30 THE FARMER OF TO-MORROW 



hundred and forty million bushels. The price 

 fell to thirty-eight cents. 



The next year she grew two hundred and 

 seventy million. The price rose to fifty-five 

 cents. 



If she grew five hundred millions as she 

 could the price would go to twenty cents, 

 on the same basis of calculating. 



Fifty-five-cent corn paid the farmers $148,- 

 000,000. 



Thirty-eight-cent corn paid them $129,- 

 000,000. 



Twenty-cent corn would pay them $100,- 

 000,000! 



And, the freight on twenty-cent corn is 

 the same as the freight on dollar corn. No, 

 the so-called intelligent culture is no more use 

 to Jeremiah than his boot-straps would be to 

 pull him out of the mire. Until the world 

 is hungry enough to finance Jeremiah; or 

 until the middle-men give him more than 

 thirty-five cents of the consumer's dollar, text- 

 book farming will remain a dogma and nothing 

 more. 



A thousand, or a hundred thousand, farmers 

 may dabble in it, providing they have enough 

 capital because this efficiency engineering 



