ADVOCATE AND GUIDE. 



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The foregoing table shows a decreased value following an 

 icreased acreage, yield per acre or total production over 

 that of the year before or the year following. Thus : 



TABLE II. 



A summary of the above pairs show that by increasing 

 the acreage, or the yield, or both, there was raised 605,080,000 

 bushels more in nine years than in the others, while the 

 wheat growers received $281,157,000 less. That is, they 

 not only raised and gave away free that many bushels of 

 wheat, but had to take that many dollars less for raising it, 

 as compared with the smaller crops. In other words, the 

 wheat growers actually paid over 46 cents a bushel for the 

 joy of raising 605,060,000 to donate to the public. No 

 wonder so many went bankrupt. They could not afford 

 such generosity. Nor did they get a " thank you" for it, 

 nor a five-cent article free on account of it. Now, that is not 

 good business. 



Union city labor has found by experience that it is more 

 to their interest to shorten the day and increase the pay. 

 Eight hours a day at 75 cents an hour is preferred to twelve 

 at 40 cents. The wheat raiser should follow their example 

 and unionize and elect an executive board to direct them. 



You have lost hundreds of millions of dollars by not un- 

 ionizing, and will lose billions more if you do not. You 

 ought to be able to see that it will pay big to unionize. 



