Show I 1 totals atals high ts but averages low T THE HE figures given out by the department of agriculture of 0 the farm crops tor me vie current year show tremendous totals meaning in the mass a very great sum of 0 money tho the probable sale prices are re not given so that wo e can not divide it by tho number of farms and learn the average per farm farin however ever the average meld beld per acre ia is far too mall on oil e everything potatoes the only being large when compared to the average of a score of bears eier ago but small when compared with the present pre sent day lay meld beld of well 4 ell cultivated potato fields the corn com crop ia is some lv chels being half a billion more than last year tar era o im bushels als to the ole acre chuh 11 would have linie made p poor return at 60 50 cents a bushel buthel which was vas the pre prevailing ailing pr co not many bears enra ago at approximately double trat price price now it gives a tremendous total for that single crop without making any ind individual bidual farmer rich likewise with wheat a total crop of bushels the average of i inter wheat sheat the chief cli b cef crop is but bushels per acre even at 1 50 a bushel thia this would mean but 19 05 an acre which ia is much below the cost of Imo production if this a the national a average it fo follows llois that many the thousands of arcs 3 v fielded much less than 19 each when oats barley r 01 etc arc are analyzed the fact is revealed that not a single crop could possibly pay on the average some acreage aith h large yields jeldi i no doubt pave pas well but far more than half the total represents a loss instead jf f a profit the fanner gets less than mechanics waged wages for all his work and fils hi iii investment estment besides att at we A e wonder u why by farm boys flock to tae industrial centers that much of the poor condition of the majority of the farmers fa is is due to ahti ir own lack of business busi s ability intelligent management mane gement of their fill fains rs aud and poor cultivation supplemented by inadequate marketing is quite 4 truc true yet it is also that the national welfare requires abat the the farming industry 3 wil ie 1 larger returns to those engaged in it congress will be called upon to wirt artle we with his this problem at a the coming session 1 A per perfumery fulner expert ts s had her sense of smell insured for 0 0 o if she ever went to sonic soule of the places where we ha e been s she e want her policy canceled alien a man b seeks distraction it is an effort to get ay from lii milly ulf lf not from others jf 11 lie were N ere fit to live with he would be able to stay alone with himself for a tune tillie it is now said that s rubber can ean be mado from corn wheat ond and other grains graing the furi ers have lave long waited to find something clastic elastic in their uain U ain to help stretch the price i little t i now thet surgeons have gone one into the dimpling business we are nt a losa loss chii wb n a girl is ii called a dimpled dailing to know where ty t 9 look for the dimples 16 B 1 i 1 W tain now we are given to understand that the new liew prohibition en soreen bent offiel of ficula 1 ts ge el the okeh of the ena tora ind josi poss ihl of et the lie representatives bafo 5 they can be appointed afi q aure ure thai that politics would would win i S AT V i |