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Show 8 CENT EGGS I ONCE EXPENSIVE I That Was 50 Years Ago, Says Farmer-Author in Reminiscences By ALEXANDER HERMAN. NEW i"ORK. Jan. 14. Eggs 8 cents ri il"2cn Butter 10 cents a pound Shoes $1 25 a pair fM And the prices were considered jH high W The place was Iowa Th time, halt a century ago. But now "Times surely have changed " If-r her Quick, noted writer and authority au-thority on farming, was speaking He . through the pioneer period nid "It was Ihe days of small things, but mighty forces The beautiful pr'ilrle W was turned Into a prosy, self-satlsf led, nfl wealthy agricultural ntat. LAND VALlTs HIGH. '"When I was a boy, an Iowa farm JH hand working for two or threo year 2S .i month oijid h.ie enough to buy his own farm. Land values wero low. He could get a place for 12 an Vow the ninn who buys a farm is i :nli"j under debt Values arc high. He u charge, $300 an acre and usually usu-ally owes $200. fM This condition of high values and the necessity of the poorer farmer to rent his land have created the hard i mil the agricultural population -v. ijg Is able to Kct sonic surplus wealth to flS buy with it will bo in hard strait!-. How to ijci this surplus'" I) 1 Mr Quick shrugged his should TAX LAND VALUES, "Anv one Reeking to ameliorate the if condition of the people both on tho farm and In the city " he saM, f thoughtfully, "should turn his nt- Bjji tentlon to the shifting of taxes from jj IhiniCM that we '-at and wear to lanl alues which are. essentially com- L mon property in order that the Vl- IK clous tendency to Increase these val- rfVv i lies might be checked "The Chicago. Burlington .v Quincy railroad which runs through StH Iowa, pays s remarkablv high dlvl- y ? idend This In Itself Is another influ- h' fence that Is making times hard for j; 1 'the people of tho state. 'C , 'The crest of the present crisis is 1" MUST CONTINUE, "Some farmers nre broke They R" Will have to start all over again F Where a man owns his fnrm and N Is not too heavily In debt, he 1b not hard up. He may be poor, but he felfc can go on "He must go on or his rattle will W die and his property b wasted. - J ' The farmer who goes In for di- W fl vrrslfled fanning dairying is best ifafl But I am glad that I lived most of mv days in the oid time " hhH Mr Quick gave up his membership , on the federal farm loan board to I write of Iowa. The first novel of :t trilogy will be published soon It is i called "Vandemark's Folly." rB |