BUREAU OF STATISTICS. 719 



Comparative prices of articles purchased by farmers in 1909 and 1899 — Continued. 



Article. 



Harrows, ordinary, each dollars. 



Manure spreaders, each do . . . 



Mowers, each do . . . 



Picks, each cents. 



Plows, turning, each dollars. 



Scythes, each cents. 



Saddles, each dollars. 



Tedders, each do. . . 



Wagons, single, each do. . . 



Wagons, double, each do. . . 



Carbolic acid, crude, pound cents. 



Copperas, pound do. . . 



Lime, barrel dollars. 



Paris green, pound cents. 



Sulphur, f)ound do. . . 



Witch-hazel , pint bottle do. . . 



Baskets, one-naif bushel, each do. .. 



Milk cans, 10-gallon, each dollars. 



Milk pails, each cents. 



Paints, ready mixed, gallon dollars. 



Paint brushes, each cents. 



Rope, hemp, pound do. . . 



Sacks, grain, each do. . . 



Scales, small, each dollars. 



Twine, binder, 100 pounds do. . . 



Average, all articles. 



1909. 



10.49 

 103. 33 

 47.23 

 70.7 

 11.45 

 86.0 

 16.56 

 29.4 

 47.45 

 68.83 

 35.0 

 10.0 



1.29 

 30.5 



8.5 

 25.0 

 51.2 



2.68 

 37.7 



1.62 

 76.3 

 13.6 

 18.0 



1.04 



9.74 



112.1 



The quantity of articles specified which could be purchased with 

 the value of 1 acre of corn and wheat, respectively, in 1909 and 

 1899, was as foUows: 



Quantity purchasable by value of 1 acre. 



