THE STORY OF THE NONPARTISAN LEAGUE 



Meantime the farmer's account would look 

 like this : 



One car No. 1 Northern at 90^ cents $ 905 



One car No. 2 at 88 880 



One car No. 3 at 85 850 



One car Rejected at 79 790 



One car No Grade at 75 750 



Total $4,175 



Less commission 50 



$4,125 

 Less freight at 16 cents a cwt 480 



$3,645 

 Less switching charges, whether any 

 were actually paid or not 7 . 50 



Net receipts $3,638.50 



If the wheat when he sold it had been 

 graded as it was when it passed out of the 

 terminal elevator he would have received 

 $4,550, less commission and switching charge. 



After the Great War began, wheat prices 

 rose, particularly in the seasons when the 

 farmers had disposed of their grain; but 

 labor and the prices of necessaries rose like- 

 wise, so that the margin for the farmer, except 

 at rare intervals, remained about the same. 

 In 1917 a group of representative farmers 

 in North Dakota worked out the acre cost 

 of raising wheat as follows: 



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