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Show i Farmers Income for 1925 Shows Rise in Prosperity I FARM PRICE CHANCES IH 1925 PER CENT DECREASE PER CENT INCREASE m 0 5 30 ti 20 11 10 l r t 10 15 o H 30 3 S " ' !-'" r t HSCQLDCOS m ; J VEGETABLES 114 J cotton is; r" ' .1 DAIRY PRODUCTS &2J ""Zl TOBACCO 61 POaTf?Y 60 r a or omTUAi TV o WHILE farm production has not yet assumed a proper relationship to con sumption a a whole, states the Sears-Roebuck AgTlcnltaral Foundation American agriculture has been more properly balanced during the past yeai than It has for five years, and Is alowly reaching correct proportions. Only three staple farm crop groups, reports the Foundation, showed n decrease In gross farm prices for 192T) as compared with 1924. The crops In eluded were hay, cotton, com. wheat and one or two small miscellaneous crops On the other hand, the products which Increased substantially In price foi 192." over 1,524 were ca tie, hogs, shepp, fruits, yegetablesJuid mjlk utter cheese, tobacco, ponltry and egjrs. ; The American farmer Is beelnnlct to place some flfrnres on the rlht-hand Side of his ledger for the first time tn five years and renewed feeling of En 1 tlonal farm prosperity, due to Increase of farm prices. Is being reflated In th holiness and Industrial prpperlry of the entire mnnfrr. |