Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 19, 1921, Page 7

‘NORWICH ~ BULLETIN,” FRIDAY,” AUGUST 19, 1921° FARM ERS TALK T OVERLOADING THE FARM-CAMEL (Written Specially For The Bulletin.) It ts in the west, where farming s relatively a mere important industry than in New England, that the drop i farm prices of the past year has cut deepast and hurt worst, For instance, a report on crop con- ditions {n Ohio, made by agents of the Farm Bureau, shows that the farmers of that biz agricultural state are go- ing to do mighty well if they breaX even, this seaton. ~ A good many have been seiling beef steer after feeding them winter. They have generally made a not a profit, on the transaction. In northwestern Ohio, where oats are a favorite crop, the county agent of Lu- cas county, (Toledo), reports that the crori will be just about sufficient to p-y’ taxes on the land harvested, shows t sury the whole state t the goods which farmers buy gars shoes, groce ete—are now averaging 25 per than they did a little over a year ago, whila the crops farmers have have dropped 52 per cent. In the same ttme.. That is, the drop has been than twice as great, proportion- in the farmer's possible income as It has, been in his necessary outgo. It #% rather customary for a certain sort of people es to make ligh es when he is be- y al- the farmer's outc “That ng thought it was on were being gouged. city consumers who Moved. no doubt, by knowledze of this att the New York has sent a staff corres- west to port will prove interesting to practical producing farmers, and ought to have an interest, also, for city-dwelling con- sumer}; For illustration, take some statistics about prices of various essential com- modities. The peak of high prices was reached in 1920. In that year the price of building materials rose 241 per cent. above the 1913 low-priced level, The price of clothing rose 2. per ecnt. The price of groceries rose 187 per cent. and the price of farm products rose 146 Per cent. This, mind you, Was when things were at their hghest, when prices were roost- ing on the very summit of the loftlest peak visible, Of the four main items, the price-advance in farm products wa the lowest, Sinee then, we have had a what the, economic- experts ra tion."” ear of “defla Prices have been falling in all directions, pretty near. ~Lumber, for in- stance, is only 102 per cent. above 1 level as compared with 241 per cent., a year ago.- Groceries are only 32 per)| cent. above their lowest level, as com- pared with 187 per cent, a Year ago. C is only 80 per cent. above low as compared w year ago, And farm June, when just 13 per 256 per cent, a products are, or were, last the figures were gathered, cent, above low leve.; the nearest to it of any one of the four, You had to pay $2.02 for the same lumber, $1.32 for the same groceries, $1.80 for the same clothes, and $1.13 for the same farm products you could have got for a dellar in 1913, Perhaps figures in percenfages are a trifie confusing to some. As one wo- man -said, the other day: “Of course farmers, like other folks, are having to pay more for hoes and shirts ani help than they used to. But they’re petting more for potatoes and corn and wheat, BOYS! wiNsza0 GIRLS! 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INFORMATION COUPON BARSTOW HILL & CO, INC. 6 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass, Witheut obligating me inany way, please send cir Ashland Cotton Co. 8% Preferred Stock, Adress, cular regarding I guess one hand about wastes the other” T couldn't make her appreci- ate, by ‘any auotation of percentages, that the farmer was at,the bottom of tne heap, and being crushed worse ghan any others, 'There is, however, one way of statiag the facts which ought to be evmprehen- sible and clear te even the duliest in- tellect. Take the corn-grower of the great corn belt, as an example He gets his inceme by raising and salling cerf. ‘With that income he had to buy, we'il ay a pair of shoes, a suit of cioines, and a harrow. He sells his corn for the best price he can get and buys his sup- plies as cheap as he can. H>ow much corn must he sell to buy those things? Well, in 1914 he could have bought a pair of shoes with seven bushels of his corn. Now, he has te bring in st fourteen bushels of corn to buy simiiar shoes. In 1914 he could have bought a telera- ble suit of working clothes with twenty- eight bushels of corn. Now, an identi. cal suit requires him te bring in sixty bushels of corn. In 1914 he could have bought a disk harrow for seventy-five bushels of corn. Now, it costs him 140 bushels. If he has wanted a fine all-wool suit he could have paid for it, before ihe war, with 150 peunds of commcn coarse weol. Now, it would take 500 pounds of the samd wool to buy a similar suit. ‘The same proportions seem to hoia in almost all sorts of commodities. Why, the wheat grower now has to tura over almost a bushel more of wheat.tc pay for a sack of fleur than he had to in 1914, Den't touu at the same time that, while the farmer has fo turn over more corn and more wheat and more wor payment for the saume things, it also costs him more to produce a bushel or wheat and corn and a pound of wool than it did in 1914, He has to give a larger quantity of more costly products —more bushels or more pounds, every bushel or pound of Which has-cost him more to raise. The Evening Post’s representative, after talking things over with all sorts and conditions of med in the six states of Minnesota, Wiscansin, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, remarks: “When the farmer considers that just a8 much hard work in the fie'ds frem Sun-up to sun-down gees into predue- ing his crops as before the war, that farm labor is still much more expensive than it was, and that other eiements combine to raise his costs in securing his ‘market product, hs has a tendency to] feel bitter over his present disadvantagw ‘When the @ity man considers the same facts, he will understand betier the farmer's state of mind and the need for sympathetic co-operation in fifding]rac- tical ways to bring about an economie’ balance.” Which isn't putting it any too strong, as T think you'll agree: It isn’t Decause the farmer has to sell his stuff cheap that he kicks. Most any farmer would rather sel his pro- ducts cheap—if he could, in the same markets, buy requirements just as cheap. When he can sell a bushel of pota- toes for fifty cents and ‘buy a work shirt for fifty. cents, he's just as well off as when he gets a dollar for the tubers and has to pay a dollar for the shirt. It's when he can get but 65 cents for the potatoes, and has to pay a dollar and a half for the shirt that he begins to wonder who's stacked the cards against him, He has no objection to low prices, m low prices govern the goods he has to buy as wel as those he has to seli. Hut he does object to Ditching pennies with anybody whose rule is “Heads 1 win: tails you loser” Wouldn't you? Or anybody else? ; Seo as I can find out, farmers do not minimiza the hard times in the cities and manufacturing centers, They are mot inclined to assume t every- body else is reposing on 3 of lilies, But they do pot see made to suffer great: T tion, than any other business. They do not understand why market profitéers should be enabled to knock them down to a beggarly teen per cent. apove pre-war levels, while the same profiteers are still raking in to a hun- dred and fifty levels on cl consider farm goose also is gander. The Evening Post's representative talked with men of various occupations hould be n_propor- sauce for tl in his trip. -He mentions leaders of farm organizations, exp t a ultural colleges, state officials, editors of agri- cultural papers, dealers in farm pro- ducts, bankers, millers, business men and Their somes im- a great many individual farmers. views were often different wnd times conflicting. But the general® pression left on his m was that 1 be lucky keep their fan i greens and flowers. | add®d greatly to the appearance of there are “considerable numbers” who won't be-ableto do‘even that much. They won't be able to pay interest on mert- gages, nor even taxes. Thie, 'in the face of bountiful har- vests and excellent crep prospects. It isn't Nature which has been cruel but man-made ‘market conditions which are responsible. What shall it prefit the California veg- etable grower to have an extra yield of unusually fine lettuce, if the Tailroad freizht to his market cost more than th lettuce sells for? What shall it profit the western farm- er to have whackling crops of wheat anu corn and oats it he cdn't sell them for encugh to more than pay the taxzes on the land which grew them? Of what avail to the New England farmer are the early and later rains, the ripening suns, the heats, the promiss of early and abungant producs tiom, if he has to pay more for fertiliz- er and seeds and labor than all his Dbarnfuls of harvest will bring him back? You heard, didn’t you, about the Arab who kept heaping up a load of forage on his camel till he put on just a leetle too much, and the last straw broke the camel’s back? There are other camels outside of Arabia, and other peopke wWho are over- loading them. Moreover, I don’t think many of them have their backbones in- sured against fracture. THE FARMER. MONTVILLE The annual lawn social of the Ladies’ Ald society of the M. E. church was held Wednesday afternoon and evening. August 17, on the lawn barween the homes of J, Y. Miller and Albert Gess- ner. The grounds were decorated with red and white umbrellas, booths, jack-6*- lanter electric lights, teats, ev The beautiful fis Ralph H. Melcer, the es brought by M various booths and tables. During the afternoon and evening fan- cy articles, ice cream, lemonade, cake, ple, cookies and doughnuts were for sale, A feature for the children was a flower and vegetable garden made by Mrs. Wallace Potter from which e chi dren could grab for flowers, wi-ermel- lons, lettuce and squash. At 530 sup- per was served and eonsisted of meatioaf succotash, salads, bread, rolls, vickles, ice cream, cake and coffee, At 8 o'elock a pleasing entertainment wgs given inside a tent by the Deciso Club Double Quartette of Norwich, with Prof. Hugh Kinder, atcompanist. The following programme was given: March of the President, Ameriean Mel: Dreamy Alabama, chorus, Forget Nots, Decisco Ciub- Doyble - Quantett Heart of Gold, Ireme Ca! m V cl- Their Fragrance Spill, Oscar Hsiarich Love Sends a Little Gin of Roses, Caar- lotte Fowler; Summer Night, chorus by Decisco club’; The Garden of the Gols, George Stanton; * Valley of Laughter, Elinore Donovan; I Fear No Foe, Frank Steinke ; Silent, Oh, Moyle, caorus; Un= tl, Vigla Grover; 'Tis Morn, chorus; a play, Beautiful Plecé of Patch, char- acters: Grandmother, Marion Hewitt; daughter,” Alta Hewitt; granddaughter, Marion Ficher; son, Mr. Dunn. The Duzenberny family: Daughter, Rema Ungerer; her father, Robert French; = husband, Charles Ramage: grandson, Harold Betham. Orchestra numbers: Bridal Veil, Boys in Blue, "The mambers of the orchestra were: Herbert Pery, L. Dunn, Edwin Gustaffson and Miss Alice Ramage, ac- companist. The decorating commtitee wero Mrs. Ralph H, Meler, Mrs. J. Y. Miller and Mrs. Gessmer; suppe® com- Mrs. Alvert Kellogg het Sunday school class at :m cake lett’s,. Wednesday. Ica unM;r ‘were lemonade and e lunch at mogn. The little girls games and went in n-xmnung AMrs. Charles vmnl beautifully decorated living weye gerved sandwiches, cake, - cobkles, ice cream and In the center of the table was a large birth- @ay cake with the right number of light- e&c.andk& Miss Tibbets received many gifts, i The condition of Daniel Sullivan, whe suffered a_broken hip August T, i8 Dot as favorabie as it has been. _ LISBON Sunday morning a thunder shower wal coming up during the opening church ser vice and the storm broke just as the pas- tor was about to announce his text. Ht af mittee, Mrs. John Botham, Mrs. Rob- | fematked that he hoped the congregation ert Chapel, Mrs, J. Y. Miller, Mre. | Were all content, as his text was thost Gessner, Mrs. Hewitt and Mrs. Ryer | ¥ords of St. Paul, I have leaymed iz Mrs. Annie Newton and Mrs. French had charge of the caké table, Mrs. Roscoe Dark, of the candy table, the fancy work being in charge of Mrs. Albert Avery and Mrs. John Lathrop. Mrs. Os- car Church was at the ice cream booth and Mrs, Andrew Johnsdn and Mrs, Vie- tor Rosenlund had charge of the lem- onade. Miss Quidgeon of Mohegan told the fortunes of many of the young peo- ple About $178 was realized from the fair. Rev. George E. Congden of Graston, Vt, will preach Sunday next at the Union Baptist church as a_candidate. Mr. and Mrs. Jokn Freeland of Suf- field motored here Sunday to visit Mr and Mrs, F. J. Hope, Miss Grace Hooper left this week to visit her niece, Mrs. Phinney, of Port- land, Maine. Miss Addie Johnson has returned to her home in Hartford after a visit with her parents. whatsoevér state<]I am therewith to be content. The church was decorated wity beautiful dahlias in separate bouquets of peony flowered, cactus and single varie ties, grown Ly the pastoy. The Sunday school picnic is to bs held Saturday afternoon, Aug. 20, om the cgurch green. Mr. and Mrs. Ransom Read and Mist Beatrice Read of Jewett City wers vis itors Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. W. A Read. Albert Browning fo Mounl Vernon, Ia, is the guest of his grandniece, Miss Mar- tie Barber. F. H Palmer and Miss. Alix le spent Wednesday F. E. Hyde's. - Ruth Sellew of Hartford if e week with friends in town here is but little naying re- , but The hay erop hag ‘much difficulty, owin Mrs. sses Miriam and Elsie Church a mber of cloudy an Mis: rothy Church have returned from Mason'$ Island. Mrs. Lyman Kenyon recently return ed to Norwich after spemding a we with Mrs. Thomas Gough. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Latimer of Pleas- ure Beach were callers in town Monday. Raymond Shahan is employed at the cast is that molten on coeling, Thus which are alwayf how Aa\al varieties in size, whick do not. 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