Show FARM implements COST LESS TODAY it is supposed by the average farmer that he is actually getting less out of his farm today than he got from it five or ten years ago this information be low however is quite contrary to this idea and because of the information being of general importance we give it to our readers trusting it will be appreciated in 1906 it took 3 13 1 3 acres of ground planted to corn to pay for one good root foot lift sulky plow in 1916 the same plow could be purchased very much improved and costing considerable more to make for 2 12 1 2 acres of average corn crop in the U S in 1906 after paying for a new deere sulky plow with the proceeds of four acres of corn the farmer had left in 1916 four average acres of corn in the U S would buy the same plow considerably improved and leave over and above the cost these facts are notwithstanding the average yield in 1916 was bushels per acre and in 1906 the average yield was bushels per acre using the average wheat yield per acre we derive the following facts viz in 1906 it required 13 12 1 2 acres of average wheat crop in this country to to ray pay for a standard grain binder in 1016 only 9 14 1 4 ores cres of wheat in this country would be required to buy a john dee decre re binder I 1 even tho the 1916 average yield is considerably less than the 1906 average and the cost of the bind er is now much greater putting the same facts in other words in 1906 after buying a grain binder there was 1015 left from the wheat crop f from fro in 15 acres while in 1916 after paying for the binder the farmer had bad left in the U S in 1916 on nov bushels of corn were N orth worth at chicago while in 1915 bushels of corn nov 1st ast were worth at chicago or a deficit in one year of on bushels on nov 1 1916 bushels of wheat at chicago were worth one year before on the same market bushels of wheat were worth or a deficit of it matters not what kind of produce we may use it will bo be found that despite the cost of machinery wire leather etc the farmer is very much better off jan 1 1917 than he has bag been f for 0 r at it least a generation if the farmer will figure the matter over irefully cre fully he be will discover this important fact viz he is more able toda today y to buy a plow wagon or anything else he needs than he has been before for a long long time because he is getting the highest prices ever paid in this country with good chances of this condition remaining about as it is during the year 1917 |