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Show Farmers Are Prosperous IN WJUTING on the prosperity of thArner-Ican thArner-Ican farmer Arthur Brisbane, tho highest salaried newspaper editor in llio United Stales, says: "The farmer in all ages has been the under dog. the man kept down and the man who has fed all tho others and who has got In return barely enough to feed and clothe himself. "Tho fanner has always been tho last in the world's history lo share In better conditions. condi-tions. Hut his turn in America appears to have como. "The farmer Is twice as rich to-day as he ever was in tho history of America. "The farmer, though you may not know It, buys half of all the automobiles mado In America, or more than half! 'The farmer now gets for his hogs, alive and squealing on the hoof. Just doublo the amount that ho was very glad to get a few years ago. "He get3 moro for his wheat, for his corn, his eggs, his butter and milk. "And, besides getting bigger prices, the farmer, thanks to scientific agriculture, gets more out of each ae, "Vou understand of course that every dollar dol-lar added to the price the farmer receives for food produced means a dollar added to the cost of living. "Tho middleman simply adds to tho price he charges you every Increase in tho price paid tho farmer. "It would lc impossible to say Just how much the income of the farmers has Increased In-creased during the past years, but the Fum Is enormous, running Into tho thousands of millions. j |
