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Show o WHY FARM BOYS LEAVE HOME One dollar's worth of farm products at tho present tlmo will purchuse only 82 por cent as much food, GZ per cent as much cloth and clothing, 58 por cent as much fuel, 83 percent as much molnls and metal products, 57 por cent as much lumber and building materials, 68 per cent as much chemicals and drugs, and 42 por cent ns much houso furnishings as It would havo purchased In l'JIH. Or, In ex change for procossed fqods tho farmers farm-ers labor at a discount of 18 per cent. In exchnngo for cloth and clothing tho farmer's labor Is at a discount of 38 por cent. In uxchnngo for fuel tho farmor's labor Is at a discount of 42 per. cent. In exchnngo for metals and metal products tho farmer's labor Is at a discount of 17 per cent. In exchnngo ex-chnngo for lumber and building mnterluls tho farmor's labor Is at n discount of 43 per cent. In exchngo for chumlcnlB and drugs tho former's labor Ih at n discount of 112 por cent. In exchnngo for houso furnishings tho farmer's labor Is at a discount of 58 por cent. And In ex-changa ex-changa for tho wolghod avcrago of all commodities, In which his own ovor-doflated ovor-doflated products aro Included, tho farmer's labor Is at a discount of 25 per cont. Those comparisons aro worked out from tho Indox numbers of wholosalo pricos for April, 1921, just issuod by tho United Statos Ilurcau of Labor Statistics. Thoy show that tho farmer farm-er Is still at a dlsadvantngo In ox-changing ox-changing tho products of his labor for tho products of tno forost, mlno or factory. " Farm products havo declined C3.3 por cont from tho maximum, moro than any other commodity, and a full 10 por cent mora than all commodities. commodit-ies. Futhermoro, tho figures aro all basod on wholosalo prices. Tho farmer farm-er pays tho frolght on his products fbofora thoy reach a wholosalo market and ho also pays tho frolght on products pro-ducts of othor Industries which he buys. Ho buys nt retail, not at wholosalo, wholo-salo, and rotnll prices havo not cotno down as much as wholesrlo price. |