Show cost or of production from a farmers point of view the position that some of the writers writer a take that a farmer can do nearly near ay as well now as he could when prices for farm produce were higher say in 1870 on account of the supplies he has to buy being lower Is very absurd to say the least in order to show the difference between what a farmer could make in 1870 and now I 1 will give a few figures as to the cost and profit of raising eighty acres of corn then and now it will require the services of one man besides the farmer and as tor for the amount of work a man could do about the same work then as now as we had the riding breaking plow and double diamond corn plow and double shovel corn plow in use then we will count the farmers wages ages w the game as the hired mans the average price of corn in 1870 was about 40 cents a bushel land then was worth about 45 an acre or 3 tor for rent it Is now held at i bout about 75 an acre or tor for rent cost of raising eighty acres of corn in 1870 to rent or interest on investment to two men for six months at 25 a month aw 00 to board of said men and farmers fanner wife SO to keep hep of t teams iid and wear i ill and d tear on an harness and machinery ISO IN to eighty acres of corn at fifty bushels an acre at 40 cents 1600 net profit W 0 cost of raising eighty acres of corn in 1895 to rent or interest on investment to two men six months at SU IS a month to board of two men and farmers wife 62 to keep of teams and wear and tear on harness and machinery total sm to eighty acres of corn at 13 cecii cent a bushel TM net loss ills fus now how is a man going goin 9 to buy anything at any price at this rate which is in a poor jr way of stating matters just as they are A good many of us fool farmers anarchists think the tiza tion of silver Is partly the cause causa of this state of things H LANDIN auburn ni |