Show FIGURES FLIMFLAM FARMER FINDING H. H H. H Charles Expresses Belief Belief Belief Be Be- lief Agriculturist Is Not Profiteer By J J. Herbert Duckworth N N. N E. E A A. A Staff Staff Correspondent NEW lEW YORK Dec 26 Somebody Somebody is juggling figures and the farmer is getting the worst of it according to H. H II li Charles president of or the Charles Advertising Service who has spent his life studying farm merchandising lems Mr Charles says that the the farmer is not a profiteer although it jt has become fashionable in some quarters to try to tomake tomake tomake make him shoulder the responsibility for the high cost of living In analyzing anal the profits derived from the farm said Mr Charles many critics of the farmer make the mistake of considering crops and livestock livestock livestock live live- stock as profits Often Orten the crop raised is considered at its market value in computing the gross income of the farmer To this is added the livestock returns In Iii this method of ot calculation the grain is figured figured figured fig fig- twice in many cases for fol th the e farmer does not sell all of his crop but feeds some of it to Ito produce the live live- I stock How flow great an injustice this does I the farmer is apparent when it is considered considered con con- I that crops to the value of four I or five billion dollars are annually fed to livestock Government figures show that the income received by the farmer during the war was not excessive The average average average aver aver- I age net labor income of ot all farmers for 1918 the latest figures available is 1 given as 1200 This represents not I only the net labor income of the farmer farm tarm- I er but that of ot his entire family |