| Show I fARMER ANOTA NOT NOTI I A BLOATED PLUTOCRAT Washington July 27 Farming Farming ls is not the most profitable business In Inthe inthe the world railroad press agents to the contrary notwithstanding accordIng accord accord- Ing lug to a bulletin of the department of agriculture For the first time in the tho history of farming in tho the United States Starell the department department department de de- de- de hag hab managed to get accurate accurate ate data on the subject It reports that the average income of the tho AmerIcan Amerlean Amer Amer- lean Ican farmer is per year It is reasonable to infer says the d depart depart- part part- ment that at least half halt of the farm families in this country have even smaller Incomes Individual farmers here and there have incomes lar larger or than this average but the facts indicate that on the whole the incomes of the tho farmers in inthis inthis inthis this country even when we include as a part of the Incomes those thin things s consumed on the tho farm where they are produced is 1 certainly not more than sufficient to pa pay 5 b per cent ou on the tho investment and ordinary farm wages wage for the labor they it Is In probably considerably less lesK than this |
