Show eastern farmers find satisfactory conditions T E moore of the moore motor company Ls is back home following a two weeks vacation and business trip to niagara falls and points in new York yorktee the auto mileage covered a distance of approximately approximate ly miles and covered the visita visiting ng of fourteen states some of the interesting te highlights high lights of his trip we take the liberty of reproducing producing re for the information of our many readers e rs the labor conditions in the east are generally speaking bad for example at joliet ill he found the locomotive works being dismantled torn down these shops aloni foert erly gave employment to men at good wages who now find themselves out of employment and many of their families in dire need in addition to the bad labor conditions dit ions business conditions are very unsatisfactory merchants in practically all lines discouraged and sale of business in many cases not nor possible at break even price the one encouraging side of the trip from a business standpoint was found among the farmers in the east their crops generally 0 speaking aking were satisfactory satis facto ry they find their condition the best in wry very many years year s they are buying farm machinery and apparently have money he illustrates the latter claim by an instance he came in contact with in the state of ohio it was decided that the crying need of the farm locality in question was the erection of a new church the outlay of the new edifice was placed at A committee was sent out to raise the money and in four days time in cash was contributed tri and put in the bank tor for its erection he says this is probably accounted for by farm values in that county land during the high tide was per acre now it is this means a substantial decrease in taxes prices on grain corn etc in the east are low but all in all there seems to be a better feeling among the farm owners and but little dissatisfaction crops from omaha west not so good complaining much of drouth plenty of early grass small grain crops up to the usual standard but the later crops and grass were not satisfactory |