receive at this time of year, and it is easy to see how much greater the profit will be If the predictions of experts are verified: . . Average Price. Present Predicted. Present Gain. Wheat .............. W.64 U.10 ., $1.60 $ 70,672,40 Corn 42 . 53 . 65 2S3.S11.822 Oats ..... .37 . 47 .60 11,717,993 E' 1 UKCLE SAM'S TITLE: FEEDER OF NATIONS. I 0 I ' 9. v . ! . fei . Feeder of Nations, that is Uncle Sam's title. -The United States pro- duced over one-fifth of the world's wheat, practically all its corn, one- third of its oats and over one-tenth of its barley. The table shows the figures: 1 . Crop of "World. Crop of U. S. Wheat 3,124,422.000 670,063,000 ffi Corn - ...2,327,894,00O 2,523,648,313 Oats ...... .......... 3,561,041,000 1,171,799,214 Barley 1477.656.000 178.995.023 Bye 1,678,714,000 33,630,592 . i90i. , n902. S INCREASE IN VALUES MEANS MILLIONS. . ' ' ;: " V . Study this table and mark the value of farm products of the United States. From this one may gather a faint idea of what the increase in prices means to the farmer. An increase of only 1 per cent on the value of the whole would mean an increase of 3160,355,628. Number. Value. Domestic animals - 215,822.238 S2.981.722.945 Live stock 1.678.018,890 Fowls ' 250,681.673 85,794,996 Corn, bushels 2,523,648,312 750.894,912 Wheat, .bushels 670,063,000 870,212,863 Oats, bushels 1,171,799,375 198,972,533 Barley , . . . 178,795,890 60,446,674 Miscellaneous products, including milk, vegeta- bles, cotton, cottonseed, rice, tobacco, buck- wheat, cane, etc ; 10.000,000,000 ' ii::c::::: cf Uic in 7teat L;:: ta Ilcstililta One TLcusani riIIIl3H Dal l:rs Will Go Into Pockets Pock-ets cf American Far-. Far-. ner. . ITore Than ? 2,000,000,000 wlU be I pouied Into th-e pockets of the people : cf the United Etates because of the war between Eussla and Japan. Of the 12,000,000,000, over half trill go Into the pockets of the farmer. ,TH3 TiTATT TZimTD THE YLQVT j . In the Iliddle "West now stands as ! DICTATOR to RUSSIA and to JAP AIT. The meat he raised, the . corn he plpaghed, the cattle he owns are needed in the Far East, and when the victor comes to flgnre up the war Indemnity, he will find that to the American farmer has gone the "bulk of .expense. FABKEB CHIEF GAINER. Those between the farmer and the market in the Far East will profit. The war between Russia and Japan will aid railways, will pour fortunes into the pockets of some speculators and drag it out of the pockets of others, but the farmer whose crib are full of corn and whose bins are full of wheat and oats the farmer whom since 1897-has been ?arding up his grain and waiting for . . Allar wheat" to become a. reality, la wie real proflter by the war. For once the price has soared with the granaries of the farmer fulL He sees new dresses for the wife, new horses for the boys, pianos and education for the girls and some store tobacco instead of hillside navy for himself. WTDESPBXAD PBOSPEMTY. When the farmer prospers the country coun-try prospers, for the farmer spends his money. Every . roar, of a great gun knocking down some, fortress in Manchuria Man-churia shatters at the same time the mortgage on some farm. If the war lasts two years American farmers will . . be moving toward the capitalistic class. because they saw the pending shortage and tried to get in first. It is fair to assume that one-third at least of the profit will go to. the farmer. These high prices win enable the farmers to hold future crops. The market mar-ket experts declare prices will go higher and higher. Russia,' America's great rival in the wheat market, will need all her wheat at home. War experts declare the war will laih over at least one harvest. That will mean fortunes for the farmer. If the war lasts two years the farmers will be wealthy. They will realise over a dollar dol-lar in cash for every bushel of wheat marketed, they will get from 60 to 60 cents for corn and the prices of hogs and cattle will be practically unprecedented. unprece-dented. The -(packers' trust will reap fortunes, but the farmer will get more nearly his dues than ever bexore In the American's opinion. era 07 man fbices. The high prices of cotton In the last Six months enriched the South, pouring millions of dollars into the coffers of the planters. Texas, with a short crop, added 850.000.000 to the planters' account. ac-count. The war will keep up cotton prices, or send them higher than Sully dreamed of sending them. The great rice fields of Texas and the South, profiting pro-fiting by the stoppage of rice culture in Japan and part of China, will yield fortunes. for-tunes. The interest of the United States in the Japanese war, from a commercial standpoint, can be Judged by the proportion pro-portion of cereals the United 8tates fur-Dishes fur-Dishes the world. Add to this fact that Russia until the war ends will be entirely en-tirely out of the markets of the world as a producer of wheat, flour, oats and barley thereby leaving the United States clear of a formidable rival, and the commercial significance of the 'war Is clear. 7ASHEBS "WIDEAWAKE. The far reaching; effects of the war may be seen by a few Instances. A farmer near Laporte, Ind., was offered 814 more for a beech tree than he expected, ex-pected, the purchaser saying that the demand for wooden shoe pegs for repairing re-pairing boots of Russian and Japanese solders had caused the raise. Michigan bean farmers, knowing that the Russians Rus-sians feed ' their troops on rations of bean sausage are holding their bean crops, refusing 5 cents a bushel over prevailing prices. Sociologists are interested In the sltu- ASX 70S THE DESK RET CIOAB And you will get the best.' A. Bernstein, maker, 64 Market st. 'Phone 1331-X. The first effect of the war. of course, is felt in grain and provisions. The farmers realized such excellent profits on last year's crops that a large proportion propor-tion of them were not forced by need of ready money to sell all they produced. They are now coming into the market with cash wheat and cash corn realising realis-ing directly on their grains the benefit of war time prices. There is so corner and the speculators are paying directly to the farmer. . ; VALUES NOT FICTITIOUS. Wheat at 31.10 now. means that wheat Is worth 31-10 in the economy of the nations, na-tions, not that someone has stored up j vast quantities, and is trying to unload at fictitious values. True the speculators have aided In lifting the prices, but only |