Show P FARM tt DI S COST LESS LESS It is supposed by the average farmer that heels heel's actually y fe getting t ng less out of his farm today th than n he got it 11 five or r ten years ten years ago This information below however is contrary t to this Id idea 4 and nd b because b be- cause i of the information being of at general importance we give it to our readers trusting it will be be ed In 1906 1906 it took 3 3 1 1 acres Of r f ground planted to corn corn to to pay pay forone forone for one gooc good Foot Foot Lift Sulky plow plo In 1916 the same plow could be pur pur- chased very much improved an and costing considerable ble more to make or 2 2 1 acres of average corn cro croin crop cropIn In the U. U S. S In Iii 19 1906 6 after paying or a New Deere Sulky plow with Uie he proceeds of four acres res of corn carll he die farmer had left In 1916 tour four our average acres of corn in th tho thu U. U the tho same same plow eon con 3 o. o would buy by improved and I over and above the cost These facts acts are notwithstanding the average average yield in 1916 Was vas bushels els per acre an and in 1906 the Ule average yield was v 30 bushels per acre Using the average wheat yield per acre we ve derive erive the f following ll wing facts viz In 1906 it required 12 2 1 acres acre of average wheat crop in this this' country coun try to pay for a standard grain bind bind- er or In 1916 1916 only 9 4 1 acres of wheat in this country would be required required required re re- to buy a John Deere Deere binder even though the 1916 av average rage yield is considerably less les than the 1906 average and the cost of the binder binderIs Is now much greater Putt Putting ng the same same facts in other words In 1906 after fter buying a grain binder there le was 1015 left from the wheat t cro crop from 15 acres while in 1916 after paying for the binder the farmer h had d 75 left In the tho U. U S. S in 1916 on November 1st bushels of corn were were worth i at Chicago while In In 1915 bushels bushe s of corn November 1st were worth at Chicago or a deficit in one one year yeu of on On November 1 1916 lOa bushels bushels' of at wheat at Chicago were worth One year before on the same same market bushels ls of wheat were worth or a deficit ot of It matters matters not what kind of 1 we may may use use it will be found foun that despite the cost of machinery wire leather etc the farmer Is very much better o ort off January ry 1 1917 7 than he has been for at least a 1 gen gen- ration If the farmer will figure figuro the he matter over carefully he le will discover dis discover cover over cover this important f fact ct viz He Ismore Is Ismore Ismore more able today to buy a plow plo Wagon or anything else elEe he needs than he has been before r for a long long time be because ause he is getting the highest prices ever paid laid in this country country country coun coun- try with good chances 0 of or this condition con con- remaining about as it is durIng during dur dur- ing Lug the year 1917 I h I |