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Show ! even as late as lift y years ao. ; j Shad were verv cheap, costing I nnlv 4 cents each. Owing, to the I plentiful supply of game tanned ; skins were low in price. A deer-j deer-j skin fetched about $1.17, while a , bearskin was worth from $1 to .f'2. ! Milk st dd for 2 cents a quart and ' butter for 13 cents a pound. Apples 1 were from 1'. to 25 cents a bushel, ! but by IS j.j they had readied oO cents. Farm wages were about one-third one-third of what they are now, ranging rang-ing from 33 cents to 50 cents a day. From $4 to $5 a month was the usual compensation of well-grown well-grown lads. One hundred years ago the remuneration of a boy for doing ''chores," such as cutting wood and foddering horses, for one year, was ordinarily $5. The use of a pair of oxen for a day cost 25 cents, while the use of a cow for one year cost $3. It cost GO cents to make a pair of shoes. The price of a pair of moccasins was 27 cents. Board was only $1 a week. FIFTY YEARS AGO. An Authentic Report of Prices anu Wages of Long Ago. A Washington paper says thill Unr I)ri:irtiiipnt of Agriculture nl-nUt to pulii.'--li a n itiU-rrf-tiny report, re-port, comparing the t:n.t of living i-arly in this ecnUiry with wluit it is now. It cxhihits vividlv ihv contrast bclwcon tliu jiovcrty of primitive agriculture mul the pro f'rcsf? in civilization and u-ealth resulting from Iii'h devclopmenl uf all lhe possibilities of land nnd hihfr in rural and industrial arts mid iudustrii's. The small wnes paid in those days are as surpris i:: as the huv priei's'of eomniodi-t.irs eomniodi-t.irs of all sort. (i:mm was almndant earlv in the century and then-fore cheap. Venison co.-t mily :) ci-nts a pound, r.rar meat was very MihUv higher. Piteous were in e.xtraordinarv ! alnindaiH'i , seliin;: at a little more I than a cent a pit-re. Khh-rly people , l'"l'lemhr.- U. Jli-hts of Murks of. pieuiis which darkened Lhe skies' |